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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“Thugs don’t write ‘warning’ notes.”
That too. “We”, are you out there? What would you do?
2:05 I think you’re probably wrong, but even if you are right how does that give these little shyts the right to take someone else’s stuff? It doesn’t. These kids who cry about being oppressed because of their race ought to knock the chip off their own shoulder and go get a job to earn what they want. If your crack mother didn’t buy you a car, that doesn’t give you the right to take someone else’s stuff.
1:11 most of the people who live in that hood and have cars got them from there mommies in more cases then buying them from hard earned money. Thats why this hood is so at risk. Most of the buyers are people who would not have had the downpayment without mom and dad and when they lose there low paying job and have a huge morgage in a downward market they are toast. No more Helocs for the slackers
March 25th….Sanjeev Seekoomar, 34, was found on Tuesday morning stabbed to death in his basement apartment at 326 Carroll Street in Carroll Gardens, the police said. The door to the apartment was pushed in and the apartment ransacked, indicating a possible burglary or robbery, but motive was being investigated, the police said.
Somehow the label ‘Creep’ just doesn’t go with the thug tone of the warning.
Thugs don’t write”warning” notes.
Newark, Trenton, Irvington – ridiculously safe. I don’t think so. Like NY, NJ has good spots and bad. Probably more good considering the population density is much lower than NY. BTW, nobody from the midwest wants to write home from NJ. You may as well move back.
New Jersey is a cesspool.
EVERY person I know who moved there (many, coincidentally from Park Slope) all wish they could move back.
They miss living in a city, being able to be a part of a community, interracting with others, having every kind of restaurant imaginable within walking distance and in the case of Park Slope, one of the best schools in the city.
They all regret their decision to move. I don’t know one family, who wouldn’t move back if they could.
Are there brownstones in Upper Montclair? Why exactly are you posting here?
Sales down for the month and need to snatch a few city dwellers away.
BTW, 4000 sf McMansions are NOT the wave of the future, in case you missed that memo.
Prices in New Jersey are tumbling some areas, rising in others, much like in NYC. Tumbling: beach front condos, which is similar to the condo prices tumbling at Rockaway Beach in Queens. Upper Montclair? Prices are rising, much like Park Slope.
Of course, what you get in Jersey are ridiculously safe neighborhoods, quicker commutes into Manhattan by train, free access to the best public schools in the nation, etc.
I don’t own property or work in New Jersey, I just like showing people that the world isn’t just Brooklyn (to those who moved here from the Midwest and know nothing about the NYC metro area).
For all of you experts on crime:
1 800 RECRUIT
They are hiring.