Mugging on St. John's Place
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board: A neighbor on my block (St Johns between 7th and 8th Aves) has reported…
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board:
The number one thing one can do to minimize the chances of this type of thing happening are to avoid listening to your iPod or talking on your cellphone on the street. On top of that, we’re always shocked at the number of houses that fail to adequately light their stoop areas. There should be a law…
“What the hell is that Putnam – “snitches get stitches.”
Someone explain this to me”
It means that nominally law abiding citizens are colluding with those involved in street crimes to protect them from the police.
Yeahyeahyeah, I’m not a complete idiot, I get that…But why? Why does the guy that rips someone off get protected? What is the point?
Park Slope deserves all the push in robberies and car break-in’s they can get.
Maybe then they will stop encroaching on Sunset Park and calling is Slope South.
“The main thing you Asshats don’t get is you don’t think of your area is danngerous. You are a bunch of self entitled smug Asshats and you think that people supposed to get out of you way. You put yourself in great danger!”
You are a bigger fool than I had previously suspected What. Who thinks that their neighborhoods aren’t potentially dangerous? Nobody on here. This is a post about crime in Park Slope. If it can happen in Park Slope it can happen anywhere. I keep abreast of as many crime statistics related to the 88th Precinct (my precinct) as I can and I have read with interest and some concern about recent crime developments in my area. So where are the people who think that there is no danger in Brooklyn? In re your childhood, that sounds bad and I would imagine that you don’t relish the idea of being robbed these days. But to accept this situation as “the way it is” is a major cop out that you won’t see me engaging in.
“What the hell is that Putnam – “snitches get stitches.”
Someone explain this to me”
It means that nominally law abiding citizens are colluding with those involved in street crimes to protect them from the police.
I always think a good litmus test for a neighborhood is how middle aged residents react to street crime.
If they get worried and angry, it’s probably a good sign that the neighborhood will act to protect itself. If they get close mouthed and indifferent, the neighborhood is in trouble. If they starting talking about ‘no snitching’, the neighborhood is lost.
“So what are you saying What – that you want it to be that way or that it’s inevitable?”
Believe or not the crime rates have been going up the last few years. The last years of the Giuliani administration crime stats was cooked. The crack epidemic was over and that Asshat Giuliani need something to hang his hat on. Then you homeboy Bloomberg kept the same game up..
“What–if you are hoping actively for a more crime ridden city you are more twisted than I thought. ”
That’s real funny! You unlike the rest of the Asshats I harbor no illusion about where I live. When I was growing up in Bed Stuy everyone got robbed, I mean everyone. From the Badasses to the punks. Why??!! We understood our environment and the risks of growing up here!
The main thing you Asshats don’t get is you don’t think of your area is danngerous. You are a bunch of self entitled smug Asshats and you think that people supposed to get out of you way. You put yourself in great danger!
When the shooting happen on Fulton St. the other day i was standing in amazement that the Assets was thinking “this is not suppose to happen”. Chatting with there friends on the phone in stunned disbelief.
“snitches get stitches and end up in ditches!”
Please stop quoting Black slang!! I’m going to get sick….
Ether one or the other thing will happen. You will wake up or someone will put you to sleep…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
Boerum Hill: not a theory — I lived in the area too. And we never had a problem within two blicks of the HOD.
I haz – great advice
I agree, I think we all have become too blase about walking home from the subway etc – checking our blackberries, yapping on the phone,listening to ipods that we rarely notice if anyone is even around us- Especially around my neck of the slope(7th avenue between 9th and 15th streets) that I am lulled into a false sense of security with all the hustle and bustle. Hell, I even feel safe walking home at 1am along 7th.
snitches get stitches and end up in ditches!
Been a while since i heard that one.
I have two toilets…….excellent advice. Nuff said.