Bergen Classon car break-ins.

tamara

ParadeRest wrote:
Here's another part of the equation...Maybe they just don't want to live in a neighborhood where people piss on the sidewalk, drink on the stoop, smoke crack in the hallways, sell drugs on the corner, steal cars on a routine basis, randomly break car and home windows. Maybe they don't want to live in an area where there is recreational gunfire, people being robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint for cell phones and Ipods.

I've lived in the neighborhood for almost eleven years, and I've never felt that way. Why do YOU live in the Heights if you think so little of it?!?

Now, WHAT if the reason the cops tell you not to move there is so they can continue to turn their backs on the hustlers on the corners and get payed off? When white folks move in, and I'm sorry to say so, their word carries more weight than ours, and the NYPD is acually forced to do something about it. Jus tlook at Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Ft Greene.

ben

tamara wrote: We decided to not even report it cause it would just bump up my insurance and nothing was stolen.

Reporting this to the police will not cause your insurance to go up. Since you're not getting a ticket and not making a claim your insurance company won't know about it. The police don't share details about every act of vandalism with the insurance companies.

It's important that these incidents are reported, no matter how small. The more that are reported the more visibility there will be on these problems.

paraderest

tamara wrote: [quote=ParadeRest]
Here's another part of the equation...Maybe they just don't want to live in a neighborhood where people piss on the sidewalk, drink on the stoop, smoke crack in the hallways, sell drugs on the corner, steal cars on a routine basis, randomly break car and home windows. Maybe they don't want to live in an area where there is recreational gunfire, people being robbed at gunpoint and knifepoint for cell phones and Ipods.

I've lived in the neighborhood for almost eleven years, and I've never felt that way. Why do YOU live in the Heights if you think so little of it?!?

Now, WHAT if the reason the cops tell you not to move there is so they can continue to turn their backs on the hustlers on the corners and get payed off? When white folks move in, and I'm sorry to say so, their word carries more weight than ours, and the NYPD is acually forced to do something about it. Jus tlook at Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Ft Greene.

The everyday hustlers have their own systems in place that beat the cops anyday of the week. They work with a series of steerers, lookouts, scouts and nextels that spot the cops coming from blocks away and put out the message. The dealers never have product and cash on them at the same time so they can't be locked up for dealing. Very rarely do they even have the product on their person. The product is often stashed in mailboxes, garbage cans, stairwells, etc.

On top of that most cops don't have the proper training to spot dealers and hand to hand transactions. There is official training for this and without that training the case will often times be very weak. The ADA will want to DP (decline prosecution) the case immediately if the cop doesn't have proper training and even if the ADA keeps the charges, any hack legal aide attorney will beat the charges anyway.

As far as the corruption comment, that is just ridiculous. This isn't the late 70's anymore and the "Buddy Boys" aren't around . That was a long time ago in a Crown Heights that was very different from what we have today. If you haven't heard of the "Buddy Boys" than perhaps you don't know as much about police corruption as you think you know.

tamara

and then again, perhaps I do.