Posted on 12/30/2013 12:01:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
Year-end boasts by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that New York is the safest big city in America can ring hollow in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood where the cycle of violence, silence and retribution feels entrenched and where crime seems immune to strategies that have brought record lows across the city.
A burst of gunfire on neighborhood streets this past summer typified the frustrating cycle. A baby boy was struck in the head by a stray bullet and killed as he sat in his stroller. His father, who police believe was the intended target, refused to help police identify the gunman. […]
New York is on track to achieve another all-time low in homicides this year, and police department officials have credited initiatives targeting gangs and domestic violence with reducing murders across the five boroughs. The NYPD also has stood by its controversial strategy of systematically stopping and frisking young men to combat illegal gun possession. …
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I predict that by the time deBlase’s term is up there will be -382 murders in Rosenberg City...I mean NYC!
I don’t want to state the politically incorrect facts about the neighborhood so I will just say “diversity is our greatest strength........”
Within a few months crime will be back up where it was under david dinkins.
This idiot is going to stop “stop, question and frisk” and go easy on crime by those poor, downtrodden, ‘oppressed’ innocent trayvons.
Brownsville is one of the least diverse neighborhoods in NYC.
As well he should. "Stop, question and frisk" is a blatantly unconstitutional program.
That’s OK. Mayor Wilhelm will take care of it.
C’mon, East New York! You’re slipping.
Combine that statement with the ne Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program from HUD...shudder
Crime is down? Or,is reported crime down? Or perhaps the reporting of crime is down.
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