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.
oh yeah, and there is no god
Maybe those terrorists who just got the right to a civilian trial need to make a little cash on the side to pay their lawyers- a little could go a long way with those fools
LP i think i love you. thank you for saying the obvious that totally clueless people don’t want to admit. it’s frickin scary to be mugged, to be followed, to be harassed, etc.. no reason, none! to put your family in that position. it’s about the projects, not race. i would never live near a project or a ghetto neighborhood because i’m scared of the violence. really, normal white people are not afraid of black people. most of us have gone to school, work, whatever with all sorts of different people, races, religions all that. and we all know that we can make friends and get along.
I’m sorry. I’m black and hope to never live next to the projects god willing! Public housing, especially in projects the size and layout in Clinton Hill were a big mistake. It’s ugly and dehumanizing. I don’t think its an issue of race, but economics. Poor people, not all, but many in the projects don’t give a shit about their surroundings and they live in shitholes! I say knock them down! Call me an elitist, don’t care. I visit my friend who lives across the street from the projects and I have to pass through 10 people sitting on his stoop that he owns drinking forties! Calling each other nigger in front of my child. And they leave their trash. Stop defending ghetto behavior!
LP
Not entirely, 2:24.
There’s a thread about how white adults are always causing problems in the city, country, and world.
The common theme to this thread is young black kids (“thugs”) are always causing problems in the community.
great point, 8:50. You are absolutely right.
Why live in a neighborhood like this? Why go to school in a neighborhood like this? The muggings are never going to stop. Brooklyn is an awful rip-off.
The only racists in this whole scenario are the criminals. They mugged and violently beat these people on the basis of race and class. They think you are stupid and the enemy. Where is the ACLU!!