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]
Hear, hear 12:27!! You hit the nail on the head.
I love how the posters here are saying the police dont do anything…..
Yet I have to wonder what you want the police to do…..
Because right now “the community” (probably not the same as posting here) is screaming that the police are too involved with the community – doing too much stop and frisk, to much patrols in ‘certain neighborhoods’ etc…..
So what should the police do? Just walk around, you think thats going to stop crime – it wont – thats what was done in the 70’s – beat cops could just walk/drive around. Cant be everywhere at once so if everyone knows that the police arent going to make arrests – its simply a matter of waiting till they walk away….
So what should the police do? When they see activity that is consistent with drug dealing should they stop and question people? Well then isnt it only fair (and smart) to allow those same police, whose lives are actually at risk, to frisk this person to make sure no weapon is available? And guess what you (and “the community”) is going to scream when after this encounter when no arrest is made – “racial discrimination”.
So what should the police do? they are damned if they do, and damned if they dont – all for 31K and the risk of being hurt or killed.
Come on with some of these coments about the police giving a tough time to these teens…
Maybe some of these kids should not be walking around with DORAGS and Size XXXXL shirts and shady heavy coats and jeans down to their knees…
What are the cops supposed to think? “Oh here is a lovely boy how can I help you son”
Come on get with it…
“I don’t know what planet you live on but I live in AMERICA! The place of the most vile racism on this planet. Example Obama is the best candidate we have but, people will not vote for him because he’s BLACK! All that crap you saying Brownstoner is all good in a perfect world but at the end of the day RACISM rules America. Cops shoot a unarmed man 50 times and I didn’t see white people being enraged about it! I didn’t see you post that on here! My opinion is you knew the passion when you posted this garbage on this blog!!”
First of all, you’ve obviously not been watching the news on the Obama front. The only place in the country where what you said might be true, is in WV.
Dude, look at the f ucking pictures in the paper of the locked arms protesting the Shawn Bell decision. White, Black, Brown… EVERYONE. If you want to read about more NYC issues, read gothamist.
and check your shi.t before you make blanket statements.
“I don’t know what planet you live on but I live in AMERICA! The place of the most vile racism on this planet. Example Obama is the best candidate we have but, people will not vote for him because he’s BLACK! All that crap you saying Brownstoner is all good in a perfect world but at the end of the day RACISM rules America. Cops shoot a unarmed man 50 times and I didn’t see white people being enraged about it! I didn’t see you post that on here! My opinion is you knew the passion when you posted this garbage on this blog!!”
First of all, you’ve obviously not been watching the news on the Obama front. The only place in the country where what you said might be true, is in WV.
Dude, look at the f ucking pictures in the paper of the locked arms protesting the Shawn Bell decision. White, Black, Brown… EVERYONE. If you want to read about more NYC issues, read gothamist.
and heck your shi.t before you make blanket statements.
The What is a realtor in Lodi, New Jersey.
This has already been proven as fact. He likes to scare people in Brooklyn in the hope that they will want to leave and move to the burbs.
I thought we all knew this already…
The funny thing Brownstoner You took down my posts. You are a funny dude homeboy! If I overpaid the the Ghetto, I would be very worried too. Wait until the crash, you have seen nothing yet!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
oh, come now, guys n gals…T’What just learned some new terms and he want to try them out. He’s a very big fan of cognitive dissonance. He uses that one every chance he gets!
T’What lives the way he wants to live. I think we should give him a pat on the back for trying to express his frustrations in (relatively) complete thoughts. And he has a point: he lives in the ghetto and ghetto things ought to continue going down there. I am sure he’s much happier that way. It probably makes him misty-eyed for his childhood-lum days.
“You only care about the value of your house and the Gentrification of urban neighborhoods!”
Actually someone who only cares about the value of their home would not post about a shooting a few blocks from their home.