Crime up

I've been in CH for just about a year now and I haven't seen much of a difference crime wise. Thankfully, I've never had any serious run-ins though I'm usual very alert and aware of my surroundings when coming home late at night (which is almost every night). At most, maybe there are a few more homeless people panhandling aggressively but that's too subjective really.

Honestly the biggest change I've seen is the neighborhood's complexion getting a lot paler. When I first came here I'd actually feel annoyed when seeing another white person as it reminded me that I stuck out on the streets. Now they're popping up everywhere.

I forgot, there was actually a lot of sporadic gunshots late summer and early fall though it seems to have calmed down recently. At the time it seemed like every other thread was about gunshots and there was even a thread about gunshot thread. As I said though, I never encountered any of it personally and things seem to have settled down.

dapearl9 wrote: I forgot, there was actually a lot of sporadic gunshots late summer and early fall though it seems to have calmed down recently. At the time it seemed like every other thread was about gunshots and there was even a thread about gunshot thread. As I said though, I never encountered any of it personally and things seem to have settled down.

Happens every year. It's called cold weather.

Ahh, here's a theory....Take a good look around and what do you see. Yes you live with a bunch of savages. Gee that was real hard to figure out. You guys talk about hearing gun shots like it's no big deal. The first time I hear a gun shot where I live, I'm packing up and moving.

Im a sloper wrote: Ahh, here's a theory....Take a good look around and what do you see. Yes you live with a bunch of savages. Gee that was real hard to figure out. You guys talk about hearing gun shots like it's no big deal. The first time I hear a gun shot where I live, I'm packing up and moving.

http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=467596
http://curbed.com/archives/2008/11/05/gentrification_or_not_those_werent_firecrackers.php
http://gothamist.com/2007/02/11/cops_husband_sh.php
http://gridskipper.com/64491/hostage-situation-in-park-slope-shots-fired

Yeah, it looks like you got a bunch of savages living with you in PS as well. See ya, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. :roll:

Oh and I forgot this link, these stats cover just the northern part of Crown Heights. Very lovely!

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs077pct.pdf

"Dude" PPW and 15th St isn't the north side of the park. Neither is 6th and Prospect, and the perp in that case lived on St. Marks between 5th & 6th which is certainly not on the other side of Flatbush. And when I checked, being drunk and in your own home doesn't give you a pass on firing off a weapon. As a matter of fact, I'd suggest to you that anyone who gets drunk enough to result in a police standoff in CH comes out of their house in a body bag rather than going through a multi-hour standoff with the police.

I never claimed that CH was utopia. I simply said that your statements about us "savages" over on this side of the park and the implication that "nothing like that happens over here" in the upper whitelandia of PS are not based on facts but are reflections of your own underlying racist thoughts. You were the one that claimed that if shots were fired in your neighborhood you would move. Well, just helpfully pointing out that shots have indeed been fired in your neighborhood, and by people who actually live there.

Contrast that with the folks that committed the murder of Officer Timoshenko (which you so helpfully cited) who neither lived in nor seemed to have any ties to the Crown Heights neighborhood they committed the crime in.

So when are you moving out of Brooklyn "Im a sloper"?

do not feed newbie trolls.

Don't drag me into this one por favor, It might get ugly!

whynot_31 wrote: do not feed newbie trolls.

word.

I have been in CH for over a year now, and I have experienced some crime first hand, break-ins and a mugging, but other than that I'm just aware of my surroundings and try to be as smart as possible. With the way the economy is and the holidays coming up, it definitely makes me a little nervous. But I dont know if we have to be 'prepared for a long hard winter' but just keep your eyes and ears open .. ya know

Are people mapping the crime in that muggings map still?

dapearl9 wrote: [quote=Obamanut]With the economy continuing the way it is and the holiday season fast approaching, crime in Crown Heights is set to grow at an unprecedented pace.

Hope you people are prepared for a long hard winter.

The connection between a bad economy and increased crime is thrown around a lot while historical evidence actually contradicts it. For example there were higher crime rates in the 1920s than during the 1930s.

You are right, I was completely off base. Don't worry about a thing, just keep listening to you iPod on Eastern Parkway, you'll be fine.

I'm fired up now at work. The fact is a struggling parent who gets laid off is not going to start mugging people to buy Christmas gifts. Poverty doesn't turn people into animals who exist in a constant survival of the fittest death match. While it can lead to some crime the desperation can just as easily lead to tighter communities and families as people band together through the storm.