Cop Fired on in Aftermath of Rally at Grand and Putnam
[nggallery id=”21567″ template=galleryview] Yesterday’s press conference at the corner of Grand and Putnam avenues about the recent wave of violent crime in Eastern Clinton Hill (photo on the jump) must have touched a nerve: Less than 12 hours after Councilmember Letitia James and Deputy Borough President Yvonne J. Graham finished decrying the lack of resources…
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Yesterday’s press conference at the corner of Grand and Putnam avenues about the recent wave of violent crime in Eastern Clinton Hill (photo on the jump) must have touched a nerve: Less than 12 hours after Councilmember Letitia James and Deputy Borough President Yvonne J. Graham finished decrying the lack of resources being devoted by the city to the 88th Precinct, a traffic cop was shot at just yards away. According to a detective we spoke with this morning, the shooter fired on a traffic policeman in his patrol car between 2 and 2:30 a.m. this morning; the bullet missed its mark. The street is now closed off and the detective going door to door, in marked contrast to the shrug-like response that last week’s drive-by shooting on the corner elicited from the law enforcement community. The casual attitude taken by the precinct towards the situation was crystallized by a comment the same detective made to us. Because the corner was much worse a decade ago, he suggested, everyone should just be happy and stop complaining about it now. (This sounds remarkably similar to a comment another cop made to someone we know a couple of years ago that if she didn’t like the way things were in the neighborhood she should move out.) This from a guy, we can assure you, who lives nowhere near the neighborhood he works in. We’ll see whether this latest attack on their own gets the police to focus on this problem that has been under their noses for years. A good place to start might be the hours of videotape that the landlord of the problem building has of drug transactions going on in broad daylight. Up to now, the police have shown zero interest in viewing them. Maybe DA Charles Hynes can make the time.
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Today’s camera’s are very small and pocket sized. You can easily take pictures of the cars and their license plates that pull up to buy drugs from the corner ppl. I’ve seen it all the time.
Let’s use our heads! Think outside of the box! It’s not hard to photo a customer if they are pulling up with their cars. The license plate is all you need.
Can we think outside the box or do we just give in? Can you at least come up with a better solution? I’m thinking, are you?
A- why would anyone move into a hood with crack dealers on the street
B- it is crazy to mess with crack dealers
C-what kind of way of life have you carved out for yourselves and families
“These same people must then be willing to testify in court against them. This rarely happens because people see helping the police as “snitchin.””
Not only ddo the police IGNORE evidence from people who want to point out the bad guys (see post @ 2:30), the police can’t guarantee to protect people who want to testify AND remain in their neighborhoods. Can you assure people who want to do the right thing that they will be protected?
putnamdenizen,
My co-worker and I just had a good laugh at your expense. She lives in 500 washington(next to brown memorial), and I asked her did she know that her building was a drug spot and was a source of drugs on fulton street?! We literally laughed out loud! Just because some young guys congregate in front of the building doesnt make it a drug spot. 500 washington ave is NOT a drug spot or the source of drugs in the area.
http://www.clintonhillchill.com
Actually I doubt many of the buyers are from Pratt and I think little of it is mj. Most people get their mj delivered these days.
Again we aren’t talking marijuan, 4;12. This is crack baby. Of course that doesn’t exclude the possibility that it involves Pratt students. I’m not sure there is a drug free neighborhood.
And how would one photograph buyers without photographing sellers? And most of the buyers I see don’t seem like they would take being photographed lightly.
Someone that says:
“People get shot, it’s the way it is.”
Then ends each post with?:
“Someday this war is gonna end…”
You need to elaborate, because it sounds as if you are lamenting the end to some supposed war.
And no, people getting shot is not the way it is.
I think it is more dangerous to photo the Dealers. They are most likely to “get back at you” than the customers.
I would also imagine that most of the buyers are the kids at Pratt. Something about Artistic creativity and mj.
While I like the creative energy, if I had to choose, I would rather have a Drug Free neighborhood than one with Drugs and Creativity.
As a new homeowner on Grand Avenue, I think we all should spend least time blogging and more time cleaning up our community. How many of you attended the rally? You can’t pay cops enuff to care about a neighborhood that they don’t live in. It is up to us to make our community better. The WHAT needs a hug. I find funny that you are on a the BROWNSTONER talking tough. Please don’t tell your hood rat friends that you blog on the BS. You might lose your hood pass. I grew up in the projects so please save that fake tuff talk for someone who cares. If you have nothing better to do with you time then how about you join the NYPD.
PS
I think the BS and the WHAT are the same person. LOL