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]
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Maybe the LL at 505 could try not to rent to a bunch of scumbags on Welfare and Section 8 – oh he can’t do that – Wilhelm Diblasio made that against the law.
I wouldn’t care if I got frisked, if I were innocent of any crimes…
I did – drive by at night- I put in 17 lights and 32 cameras it has helped a lot- but not enough the cops know whos dealing which apts etc etc but dont do anything
I wonder how many of those innocent ‘people of color” who are being “harrassed” would actually instead be DEAD if the NYPD hadnt reduced homicides by over 75% in the last 15 years.
It might suck to get frisked – but its far worse to get shot.
I’m not really so sure more Black cops would be better. I’m a black man who owns a home in Landmarked Fort Greene. I have been harassed on several occasions by black officers in the 88th. These black officers act more like overseers than officers.
To borrow from KRS-One, Sound Of Da Police..
Yeah, officer from overseer
You need a little clarity?
Check the similarity!
The overseer rode around the plantation
The officer is off patroling all the nation
The overseer could stop you what you’re doing
The officer will pull you over just when he’s pursuing
The overseer had the right to get ill
And if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill
The officer has the right to arrest
And if you fight back they put a hole in your chest!
There are crimes like this that happen all the time in Brooklyn, 1:06.
You are dellusional to think people would leave because of one incident.
Someone was murdered in Carroll Gardens a couple months ago. Homes (as we saw yesterday) are still selling for 3 million.
Murder in Boreum Hill last week. Neighborhood seems fine to me.
to the landlord who owns the buildings on that corner — why not install bright exterior lights and leave them on at night — there’s one thing you can do.
Oh BTW!! Hey Brownstoner tell the wonderful people of this blog why you are so concerned with this shooting! I think you left out that very important piece of information.
The What
Someday this war is gonna end….
if you guys think a violent crime against a white person is going to get the police to do something you are dreaming. The only thing it will do is cause a mass migration out of the area. Who the hell want to live like that? You will see the prices drop 20 percent easy within 24 hours of a bad incident. would you really leave your kids in an area like this