A neighborhood in Queens, New York swarming with shoplifters, prostitutes, and other illegal activity has gotten even worse, The New York Post reports. A strip of Roosevelt Avenue near 91st Street in Jackson Heights has become overrun with hookers and thieves who threaten store owners, locals told the news outlet. 

Jesus Diaz, manager of Bravo Supermarket, told the Post, “It’s getting worse. It used to be when we catch them stealing, they saying,’Oh, I’m sorry, please, I’ll never do it again.’ 

“Now,” he said, “They’re getting angry. They’re trying to punch you, telling you, ‘You’re going to have a problem,’ telling you, ‘We’re coming back and you’re going to have some real trouble.'” Diaz added, “You call and tell the cops that you caught them stealing and that you’re holding them waiting for them and the cops, they don’t even want to come, they don’t want to arrest these people.” 

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