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]
I have tried to be a community activist. I attended a meeting organized by the DA’s office where members of the community could inform on criminal activities. We had spreadsheets tracking the various dealers, where they did business, what they looked like. Did the officers from our precinct show up?
No.
We are trapped between the drug dealers and the cops who can’t be bothered to help us. And then people who have more money, blame us for for being so stupid as to not make enough money to live in Park Slope.
We work hard. We don’t need boutiques and sushi bars. We just need someone to show up when we try to hold up our end of the social contract.
To the people who think they should grab flashlights and vests!
I am not sure where you people came from but I would like to give you a little advice. You do not want to try and mess with what is going on on a hot corner in such a way. I am not sure you realize the backlash that will happen. Those people have ZERO to lose except that corner. You should be more creative and remember that they were there before you. Goodluck and walk around the area before you buy next time
The Baltimore police force is mostly non-white and has been for many years.
Doesn’t seem to have much of a difference…
Here you go – 2006 class -also majority NON-WHITE
http://www.thechief-leader.com/news/2007/0105/news/005.html
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.
I guess some people should consider organizing community protests and marches against crime instead of flea markets. That would seem to be a priority to me.Do not try to make it one now because a shooting occured in your neighborhood.
Doesn’t really matter what the reason for “not snitchin’ is – if the police haven’t got that information they can’t do much unless they are actually there when the crime happens.
“Not snitchin” is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Seconding Johnife’s comment about getting frisked. My husband is English, and the last time they did it they asked where he was from and when he said “England” they went “England huh? Didn’t you guys pull out of Iraq…?” AND? A bored cop is not someone you want bothering you.
Actually 1:38 – I wasnt “trying” anything just addressing your point @ 1:17 where you said:
“Please forward statistics that back up you claim that “the majority of rookies are non-white, and the overall %s match NYC population almost identically” because if you think I believe that, there’s abridge downtown I’d like to sell you.”
As my citation shows – the majority of the 2005 class was NON-WHITE….now about that bridge….