Drive by his biological needs, yet still the NYPost show no mercy for this candle thief. Tsk Tsk.

Just last week we were educated by NYC state representative Emily Gallaher that shoplifting for ‘biological need’ is OK. Despite that, the cruel editors of the NY Post persist in their calls for punishment f these unfortunate people:

150 arrests and he still walks: How NY laws push criminals to grow worse

Meet career crook Shaquan Seth, cut loose last week after five, count ’em five, shoplifting busts in Queens — less than six days after he got out of Rikers after a five-month stint for previous thievery — because New York law forbids cash bail for offenses like Seth’s. 

No matter that he was no sooner back on the streets than he was eagerly reoffending, nor that he stole $600 worth of fancy candles, when the no-bail believers insist such theft is mostly out of need, like Jean Valjean. 

No matter that he threatened to shoot a young female clerk who was brave enough to try stopping him.

He was put right back on the street. 

But that’s what our “reformed” laws encourage: years of offending and reoffending as the perp gradually works his way up from petty crime to homicide. 

Seth has already done jail time for larceny, robbery, resisting arrest and assaulting a cop; it’s clear he has much worse in him than candle theft. 

He belongs in prison (or, conceivably, locked up in a mental institution).