Pratt Community Alerted to Rise in Violent Muggings
Last Friday Pratt Institute brass sent out an email to students and faculty warning them of a reported increase in violent activity near the Clinton Hill campus. The email said, in part, the following: The NYPD 88 Precinct has reported an increase in robberies within its confines. The robberies are reported to be committed by…
Last Friday Pratt Institute brass sent out an email to students and faculty warning them of a reported increase in violent activity near the Clinton Hill campus. The email said, in part, the following:
The NYPD 88 Precinct has reported an increase in robberies within its confines. The robberies are reported to be committed by a group of black males and females approximately 15-16 years of age. It has been reported that the group runs up to the victim, assaults them by kicking, punching, and scratching; then taking anything of value. These occurrences have happened during various times of the day. All students and Pratt community members are recommended to travel in pairs or groups. If you must travel alone consider using a car service. Avoid traveling late at night.
Repeated queries to the 88th Precinct for more information on the rash of robberies yielded no answers, but the precinct’s published report on crime for the 28 days that ended last Sunday shows there were 26 robberies committed during the period, a 37 percent increase from the 19 committed during the same weeks last year. Pratt isn’t the only neighborhood entity that’s been showing concern about safety in the area lately. Clinton Hill Blog has been chronicling appearances of a car in the neighborhood called the “Clinton-Washington Neighborhood Patrol,” a security measure undertaken by the Clinton Hill Co-ops. A couple months ago the Daily News reported that there’s been a big jump in the number of robberies and car thefts in Clinton Hill so far this year.
Clinton-Washington Neighborhood Patrol [Clinton Hill Blog]
Double-Digit Increase in Clinton Hill Crime Rate [Brownstoner]
Photo by PhillyBlunt.
2.53 – you seem unable to grasp the difference between perps who we know and perps as yet uncaught who are described so that people can avoid/identify them. But don’t let that salient difference get in the way of your PC rant.
Looks like the What’s war is heating up.
Thanks 3:04…
Getting “counselling???” That’ll make her even worse off.
Sounds like some of the perpetrators have been caught.
http://community.livejournal.com/pratt/987334.html
And “unable to form intelligent sentences.”
2:53, if we were trying to describe the President to people who didn’t know what he looks like and were trying to find him, we probably WOULD include “white” in the description (in his case, we might also include “dangerous”, “war mongering”, “morally bankrupt”, “moronic”, “corrupt”, etc).
But is he an albino that is Caucasian or African American???
2:53 makes a point…maybe not a helpful one but…
Um Bold type guest…that’s “vertically challenged person with albinism”
I look forward to the day when “white” is attached to criminals like:
White savings and loan officers (remember that big steal?).
White Enron executives.
The white George Bush (for Iraq).
Etc.
Street crime — vicious and stupid — adds up to a pittance next to the crimes perpetrated by characters like the ones above.
But hey, who’s counting? Not Brownstoners, apparently.