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.
“How bout the fact that you are just as likely to get robbed around NYU, in the upper west side or in brooklyn heights when compared to Clinton Hill/Fort Greene. Its NYC….where crime happens.”
Ah yes, an idiotic, ignorant and air-headed post like 11:30’s always surfaces when crime stats are discussed. What delusion and denial. Sorry pal–in my neighborhood, there are no warnings, and have never been any warnings, about packs of scratching, kicking, and violent thugs committing robberies. It is the reason some people pay more to live in certain neighborhoods over others. It’s called the crime rate. And the comparative crime rate. Stop trying to justify violence as simply part of the urban landscape.
WOW…glad to see this kind of crap doesn’t get spewed out about Bed Stuy anymore!!!
Finished your “arguement”?
Sounds like QED to me.
Montrose Morris…there are far too many of them on this thread today!!!! All hiding behind their guest logins.
Yes, 11:47, surrounded by both you and 11:49…neither one of you with a good command of reading comprehension or the ability to grasp a logical arguement. So, my point is that the genius capacity for mathematics is probably all in your own mind. However, you could be an idiot savant.
I’m done with you now.
“housing projects are not full of simply lovely people who are a bit down on their luck. these are stupid, cruel people who live in a cultural of mindless violence and ridiculous values.”
Amazing how in one short post, this poster was able to make broad, stereotypical, and wrong statements about thousands of people he admits he knows nothing about, and at the same time, make the case for personal idiocy so well.
This pack of kids needs to be rounded up and jailed. End of story.
Montrose Morris
bold type guest – presumably you’ll be too embarrassed to continue posting under that moniker.
11:44 and 11:45 have been the only faded type guests with anything to say of late of any relevance and with any sense of intelligence.
Bold type, unfortunately for you he was claiming to be in a genius in math, not English. So to point out an imagined error in his English AND then write QED shows you don’t know what QED means.