Grrr, first time in a long time I got logged out after a long submission! Will try to re-compose:
BSM, I think the recent stop-and-frisk scandal (documented in the Village Voice) was not the precinct where you and I live but the one further east. But moving from Clinton Hill where I lived in the bad old days from 1989, I really noticed the difference seeing how police behave toward the populace when I moved here in 2007. I think that last year it got a little better, with more foot patrols and eye-to-eye contact which is so much better than driving around running red lights. But those towers where they look down on the neighborhood are the worst. Just like jail!
I have friends, black moms, whose kids are grown now but I remember them discussing when their kids were high school age how it was hard to tell which was a greater threat to their kids, crime or the police. And when my daughter (who is Chinese) was 7 or 8, I remember her telling me that her friends on our block in Clinton Hill told her that the police were not necessarily their friends. What a terribly difficult message that must be for a parent to need to tell a little kid.
My daughter recently told me that she and her friends at Brooklyn Tech had a discussion about the police. She said that the black, Latino and South Asian kids had very different stories to tell than the white and East Asian kids.
So now they’re interviewing some scumbag taxi driver in some place out on the LIRR who has doubled his fares because of the problems. I hope someone robs him.
That sounds pretty gour-MET for you, Rob! : P
Looks like Staten Island is really getting the short end of the stick on the plowing!!!!!
“that seems merely a matter of supply and demand. I thought you were a capitalist?”
Snort!
Organic turkey sausage, rob??? Sad, so sad. You have become what you hate.
why dibs, that seems merely a matter of supply and demand. I thought you were a capitalist?
you bought turkey sausage? That is so Park Slope. Wus.
Grrr, first time in a long time I got logged out after a long submission! Will try to re-compose:
BSM, I think the recent stop-and-frisk scandal (documented in the Village Voice) was not the precinct where you and I live but the one further east. But moving from Clinton Hill where I lived in the bad old days from 1989, I really noticed the difference seeing how police behave toward the populace when I moved here in 2007. I think that last year it got a little better, with more foot patrols and eye-to-eye contact which is so much better than driving around running red lights. But those towers where they look down on the neighborhood are the worst. Just like jail!
I have friends, black moms, whose kids are grown now but I remember them discussing when their kids were high school age how it was hard to tell which was a greater threat to their kids, crime or the police. And when my daughter (who is Chinese) was 7 or 8, I remember her telling me that her friends on our block in Clinton Hill told her that the police were not necessarily their friends. What a terribly difficult message that must be for a parent to need to tell a little kid.
My daughter recently told me that she and her friends at Brooklyn Tech had a discussion about the police. She said that the black, Latino and South Asian kids had very different stories to tell than the white and East Asian kids.
So now they’re interviewing some scumbag taxi driver in some place out on the LIRR who has doubled his fares because of the problems. I hope someone robs him.
It’s all good, cobble. While no doubt it deprives you of certain things, it also gives you certain advantages in life.