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.
To the ‘guests’:
Please do not turn this into a racist generalization or oversensitivity about Clinton Hill and our wonderful diversity. There are great people here, too. We have lived here for 15 years and love it here. There just happens to be an issue which is in the 88th, and our overstretched police force can not be everywhere all of the time.
Remember that there was a time when we all had to use our street smarts. With a downturn in the economy and frustrated kids you will unfortunately see these things happen again. And it is not exclusive to Clinton Hill. It’s happening in a lot of areas.
bold type, apparently making oneself look like an idiot doesn’t inhibit you from posting.
I live on Clinton ave. Anyone tries this with me and at least one of them is going to the hospital. People stand up for yourselves.
I resent the implication by 11:05 that the crime rates of some races are higher than others. Everyone is the same! Why, during the past month the 88th precinct has broken up a massive drug ring operated by Koreans; a band of orthodox Jews who robbed dozens of area liquor stores; the leader of a violent Cherokee street gang reponsible for four homicides; and a serial killer who was borned and raised in an affluent Long Island community.
These are the facts! Thanks for the boys in blue for their hard work and shame on all of you who imply that most violent crime in the 88th is committed by one race of people!
11:00 & 11:18…the same??
Here’s what I was responding to…
“Clinton Hill is safe and saying anything else is racist”
A very bizarre, illogical statement.
Don’t post if you haven’t followed the thread. You just make yourself look like an idiot.
11.14 – what the heck are you talking about. Paranoid much?
bold type – do actually live in America? are you completely unaware that crime is disproportionately distributed amongst the different races well beyond the confidence limits of statistics?
I live on Clinton Avenue and have personally witnessed one of the attacks happening about a week and a half ago. The warning is not being racist-I saw the perpetrators (about 15 young kids that were African-American) and they surrounded a couple and then without warning started beating them violently. They then grabbed anything that they could from them and then scattered in different directions, and the group of men that seem to be out in front of their building at Clinton and Greene were signaling to the kids where to run to.
I’m disabled so I wasn’t able to do much to stop it, but it has been on the increase, and it is not a racist issue. There just happens to be a group of kids that are causing a lot of trouble in the neighborhood.
It’s the same problem with drugs dealing and everything else that happens here, why isn’t the police more active about it? get this idiots assess in jail!