Crime on Butler St (screaming, police)

schmoppa

I live on Butler st, the street that if it connected from 4th ave to 5th, it would go through the Key Foods parking lot.

It was stormy. Lots of rain and lightning. I was in bed at around 11:15, heard the screaming, ran to the front of my apartment.

I couldn’t see the person screaming, though it definitely sounded like it was coming from the street somewhere. I live on a fairly quiet street.

The screaming continued for a few more seconds, during which time I heard someone (I think the screaming young woman) scream “SOMEONE CALL 9-1-1.”

Then the screaming stopped, and a minute or two later an unmarked police car (a green Jeep Liberty) showed up going the wrong way down our street pretty fast.

The car did a u-turn at the elbow of the street (where it hooks left), came back past my apartment, stopped and some young woman came up to the car. I think I heard someone say something to the effect of “they went down that way”, then the young woman hopped in the police vehicle and they sped off.

I don’t know whether this was the same young woman who was screaming.

I checked the locks and went back to bed.

About 10 minutes later I heard a police siren chirp. Around here it could be for anything, but I went back to the front of my apartment and saw four regular police cars arriving. Some got out and went into a building maybe 4 doors to the west. One car drove up the street after a while, and then turned around and left.

I want to know what happened. Should I call the non-emergency police number and enquire about what happened?

precious williams

Yes! Please find out what happened. How did you know that the first car was an unmarked cop car? For some reason I have always felt nervous about walking long Butler Street.

I only live a few blocks from you though - you and I are almost neighbors! Do you consider it a rough neighborhod?

anonymous

Precious Williams wrote: Yes! Please find out what happened. How did you know that the first car was an unmarked cop car? For some reason I have always felt nervous about walking long Butler Street.

I only live a few blocks from you though - you and I are almost neighbors! Do you consider it a rough neighborhod?

Get a life. Rough neigborhood my ass. Try living in Brownsville or East New York.

precious williams

Anonymous wrote: [quote=Precious Williams]Yes! Please find out what happened. How did you know that the first car was an unmarked cop car? For some reason I have always felt nervous about walking long Butler Street.

I only live a few blocks from you though - you and I are almost neighbors! Do you consider it a rough neighborhod?

. Try living in Brownsville or East New York.

No thanks.

schmoppa

I could tell the car was an unmarked police car because I could see police lights flashing. Weird, I had never seen a Jeep as a police car before.

Regarding how rough the block is, well, it's maybe a littler "rougher" than blocks east of 5th avenue, but not really bad at all, this incident aside, though I still haven't figured out what happened. I should probably just call the police precinct to find out what happened.

I suppose the most difficult part about the block is that it is pretty easily accessible off of 4th. If you had an active imagination, I suppose you could envision getting pushed into a car and kidnapped given the easy access to 4th avenue. But hey, we're on the same block as an elementary school. It can't be that bad, can it?

Walking at night from the Atlantic subway station to Butler, I definitely feel a bit less safe than I do walking along 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and even PPW in Park Slope, but shit can happen anywhere.

schmoppa

To answer PW's question perhaps more directly, I'm not worried about Butler street's residents at all, and I'm a farily recent transplant from Out West.

It's just being right off of a main artery of Brooklyn that makes it a bit more dodgy than PS blocks closer to the park. At least the street is one-way toward 4th, meaning that Butler is NOT a through street. Makes for fairly quiet nights, when there's not bloody-murder being screamed.