Crime Rises in Brooklyn Across the Board
This ain’t good. A crappy economy combined with a municipal budget crisis sounds like a recipe for a rise in crime. Sure enough, that’s what’s going on in Brooklyn right now, according to The Daily News. The number of robberies in the 84th Precinct (Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights) more than doubled in the first…
This ain’t good. A crappy economy combined with a municipal budget crisis sounds like a recipe for a rise in crime. Sure enough, that’s what’s going on in Brooklyn right now, according to The Daily News. The number of robberies in the 84th Precinct (Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights) more than doubled in the first three months of the year. In the 72nd precinct (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park), burglaries were up 120% in the same period, and in the 67th Precinct (Flatbush) they were up 51%. “You have all these kids hanging out without jobs and it’s combustible; that and a decrease in the number of cops on the streets is a bad combination,” said City Councilwoman Letitia James. “That combination has lead to, and will lead to, an increase in violent crime.” In related news, the man accused of two rapes last month in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill was taken into custody over the weekend.
Brooklyn Fears Crime Wave [NY Daily News]
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in Newark, N.J., say March was the city’s first month without a killing in more than 40 years. Police Director Garry McCarthy said this week that the last time the city went through a calendar month without a murder was in May 1966.
** We probably should all move to Newark to get away from this Brooklyn crime spree.
even the damn pitbulls went crazy this weekend attacking people!! (two seperate horrible pitbull attacks!) 🙁 stupid irresponsible pitbull owners.
*rob*
“When things like this happen they don’t turn out to be harbingers of doom,” said David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“We’re talking about a relatively small scale … and frequently these are the kinds of things where a few people are a crime wave.”
also, this week… in chicago 41 people shot in the span of just 50 hours! FORTY ONE PEOPLE!
*rob*
I think the bishop’s crook lights are pretty good. My street seems just as bright with them. My street had the old “cobra head” lights for the first 6 mos or a year, then the bishop’s crooks appeared.
What’s disappointing is that they used old fashioned bulbs. (Sodium?) You would think they would have installed some new LED light bulbs to increase energy efficiency and lower maintenance…
oh boy, the doom and gloomers just love a headline like this.
i know graffitti isnt necessarily an indicator of crime (well it kinda sorta is).. but the subways have been getting hit hard lately and they dont seem to be erasing it anymore. Also I see it on a lot of buildings now a LOT more. (this is in park slope and soho).
also im not sure why people thought crime would just keep going down down down down down.. get real! if people have no money, guess what? they’re gonna steal it from you! (i wouldnt steal it from you tho)
*rob*
I live in Flatbush… I like to say that ‘cuz it sounds gritty. But I actually live in “Victorian Flatbush.” Since my apartment is in a house that no one would think anyone would keep valuables in, I feel fairly safe. But I lock my doors. Now, if my upstairs neighbors 14 yr old son would do the same.
I say it’s the result of the lower lighting given off by the “bishop’s crook” historic streetlights.