City Assigning Newbie Cops to Crime-Ridden Areas
Starting tomorrow, the NYPD is stationing 645 rookie cops in Brooklyn neighborhoods—including Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Flatbush and East New York—where shootings and robberies have increased over the past year. The new officers will be assigned to the neighborhoods for six-month terms, according to an article in today’s Daily News. East New York had the…
Starting tomorrow, the NYPD is stationing 645 rookie cops in Brooklyn neighborhoods—including Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Flatbush and East New York—where shootings and robberies have increased over the past year. The new officers will be assigned to the neighborhoods for six-month terms, according to an article in today’s Daily News. East New York had the highest number of murders of any neighborhood in the city last year (31); there was a 15 percent rise in burglaries in Crown Heights; deadly assaults in Brownsville increased by 27 percent; and the number of shooting victims in Bed-Stuy rose from 71 to 91. Some residents and politicians are questioning whether the stepped-up police force will only be a temporary Band-Aid or worse—completely ineffective. We don’t need more cops, we need more jobs, recreational centers and parks,” said City Councilman Charles Barron. “You’ll have a bunch of rookies out in East New York, most of them white, scared to death and standing on our street corners with no knowledge of our communities.”
645 Rookie Cops to Hit High-Crime Streets [NY Daily News]
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Anyone who thinks a GED or a high school education can help you get by in this country is still living in the 1950’s!
Most Americans can’t get by because the majority of Americans are poorly educated, i.e. High Scool education or less.
Montrose: You are full of crap if you think it will take a loooooong time to the trash – i.e. criminals – to move out. (I never said working class people should be pushed out. You just made that assumption because it is the only one that fits into your extremely limited world view.)
This city has changed permanently and no one is willing to tolerate trash and trashy behavior any more.
The trash will be gone very quickly and the rest of us will benefit. And it is about time.
People like 4:16 (and my sheltered, 75 year old Republican Midwestern parents) go around convinced most of the population of the United States fit the profile of lazy, nonworking people like 4:16 describes. Because they are totally in denial of the truth, that most Americans DO work their asses off and still don’t make enough money. It’s not the 1950s. Simply working hard is not enough to own your home and send your kids to college anymore. Even solidly middle class profesional people can’t afford to pay for college. When not that long ago, even working class people could accomplish those goals. Polls show the great majority of Americans do not believe their children will have a better life than they did. That right there is the death of the American dream. But the Republicans still go on telling people to just work hard, and it will be enough.
Whatever, Rambo, now you are really starting to foam at the mouth. If you are waiting for the “scum” to be removed from anywhere in the city, you’ll be waiting a looonnngggg time. Last time I looked, the underclass still have rights. You may not like it, but we haven’t gotten to the point where we just round ’em up and move ’em out, quite yet.
You insist on equating poverty with laziness, lack of education with criminality, with no room for any other variables. While the above may be true for some, it is not true for all. This school of thought has been around as long as people have gathered in cities, and since we haven’t managed to figure out how to fix it since the dawn of civilization, what makes you think it’s going to be fixed now? Debtor’s prison and transporting people to Australia didn’t work, when people had less rights than they do now. What have you got?
As the Bible says, “the poor will always be with us.” I would prefer to at least try to do something positive, so there are less of them, rather than just push them around, and out of the way, until they decide to push back. If that’s my sermon from the pulpit, I can at least live with myself.
Montrose:
You habve no idea what you are talking about.
THey make horrible neighbors. THey don’t even care enough about themselves to get a job and stop sucking off the public tit.
You think they “make” a neighborhood?
THey need to get off their lazy asses, get jobs grow up and make a contribution.
You need to stop making excuses for the trash that still live in some areas of this city.
And when are you openning your doors to save them?????? God forbid you should put your house where you fat mouth is.
WHen you come down off YOUR pulpit, get a grip and get real. THey will be gone soon enough – either becasue the nabe gets too expensive, they go to jail, or they get killed engaging in criminal behavior.
I can’t wait for gentrification to clean this city of the lazy scum that still hide here.
Once again, you have no idea about what I do for the community, who I open my doors to, who, or what, my neighbors are, or what their situations in life are. You must have delusions of Diety, as you are very good at passing judgement. Last I believed, God was in the business of caring about people, not damning them for not meeting your standards.
The number of jobs one has is not an indicator of their laziness, or industry. No one has to prove anything to you or any one else. Who are you to decide who is “deserving”, or lazy, or “can’t keep up”?
And I love how you pull out the old, “if you care so much, why don’t you…..” open your house up, or give away all your money, or adopt all the homeless children, or some over the top unrealistic suggestion. Why don’t I? Because I can help more people as a homeowner and a viable community member, than I can as one of the homeless. What are you doing?
And I do care about the permanently unemployed for a number of reasons. First of all, because they are still human beings. Second of all because there but for the grace of God goes any of us, even you. Thirdly, because their problems are all of our problems as a society. Helping them helps us. What are you going to do? Put them on an ice floe? Ship them to camps? Send out death squads? Thank God we haven’t gotten to the point where we “get rid of them”. Perhaps we should think more about educating them instead of writing them off, giving them hope instead of the boot, and treating people with respect, instead of like they were roaches. Will all be helped? No. But some will, and that makes it worth it.
Those people make better neighbors than you, no matter how many degrees you have, or how much money you make, because when you’ve lost your empathy and capacity to care about people around you, you certainly don’t care about your neighborhood, you only care about yourself.
Montrose: You have every old lame excuse at the ready, don’t you.
If they need several jobs to get by shouldn’t be having kids.
You want to make excuses for the lazy and the unintelligent, then don’t complain when those same pieces of trash make your nabe less than safe and livable.
Life is hard. THat is reality. Making some lame excuse for people who can’t keep up doesn’t change the situation.
If you are sooooooo concerned about people losing thier ability to live in your nabe due to rising costs and gentrification, open up your house to everyone who needs a place to stay. (Here is where all of your excuses are going to come!)
Montrose, you are living in a la la land if you think anyone cares about the PERMANENTLY “unemployed.” They are uneducated and most likely have a criminal record – committing crimes against their own community.
WHen they leave, the whole city benefits. One of the reasons this city is experiencing a decrease in crime despite fewer cops and more people is that the trash that commit the crimes are either priced out or still in prison. And when that trash gets out, there old support system will have moved on to cheaper places so the crime follows them to teh new location.
Get your head out of the clouds, open your house to the ones you feel need it and let the rest of us enjoy the decreased crime rate and gentrification.
Hey Montrose everyone else has 2 jobs why can’t they. I had 3 myself when I wsa young. Its called stay in school, get educated and go work in McDonalds until you find something else.
Welfare… majority of these people are lazy leeches.
Someday this war is gonna end…
The person who ends his comments with above quote, I bet he’s a clueless loser. The person speaks without any kind of knowledege about anything. Hence..people like him are a big part of the problem.
And who are you, 3:59? I love it when people tell other people how they should live their lives. Blithly telling someone to get 3 jobs, or else they are lazy, certainly presumes a knowledge of someone’s situation, which you do not know. I would never presume to assume that everyone who is down and out is either a criminal to be, or a lazy bum. Nor would I assume that any difficulty they may have in getting a higher education is solely predicated on lazyness.
Working three jobs pretty much assures that someone will not be home much to raise those kids correctly. I suppose you would damn those parents for that too, and say that they shouldn’t be working so hard that they can’t take care of the kids. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
The real world is much more complicated than your magnanamous pronouncements. I’m not excusing anyone, I’m just realistic. If it were that simple, we’d have solved it already.