Posted on 04/15/2006 4:55:52 PM PDT by floridaobserver
The four teenaged punks who chased an NYU student into the path of an oncoming car looked and laughed as he lay on the street dying, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "They didn't call for an ambulance. They didn't call for help. Rather, they stood on the street corner and laughed," prosecutor Joel Seidemann said of the 13- and 15-year-olds who chased Broderick John Hehman into traffic.
Hehman, 20, died four days later from his massive head injuries.
And the wolf-pack thugs, who allegedly laid in wait for their victim, could have even more to smile about now. Prosecutors lost their bid to try the teens as adults yesterday when their cases were transferred to Manhattan Family Court - where they face about half as much time behind bars if convicted of the top charge against them, felony murder.
Had they been tried as adults, the 15-year-olds would have faced nine years to life behind bars. Now, they face a maximum of five years in "restrictive placement," said Laurence Busching, head of the city Law Department's family court division.
If they're convicted of the lesser charges against them, including manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, they could get off with as little as 18 months in juvenile detention.
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the most ghetto chains
A somewhat defunct ghetto chain -- Luther's. I believe the last one standing is down by the Fulton Mall.
Of course, this isn't a "Hate" crime. The victim was likely white.
True, there are even black Mexicans and Colombians as well. I was just suggesting that they aren't necessarily all black.
There are so many mixed heritage people in a place like NYC, simple visual categories like "black" and "white" don't always apply.
I'm thinking Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter --
Half my family was stealing clothes, the other half tailoring them...
Was he the guy who talked through his nose, or was that Horshack?
Juan Epstein was the kid with the fro.
Juan wasn't in school yesterday because he was sick, signed, Epstein's mother.
What happened to cool shows with real teens, like WBK, "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and "Head of the Class"? All the shows now are about plastic, sex-obsessed, rich brats.
Cable television happened.
Not as ghetto as Homeboy 2000, formerly located on the corner of Fordham Road and Webster Avenue!
Do live soup turtles in washington heights count?
Wait, wait, I got a better one -- Queenie's Fried Chicken, Pitkin Avenue in East New York or Coney Island Joe's on Penn, in E NY.
I still miss the place that sold live rabbits and pigeons on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx. Its now a pizzeria!
There was an excellent bakery on the corner -- can't remember the cross street on Arthur. Haven't been there in years. But great pastries.
There also used to be a place up there that sold pigeons for the "pigeon game," which isn't played much anymore.
When you are not being assaulted and robbed by criminals it is the apparatchiks and police that are taking your money.
EVERYBODY that owns a car in NYC has had it broken into at least twice.
Most crimes are not even reported, if you can get the police to show up at all.
I had an armed robbery go down in front of my house with 5 blacks in a car drag my neighbor out of his car window and drive away. hitting my car in the process and firing 2 shots.
There must have been 25 diferent people repeatedly calling 911.
The cops did not show up for over 5 hours.
Some weekends you have 15 or 16 murders.
April 16, 2006 -- Two brothers who were shot defending their Brooklyn shop from a pair of stick-up men were busted for returning fire with an illegal handgun, police sources said.
The gunfight erupted at 7:40 p.m. Friday when the two bandits, entered Vinnie's Style, a clothing boutique on Flatbush Avenue.
One of the pair allegedly fired a .45-caliber pistol when the brothers, Paul and Jacob Parris, refused to get down.
Both were charged with weapons possession when cops learned the Parris' used an unlicensed 9mm pistol in the shootout, sources said. Philip Messing
Amid overall drop in crime, NYC murder rate creeps up
Saturday, December 20, 2003 Posted: 2:18 PM EST (1918 GMT)
Diane Jordan holds a photo of her daughter Chantel Bailey, who was killed at 17 by a misdirected bullet.
Diane Jordan holds a photo of her daughter Chantel Bailey, who was killed by a misdirected bullet when she was 17 years old .
NEW YORK (AP) -- When city officials brag about how crime has declined in America's largest city, the temper of one Brooklyn mother rises.
"I don't know where they're living," Diane Jordan says. "Not here."
Ten months ago, her 17-year-old daughter, Chantel Bailey, was shot twice in the chest as an innocent bystander to a meaningless dance-floor dispute. Three other teens and a bouncer were wounded. None knew their assailants.
