NYPD Records Crime Dip in Brooklyn North
Here’s a hopeful report: Crime in Brooklyn North precincts—which cover East New York, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, and Brownsville—is down by more than 3 percent so far this year, according to the Daily News, with the murder rate 20 percent lower than in 2007 and burglaries down by 12 percent. There have been nine fewer murders…
Here’s a hopeful report: Crime in Brooklyn North precincts—which cover East New York, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, and Brownsville—is down by more than 3 percent so far this year, according to the Daily News, with the murder rate 20 percent lower than in 2007 and burglaries down by 12 percent. There have been nine fewer murders in East New York in 2008 than there were at this point in 2007. The neighborhood had the highest number of murders, 31, in the city last year. There’s also been a 12 percent crime reduction in Bed-Stuy and a 10 percent decrease in Crown Heights. The NYPD says the city’s decision earlier this year to have more rookie cops patrolling the streets of high-crime neighborhoods has led to the declines.
Influx of Cops Helps Cut Crime, Residents Still Wary [Daily News]
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I guess this is one of your frequent “clueless days” What
Cops on the street will reduce crime, yes, period. More cops=less crime.
It is a simple formula, more presence, quicker response times, caught criminals, etc.
I see the young cops walking past the houses in North Crown Heights, nodding to those on their stoops and ignoring the wafts of marijuana smoke, but it does make a difference.
They need more of a presence after dark however.
I concur with 12:42, I live in Bed Stuy and see tons of beat cops patrolling on foot. God bless them. Perhaps they are the reason that much of Southern BS is currently safer than Eastern CH.
To respond to earlier posters doubting the What’s backstory, I personally do buy the story that he grew up in Brooklyn. If you search the archives there was a post about the “Slave” theater on Fulton and he posted some fun reminiscences about seeing Pam Grier movies there as a kid.
The What’s venom towards newcomers to the “ghetto” is interesting. You know, What, some people are just trying to find a place to live. It’s not always about greed. Yes, these neighborhoods are changing in ways both good and bad… but hey, this is New York City, and neighborhoods here reinvent themselves about as often as Madonna.
You seem like a fairly clever guy. If you want to preserve the things you love about BS and/or CH, why not take some of the time you spend posting here and use it more constructively? As the hood gets more economically diverse, that means more local money to be spent at small, black-owned businesses, and more potential donors to shore up cultural institutions. Why don’t you start such a business or found such an institution, instead of wasting your considerable energy on schadenfreude? Go on, I dare you.
“They get it… you hate gentrification. Your way to combat it is to post financial data counter to their dreams and then to make them feel unsafe. Then maybe it reverts back to the hood you had hope for.”
This is the most accurate, succinct summation of The What to date.
Oh the ole cut and past Cognitive Dissonance post again huh What? Yawn.
The one who suffers from it is you my friend. You hold a different belief than most people here, so you lash out at posters like a 3rd grader by calling names like Asshat and Dumbass. You’re here because you’re trying to help them understand? Please. You’re here because you’re the ass-hole. Every blog has one. You just happen to be a gigantic one.
All the assumptions you made about me just from one post:
I’ve never denied where I live is the Ghetto. I’ve never denied a housing slump and never expected to cash in on buying in CH.
I’ve lived in just about every borough there including some neighborhoods in the BX that make CH seem like paradise.
I love a lot of my neighbors, long time Clinton Hillers. They are usually the friendliest people over the new people moving in.
The funny thing is I agree with a lot of things you post around here regarding the market and economics. I just think you come off as a buffon when you start claiming it’s going to be the Wild West in 90 days. That people with families lives are in danger. Quit spreading fear.
Buh Bye.
Why can’t it be a sign of good police work. Why does it always have to attribute to more of one race than the other.
I live in Bed-Stuy and I can tell you that there are police officers walking the beat every day–I just saw them today, and I saw them yesterday, etc. So I guess they weren’t all removed for budget cuts as per oldclintonhillnewbedstuyresident.
Hey Dumbass, Posted by: guest at July 1, 2008 12:08 PM.
You moved from a nice neighborhood to try to gentrify “tha Hood”. You are around people that can’t stand your as and will do anything to undermine your stay here. You will have to send your kids to the worse schools in Brooklyn. You will restrict you freedom of movement because the fear of being mugged. The pioneers feeel they have a sense of entitlement and everything supposed to be OK when they “move in”.
If they was no Mutant Real Estate Bubble, there would be no GENTRIFICATION! The Asshats would not be in Asshat Hill.
Here read this again homeboy,
Cognitive dissonance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
In psychology, cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a fundamental cognitive drive to reduce this dissonance by modifying an existing belief, or rejecting one of the contradictory ideas.
You live in the Ghetto dumbass! You ramping the cost of living around here will not change that and in 90 day you will see what I’m talking about!!!!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Hey What… I never post here because like you I agree most of the people that post here are living in la la land when it comes to real estate… but I gotta say this statement makes you seem like a clown yourself:
“The upcoming Market crash will make it clear as day you and others made a grave error and put your families is great danger.”
There’s nothing worse than an internet goon. Anyone that makes that kind of statement is trying to spread fear. Smarten up. You’re better than that. A little less Bin Laden OK? Your obsession with this place only shows envy and as “a born and raised CHiller who sees people looking for perps” you should spend more time trying to help the situation rather than spread fear with it.
They get it… you hate gentrification. Your way to combat it is to post financial data counter to their dreams and then to make them feel unsafe. Then maybe it reverts back to the hood you had hope for. The difference is that there are renters moving to CH now. And as such the only thing that will happen will be further gentrification. Whitey will be moving out of those Manhattan Apts and renting in CH. It’s a fact.
Harry Allen you are not my friend. Since you yearn for the older days maybe you’ll get that Public Enemy reference.