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NYPD raids counterfeit market on Canal
I sat on this, but still wanted to add it to the collection of posts on this never-ending topic. Read on, but know that it did nothing. The sellers — and buyers, I will add! — are as dense as ever along Broadway, Canal and Lispenard.
The NYPD pulled off a raid on the Canal Street counterfeit market in late June, seizing an estimated $151 million worth of goods — that is if that merchandise was real. (Obviously a truck load of the fakes are worth a lot less.) Officers gathered up goods on the street and loaded them bag-by-bag onto a flatbed truck. According to The Post, 17 people were arrested and charged with trademark counterfeiting – a felony — and the NYPD also seized $145,000 in cash.
There were simultaneous raids in Soho and Chelsea the same day.
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I wonder how many millions of dollar NYC spends to have the police do these raids and daily sweeps with basically no results.
I have personally spoken with the police and they are doing everything they can, and I see their daily sweeps, but the laws basically are a revolving door allowing the sellers to get their goods back and sell the next day – even after the sweeps.
For those that are more knowledgeable, is there any chance NYC actually changes the laws so that the police can do more?
Fat chance of any pro-policing laws changing under the current clown of a mayor and city council. They’re anti law enforcement.
As of this morning, the entire west side of Canal and Broadway is full swamped with illegal vendors, so that raid last month didn’t appear to do anything.
Nothing is going to change here unless the city gets serious about prosecuting these vendors and instructs the cops to shut this illegal market down *every day.* Just doing sweeps a few times a year is nothing more than a minor inconvenience to them. The vendors get released the same day and are right back the following morning.