The tragedy dramatizes a fact that has put some tarnish on the city's sterling crime-fighting reputation: Murders are on pace to creep up this year.
The increase, though slight, would be only the third in the last 12 years. A handful of neighborhoods have been especially hard hit, including one in Queens with an increase of more than 100 percent.
Police officials and experts -- who view homicide as the most reliable and telling of the major crime statistics -- insist there is no cause for alarm.
"Overall, everyone should breathe a sigh of relief," said Eli Silverman, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "If anything, the (police) department is fighting its own success."
Even with a rise in murders, the rate should still end up below 600 for the second straight year -- a far cry from the record 2,245 homicides recorded in 1990. In 2002, the city had 584 homicides; there were 567 through December 14 this year, the latest count available.
Overall serious crime -- including assaults, robberies and rape -- is down 6 percent this year. Sharp declines over the past decade have outpaced other urban areas, and made New York the safest it has been since the 1960s.
Touting the numbers has become a year-end ritual for City Hall and the police department.
At a recent news conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the record on crime as "a major factor in why the Big Apple is coming back." The NYPD's Web boasts that the department is "the nation's leading crime fighter."
But critics contend crime-statistic politics glosses over the rise in violence in poor neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and elsewhere.
In a precinct that covers the Jamaica section of Queens, murders were up 133 percent through mid-December, from 12 to 28. Another precinct in Brooklyn saw a 24 percent rise, from 25 to 31, the most of any of the city's precincts.
People there "don't want to hear about how good the stats are," said Charles Barron, a Brooklyn city councilman. "They want to be safe."
Bailey became a 2003 homicide statistic while minding her own business.
On the night of her death, the young woman who loved to shop for clothes and dreamed of going to college in Georgia was given permission to stay out late at a Valentine's Day party.
"She should have been able to go there and come home safely," Jordan, 41, said while sitting in a cramped apartment decorated with a stuffed tiger on the television and a poster of Martin Luther King on the kitchen wall.
Instead, as Bailey was about to leave the party, the gunfire erupted. She fell as frantic guests fled, overturning chairs and tables along the way.
The shooter was a party-goer who was trying to shoot someone who had insulted him, authorities said. He and another man were arrested and charged with murder.
Now Jordan, a transit worker, fears for the safety of her teenage son. She has given him a cell phone so she can keep tabs on him. She also dreams of finding her family a new home.
"I really want to get out New York," she said.
In jail, these kids will learn whatever they don't already know about viciousness and murder, and they'll be heroes, too. When they're eventually freed, they'll just pick up where they left off.
Although there are no formal charges, the allegations have prompted a vigorous defense by lawyers for lacrosse team members and have divided the Duke campus and the Durham community over nearly every aspect of the case, including the credibility of the woman who brought the accusation.
Lawyers for the players cite results of court-ordered tests that showed that no DNA from team members was found on the woman. They also cite 911 recordings that describe the woman as passed out and drunk. They say her condition at the time would affect her ability to identify the men she says attacked her.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and police insisted early on that they had evidence of a crime, including a medical exam reporting injuries consistent with sexual assault. Nifong says he believes the woman, whose account is the heart of the evidence revealed so far.
Adding further divisiveness is that the woman is black, and she has accused three white men. That has drawn race, class and privilege into the debate.
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Notice how the racial angle is always clearly identified in the media when it is a supposed black victim. She was ostensbily raped with no dna evidence, but this white man was definitely murdered. Which has gotten more publicity?
Although there are no formal charges, the allegations have prompted a vigorous defense by lawyers for lacrosse team members and have divided the Duke campus and the Durham community over nearly every aspect of the case, including the credibility of the woman who brought the accusation.
Lawyers for the players cite results of court-ordered tests that showed that no DNA from team members was found on the woman. They also cite 911 recordings that describe the woman as passed out and drunk. They say her condition at the time would affect her ability to identify the men she says attacked her.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and police insisted early on that they had evidence of a crime, including a medical exam reporting injuries consistent with sexual assault. Nifong says he believes the woman, whose account is the heart of the evidence revealed so far.
Adding further divisiveness is that the woman is black, and she has accused three white men. That has drawn race, class and privilege into the debate.
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Notice how the racial angle is always clearly identified in the media when it is a supposed black victim. She was ostensbily raped with no dna evidence, but this white man was definitely murdered. Which has gotten more publicity?
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