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]
Your right 12:50 you didnt use the word “innocent” – you used the term “law-abiding” – since they are synonymous I stick to my original point
Brownstoner –
Why do you refer to the person shot as an “innocent bystander” in quotes? As I understand English usage, that would imply that you question her innocence in being shot – and I can’t imagine that’s what you meant to imply.
Is this a case of (1) petty ignorant nastiness or (2) misused quotes on your part?
Just curious.
“Most regular readers know we live on this block…if propping up the value of our house were our motivation, why in the world would we draw attention to violent crime down the block?”
Awwwww Brownstoner.. Come here let me give you a hug, awwww there there now……. Tell Uncle What what happen, awwwww.
The What
Someday this war is going to end….
If you don’t want blowback, don’t post BS like this!
Not a cop and here is one citation:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-07-18-815031511_x.htm
Diversity on the police force is “necessary to serve a diverse community. It builds trust,” said Deputy Inspector Martin Morales, head of the NYPD’s Recruitment Section.
One goal was to make the force mirror the city it serves. Officials say that over the past five years, about 35 percent of applicants have been white, 28 percent Hispanic and 27 percent black — a breakdown nearly matching that of the city overall. A 2005 academy class became the first that was less than half white.
The current force overall is about 55 percent white, 24 percent Hispanic, 16 percent black and 4 percent Asian.
low blow- the tenants who are dealing and using are long term tenants – most of them have been there from the 70s- the 4 buildings have 132 apartments so i need 32
cameras
LL505 – what can they do? They need a Search Warrant – to get that they need a cooperator – to get that you have to stop/frisk and arrest people who they believe are coming to buy drugs – except that gets them criticized.
Then if they get the warrant and anything goes wrong – they are blamed.
And if everything goes right and they get the warrant and make an arrest or 2, the drug dealers just setup shop in another apartment and the people who are arrested only face a 50/50 shot of getting any punishment anyway.
I am a small town girl transplant to Brooklyn. In my six years here I have heard many shootings, tried to stop a fight on the train, interrupted a robbery on my corner and have stopped to ask many women if they are ok with the man grabbing their arm and yelling at them.
I can accept that these things happen here but I will not let them go. If you put it on the street, you make it my business weather I happen to be in Clinton Hill, the UES or another country. We ALL deserve a safe place to live and we should ALL be fighting to make it one.
No more “well, stupid what do you expect in that neighborhood” type comments please. Shrugging your shoulders is not an appropriate response!
1:04 PM:
12:50 #1 here. Who said anyone was “innocent”? I never used that word. I’m pretty sure you are a cop. You sure sound like one. Entitled, obstinate, not willing to look beyond your own purview. Why would the community protest a cop being shot by a criminal? Cops are SWORN to take those risks….that’s their job! They are supposed to face these risks. Everyone knows criminals shoot at cops. But cops ARE NOT supposed to shoot people who have not committed crimes. The fact that it happens SO OFTEN to people of color has led some to protest and ask why this happens so frequently.
As I mentioned previously, a big part of the “stop snitchin'” attitude goes back to the police. Why cooperate with someone who disdains you, harrasses you and thinks everyone in your community is a crook? Look at what happened with Mr. Brownstoner when he complained. The cops ignored him. If he were black, they’d liklely have told him “What do you expect? You live in the ghetto.”
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.
And you still do not address the scarcity of people of color in the upper ranks. Wasn’t it this past weekend when some beat cop confronted a top black chief becuause the cop perceived that person to be part of “the community” and thus potentially a criminal?
This is the attitude that will be changed when more people of color are on the police force and in its upper ranks and fewer nervous rookies from outside of the community are stationed in what they perceive as “the ghetto.”
32 cameras???
jeez.
a little overkill?