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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I’ve lived around the corner from this spot since 2002. I love my neighborhood. I walk by that corner every day at all hours. The people who live there, and who lived there long before I moved there, are very sweet and friendly to me.
I most certainly don’t run home. What an absurd thing to say.
Aside from some lewd comments here and there, which I don’t appreciate, everyone else is really wonderful.
It’s horrible that someone was shot, and I hope she/he recovers quickly.
“One thing that I have found to be extremely helpful is when members of the community are willing to assist in identifying perps.”
Did you even read the original post? The landlord has videotape of countless drug crimes and the cops are not interested.
“Individuals that have recently bought housing in fringe areas (i.e. Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights) are likely going to suffer from this economic downturn.”
What’s “recently”? How about 20 years ago, is that “recently”? Because that’s how long the first wave of homeowners buying in these so-called fringe areas started arriving.
None of the improvements are “recent”. They’re old. They’ve just sped up more recently. The prices got too high because you know, just like every single other f-ing city in the country there was a lot of speculation during the bubble. Nothing unique to the fringe areas. Hardly.
Here’s the big huge diff: these fringe areas are still in NYC located 15 minutes from Manhattan. Do you just no value in that? Because all those in NYC who have plenty more experience in business and city planning and real estate than you do, think otherwise about the future of Brooklyn and NYC. It is ALL about being in the city. Commuting sucks.
About 25 years ago a young woman was murdered on Hall Street. It was sensational, all over the news. (This event probably inspired the film “Art School Confidential”)
At the exact same time, several young women had been murdered on rooftops on the Upper West Side, the last, most noriously, on the roof of one of the Lincoln Center theaters. This was prominent also, but after the Lincoln Center aspect was revealed the stories were delegated to the back pages. Nobody wanted to scare tourists or bridge and tunnel folks with season tickets.
I lived where I do right now, in Clinton Hill. A new work friend lived on the “safe” UWS, right near Lincoln Center. On girls night out, we had the “So where do YOU live” conversation. “Clinton Hill”, I answered. “By Pratt”. “OH! THAT’S WHERE THAT AWFUL MURDER HAPPENED! I WOULDN’T LIVE THERE!”
I didn’t point out that she was surely in as much peril as I was. I guess it’s all relative.
I am seriously concerned that current job losses and increasing expenses will boost neighborhood crime. A bad economy has made this place a living hell more than once.
Perhaps, but as long as you’re buying it now when it is illegal, this is what you’re supporting.
The other thing I’d like to see is the pro-marijuana crowd to acknowledge that crap like that is part and parcel with their lifestyle.
No, actually its “part and parcel” of prohibition.
What about this police “watchtower” that they were so fast in sending out to Dumbo after just a few muggings? Is that an option? What does it do? Just curious.
1:18 spare me – community action is driven by self-interest – hence why politicians and activists push for home ownership in bad neighborhoods, so people interested in their property’s worth get motivated to change things. It’s the only thing that really works.
Whether it’s 100K for supervisory officers or 35K for rookies and yes a pension of half pay after 20 years regardless of age with a nice $12,500 check every December, it is true that we choose our professions and have to handle what comes with it. So for those of us who choose the private sector and have to pay into a pension, again your choice. The NYPD is always hiring.
Unfortunately a previous poster was correct. The person shot was a traffic agent not a cop, so this particular shooting will not neccessarily bring a better result. One thing that I have found to be extremely helpful is when members of the community are willing to assist in identifying perps. The are the ones who live in the communities and they know who the perps are. These same people must then be willing to testify in court against them. This rarely happens because people see helping the police as “snitchin.”