Double-Digit Increase in Clinton Hill Crime Rate
The Daily News reports that there’s been a big jump in crimes in Clinton Hill so far this year, a rise that’s partially being blamed on a lack of fresh blood at the local precinct. The NYPD has recorded a 24 percent increase in robberies and a 43 percent jump in car theft in Clinton…
The Daily News reports that there’s been a big jump in crimes in Clinton Hill so far this year, a rise that’s partially being blamed on a lack of fresh blood at the local precinct. The NYPD has recorded a 24 percent increase in robberies and a 43 percent jump in car theft in Clinton Hill compared to this time last year. While four officers were scheduled to leave the 88th Precinct this year, the station got no new officers from the graduating Police Academy class; an NYPD source told the paper that new recruits are being assigned to cover the Atlantic Terminal Mall rather than joining the precinct. “You get the feeling that [the attacks are] brazen, and people don’t think they will be caught,” said one resident. “If you had police either in their cars or walking up and down the street, it wouldn’t happen.” Councilperson Letitia James says the rise in crimes is “very, very scary,” and some residents are spearheading a letter-writing campaign to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly asking that the NYPD assign more officers to the neighborhood.
Clinton Hill Quaking in Crime Wave [NY Daily News]
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i think it’s too bad that everyone is calling one another names and diluting the issue. the real problem is that it’s not safe to walk around our beautiful neighborhood. a lot of us, black and white, really love it here. it doesn’t matter how we arrived – the point is, we live here now and the place we call home is becoming increasingly dangerous.
let’s turn our energy away from the negativity on this blog and devote it to a neighborhood watch or a keep the streets safe campaign. isn’t that more effective?
Check the crime stats for the hood lately… seems like they are on the way down again over the last 28 days. I think the Post is a day late and a dollar short on their story but who knows. I tend to find everything in there alarming and sensationalized because the media knows fear sells better than hope.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_088.shtml
If you are aware of your surroundings your, whether in Iraq or Brooklyn are likely to go down.. just remember that. Be alert… you’ll be fine in Clinton, Greene, the Slope or Bed Stuy (which by the way is also on the up and up). Sure it might slow down because of the economy but it won’t become a war zone overnight. Jeez… I’m a white dude and after reading these posts it’s abundantly clear that Clinton Hill is the new Fort Greene, which is the new Slope.
3:37/2:46:
Learn how to read? And the pot called the kettle what, again?
(ha!)
What I am saying is that this kind of talk about “those people” who “were here first” in that “unsafe neighborhood” is all about race. I am saying that you *didn’t* say black people. I’m saying you didn’t have to.
I read _you_ fine.
3:05 you need to learn how to read. I never said anything about black people that is your little adjective. Did you go to school in the Clinton Hill school district?
2:46
That’s a backward assessment of how race (codeword: safety) (codeword: they-were-here-first) works!
If there is any sweeping generalization to make about crime in terms of race, it is that you are probably much safer as a white person in a crowd of black people in an “iffy” neighborhood than you would be anywhere else for these reasons:
1. There are more cops in these “hoods-to-nabes” than many other places in the city.
2. And many black people (both rightly and wrongly) perceive that the cops do not give a damn if they kill one another, but that they’ll be in deep doo-doo if they touch one silky white hair on anyone’s white head.
This is not to say that black people are inherently any more violent than white people are. But it is true (as true as a generalization can be) that black people are more afraid of cops than white people are, and for good reasons.
Crimes like this are crimes of opportunity and happen in every neighborhood where there are plenty of opportunities. Even white ones. To turn this into a conversation about who-was-here-first and what is “safe” is to air your own racism. Black people have no inherent desire to take your stuff or hurt you, even if they also have less than you do.
Think about it. You have less stuff than the average billionaire. But you don’t go mugging the people on 5th avenue for their furs and whatnot, do you? Even if you covet these things, you do not just take them, and you don’t do this because you have something to lose.
Why, then, would you assume that black people have so much less to lose than you do that they will just take your stuff because of some primal need to right the big wrong of slavery or to take care of their “entitlement” or whatever?
I’m sorry but this is soooooo funny. When there is a report on crime in Bed-Stuy or Crown Heights it’s because they’re the ghetto; when it happens in Clinton Hill it’s because of its “large areas of quiet residential streets” and being “more picturesque” (as per commenter #2). Thanks for a good chuckle!!!
2:46: Another ridiculous assessment of how racism works!
If any sweeping generalization is to be made about this topic in terms of race (codeword: safety, codeword: they were here first), it is that you’re probably safer as a white person when you’re surrounded by black people in a black neighborhood.
In these turnaround neighborhoods like CH and BS, there are a lot more cops around
And many black people perceive (both rightly and wrongly) that they can do damage to one another until the cows come home, BUT taking a white person’s stuff or life or safety will lead to a strong police response.
Of course saying this leads to an assumption that black people are more violent than white people, which is something that you would really have to qualify. I have lived most of my (considerably long) adult life as a white person in a couple of black neighborhoods, and I don’t see any evidence for black people being more violent, or more likely to want to take your stuff. That’s just racist.
But I do see a lot of young black men hurting eachother. That is violence, and it is sad and scary to watch, but it doesn’t impact me on anything more than an existential level–they are not out to get me.
If the cops wouldve been more occupied to controll the homeless criminals from the project buildings around the corner rather than give tickets for idiotic reasons, crime wouldve shot down.
This ticket surge made cops forget their purpose.
A Hurt Clinton Hiller
1:11 I agree they should get jobs and people should not steal. However this hood has been like that for years. They were there first and the newer people assumed the risk by buying in such an iffy hood. Anybody who moved there with a young family not think of saftey is foolish. This area is more suitable for a young male who can protect themselves. That is the ghetto