Police Action in Prospect Park on Wednesday 7/26

I was running in the park around 7:00 PM and saw the ambulances. No idea what it was about. The only injury I saw was a woman who had fallen off a scooter and had bloody knees.

I ran along the road that cuts through the middle of the park and there were two cars there that appeared to have been in a serious accident. But no one was near them, whatever had happened was over. There were fallen trees around them and it looked like one of the cars had been crushed. It was just bizarre, I couldn't make sense of it.

attempted robbery, i spoke with a female officer as they were chasing down the suspect.

It was definetly an attempted robbery - started in PP and then the "perp" scrambled down through the backyards between the homes on 2nd Street and 1st heading toward 8th Ave. About 50 cops, three squad cars, lots of undercovers, a hovering helicopter, etc ended up on the street ands sidewalk and in the garbage area of my building around 7:30PM last night.

This was all to arrest one 15-yr-old black kid who looked scared shitless. The disproportinate amount of force was due to one cop spraining his ankle in the chase and a grossly overweight cop collapsing with chest pains and being taken away by ambulance. As I'm sure you all know, once you radio in "cop down" it turns out cops in droves.

All of this unfolded just as two of friends from San Francisco rounded the corner to come into my building. Their first thought was that a movie was being filmed ;-).

dang i was hoping to read the perp got a good ole fashion beating oh wells.

Me and a couple of friends got mugged at gunpoint on the UES right after 9/11 and the show of police force was impressive. If that's what it took to get the dumb little shit than so be it, anyone brandishing a gun should do some jail time, that's a whole different level of crazy shit than just "kid stuff".

Livetotravel wrote: actually they were standing around high-fiving each other just like high school jocks at a football game. I know I feel safer now.

Stop being so upset that this kid got bagged. As for the "disproportionate" response, you hear this stuff on the radio and if you don't have anything else doing, you show up. It's not like the dispatcher or the other cops or whoever is going to get and there and be like, "Um, yeah, there's this kid we're after and he grabbed something that wasn't his and showed a piece when confronted. Now, please guys, I only want 4 officers MAX showing up because we don't want to make a big scene that will upset the locals - especially because the handgun appeared to be of small caliber and the kid is probably pretty scared so I don't think there's anything too much to worry about. So let's decide - who's coming? I need four people, remember...oh, and if we do catch this fellow without being shot at, please don't act happy or anything - we're likely witnessing the tragedy of another young life wasted on crime. Jesus, did you guys decide who's coming yet? Keefer, McHugh, stop arguing. Keefer, you can come next time..."

Ha! I probably have toyed with the idea after seeing a movie like, say, The Fantastic Four and realizing that at the very least I couldn't do worse...

how humane of you - an historically common suggestion - post arrest beating. lovely.

matter of fact I have done that in my life. want to compare past addresses? want to compare past efforts?

Whew - I was geting worried that the level of discussion would never return to this level. Thanks for re-grounding me.

mykidissmarterthanyourmom wrote: I was wondering the same thing. Damn helicopter was circling for a half hour.

+1, I came up from the subway, and around and around it went, right over my apartment!

Livetotravel wrote: actually they were standing around high-fiving each other just like high school jocks at a football game. I know I feel safer now.

you'd prefer no cops came, or the cops came, solved the crime and had some high fives. I'd give them a high five too. Eveytime the go out after some punk doushe bag with a gun, they risk their lives.

Props to the NYPD