Another Shooting on Grand and Putnam
[nggallery id=”21402″ template=galleryview] This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at…
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This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at around 10:30 and sprayed an empty parked car with bullets, and in the process hit a female “innocent bystander” in the leg. She was reportedly not killed but, as the photos show, she lost some blood; as you can also see, a number of bullet holes are visible in the side of the building. As most people in the neighborhood are aware, this corner has been a hotbed of illegal activity for years. Two summers ago, after a young man was murdered for saying something insulting about another man’s girlfriend, the block was put on lock-down for the summer, which did temporarily push the drug activity a block or two away—not exactly an ideal solution for the people who lived on those blocks. In the community meetings that always follow, the police act sympathetic and talk about how difficult it is to put drug dealers away, but at a certain point it all rings hollow. If this were happening on the Upper East Side, you can be sure it would have been shut down long ago.
Turning Up The Pressure on Grand and Putnam [Brownstoner]
Murder on Putnam: Will The Cops Show Up Now? [Brownstoner]
2:04 – you cant ‘fudge’ a dead body – homicide numbers are accurate – and down 75% in the last 15years – somebody must be doing something right.
Landlord, Send the tapes to any of the countless investigative reporters who want to break the next big story. The 6 pm news and the papers love to tell stories about how you brought the cops and the politicians the evidence, were ignored, and then some innocent woman was shot. This is your chance.
1:55 you are correct – all those things can be done better – but if you think some 30K a year guy (black or white) is going to be forming “relationships” in a community that had a creed of “stop snitchin” or where a (tragic) mistake will result in reflexive calls for CRIMINAL MURDER charges then I can sell you back that bridge.
I’m white – I’m not a cop – in my interactions cops are very often condescending and arrogant – guess why I am not “outraged” – 1. B/c I recognize who is going to be attracted to being a cop (hint – cops are the same virtually everywhere in the world) and 2. and MOST IMPORTANT – I dont have to have that much interaction with cops b/c only a very very small number of people around me are criminals.
Instead of the “stop snitching” creed – if you really want to avoid the police – how about this creed – “stop shooting each other”
Undermanned, underpaid officers could care less about crime in the community. They are just trying to make it back to the suburbs at the end of the day. Why cameras arent being used befuddles me.As for crime in general, all neighborhoods are affected. Some might be swept under the rugs and coded as misdemeanors for statistical purposes.This allows the pct commander and the dept as a whole to appear as though they are doing their job and thus makes the Bloomberg administration look good also.Just as you wont hear of this shooting in the news,you wont hear about alot of other crimes in certain neighborhoods. Those pct commanders sit on their duffs, fudging numbers to look good and be promoted or to keep the dept chiefs off their case.Things wont change until the community calls in the news and stages protests.Community meetings are just a forum for the pct commanders to schmooze the residents for the night until the next meeting.Until noise is made with a tv crew present, the community will continue to be given the number to headquarters.Everyone passes the buck.
The residents of the neighborhood have to clean up the neighnborhood themselves. that’s how it happened in Stuyvesant Heights and other parts of Bed Stuy.. Someone made a remark a few weeks ago that went something like this… The people moving in don’t start the gentrification it’s the people already there who start the process so that others start to move in. It’s a very difficult process to start but the residents of the blocks have to be motivated to take control. I saw it happen in Chicago back in the 70s and 80s…it works.
I think Chicago had more proactive councilmen and police precincts though!!!!
“There aren’t any 1.3, 1.5, 2.0 million brownstones in bed Stuy. A few have sold for 800k + and maybe one or two over $900k and then the one at 404 Stuyvesant for maybe $1.15??…they are all within a 5 block radius of Fulton Park between Lewis & Stuyvesant…this corner is pretty far away from there.”
Oh no Dave, no one was talking about Bed Stuy!
Hey where is Landlord505 huh, No responce, huh. *Crickets*……
Boy I love the convenience of this Blog. Just one big circle jerk!
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Someday this war is gonna end…
nosleeptil – did you call the DAs office to say the cops werent being responsive? Try calling the DA himself – he is up for re-election you know
“Do you have any idea how you “target the people at the top” – 1st you need the cooperation of the people underneath – and you get that by stopping, questioning and arresting them and then trying to ‘flip’ them. You cant just prosecute someone b/c “everyone in the community knows” he’s a bad guy. – BTW that whole “stop snitchin” thing really helps your “target the top” strategy.”
Yeah. Stop and question the RIGHT people. The people who are involved with gangsters – the ones everyone in the community knows about – are the people who should be questioned. These people are quite different from the law-abiding folks in the neighborhood, and people who are in the neighborhood on a regular basis can tell the difference. By patrolling the neighborhood on foot and forming relationships with and getting to know people in the community, cops will figure this out, too. I’m not saying this will make everything perfect, but cops would have a better idea of who to go after if they do the legwork first. Furthermore, honest people will begin to help the cops if they feel that can have confidence in them. That won’t be accomplished by dismissive and condescending police officers and commanders who ignore community complaints.
However in the interest of disclosure – it does look like the 2007 class had 53% whites –
http://www.thechief-leader.com/news/2008/0104/news/005.html