Shooting In Boerum Hill
A reader emailed us last night after arriving home at around 8 o’clock to find that her block of Warren Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues had been shut down following a shooting. There were a couple of dozen cops on hand, and they said that someone from the nearby Gowanus Houses had been shot;…
A reader emailed us last night after arriving home at around 8 o’clock to find that her block of Warren Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues had been shut down following a shooting. There were a couple of dozen cops on hand, and they said that someone from the nearby Gowanus Houses had been shot; she inferred from there comments that it was a teenager. She also inferred that the shooter was still on the loose. Anyone else nearby pick up any other details?
Northslope – I did mean it as a criticism. I think the peer group the perpertrators may be hanging out with may have those values, but that doesn’t dovetail necessarily with the neighborhood having those values. Often the innocent vitims in the neighborhood who happen to be standing on the wrong street or sitting too near to the wrong window do not share such values at all.
fsrg — agreed.
Government could also refrain from building any more high population density low income housing and take steps to eliminate it where it exists… but that will take a while.
Violent video games have been around since the 80’s – violent crime statistics show no correlation.
It is simple, you have a population, where over 50% of the men are not graduating HIGH SCHOOL – > and high school dropouts have an unemployment rate of greater than 50%.
Combine that with easy to get weapons and viola! = lots of violent crime.
All we (the Government) can do is lots of stop and frisks, and incarcerations (which gets guns and people -respectively- off the street) – this suppresses violent crime, but will never eliminate it. Gov’t can also offer good schools for those families that chose to escape this world but until somehow, the cycle is broken this will continue.
IJ has a point though with his 12:55 comment
again, I think it’s a combo of factors from parental involvement and teachings to what abuses they suffered as kids, learned beviors from their friends and the signals they get from the media be it games, TV shows or movies/music all contribute to their lack of respect for life
“Even if playing games “signals” something (which I doubt)”
Hmm…where people choose to spend their dream lives signals things to me. Weakly maybe but there’s something there.
Even if playing games “signals” something (which I doubt), that does not make the games the “cause”.
You don’t get sick because you sneeze. You sneeze because you are sick.
Surely the amount of time young men spend playing “other world” video games signals some gaping disconnect with our contemporary culture for them.
“Thats a bit of a sweeping statement. ”
Is that a criticism or a musing?
According to Wikipedia, Warren street is the border of Gowanus and Boerum Hill. So I guess the important questions are not “is this person okay?” or “why did this happen?” but rather “on which side of the street did this occur?” and “how will this affect my property value?”