Another sad tale of governmental incompetence

Should there be more government funding for social services such as protecting those who can't protect themselves?

Should we be spending $3.6 BILLION per MONTH in Afghanistan instead of in Brooklyn or Smalltown, USA?

IMHO this is societal incompetence as much or more than it is govt incompetence.

Leviathan's fingers are too thick to deal with the minute, at times. Must we blame 'it' for every social ill? What of the neighbors of this woman, this woman's family as well this woman herself? Jesus, this is disgusting. I hope she never gets out of prison.

Similarly, are we content in believing that Steve Maynard's family could do nothing to forestall the thousands of dollars in damage he has wrought to this community? That it's all Leviathan's fault ? For years?? I don't believe that. I think it was merely habitual negligence cognizant of little social consequence. I also think Steve 'GOT OFF' on breaking tree branches, and did it where he could... If he fathomed there was little harm to his person, he did it. I know for a fact that where he was told, 'If you break my tree there will be hell to pay,' he did not. So, regardless of how many demons he saw chillin' and grinnin' at him demonically , sitting in the shady crooks from those protected trees, he left them alone." Crazy Steve, even in his insanity recognized cause and effect. What happened to him is that he went around and started breaking the branches of the whitefolks trees, venturing to far into the whiteman's territory: Prospect Park? Now he GOT to be crazy to do that! I bet now amidst his thorazine (or whatever drug he's hopped on) haze he is thinking, " I....done... did.... it...now...."

And to say that now he sits there as a result of concerned citizenry is a crock. You know how many times people beseeched po-po and said, 'Yo, can you do something about this?' Po-po just looked at US and said, "You want me to think about this dude breaking branches when there are rapes and killings going on?" Steve sits there because he trespassed into Stern country, and Prospect Park Alliance country, and Park Slope country. 'Concern citizenry' had absolutely nothing to do with it. DUE PROCESS is denied to him, (or anyone who would represent his interests) because to grant it to him is to ensure his release, eventually. So it came to past that it was done to Steve (for the benefit of all) what is done to alarmingly MORE people every year: 'Let's say he's crazy and therefore incapable of being able to be afforded DUE PROCESS, and keep him that way; forever.'

How Crazy Steve is kept imprisoned is anti-DUE PROCESS. It can happen to anyone. Keep that in mind.

Well Cap'n,
If you're tellin' me Park Slope ain't white, then THAT'S sayin' sumpin'. If you're sayin' that the collud peeples in mha neck of di woods be toleratin' po-po's indifference, then that's sayin' sumpin' too.

But what you ARE saying is that the people in Crown heights are NOT "...EDUCATED and aware of the laws and the levels of government and how to use them." I highly disagree. You are being wholly ignorant of the fact that for a very long time social services were and are denied to people by those whom enforce them. As a former pawn in the game, I have seen firsthand how whitefolks get more than others, To say this doesn't exist, and the inaction by Leviathan to step in is a result of the lack of POWER Blackfolks have had historically is like saying man hasn't walked on the moon. But what am I talking about? I live in a neighborhood that, in your words, 'tolerates crap from their police officers or elected officials.'

Capn' you're wrong.

Capt. Planet wrote: It's about quiet persistent and determined outrage and insistence that governmental institutions perform properly. It's about calling 311 regularly and attending community board meetings. It's about supporting local civic empowerment organizations like the Crow Hill Assn., Crown Heights North Assn. and Crown Heights Revitalization Movement.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, not the grenade-throwing once-a-decade crazy person. He/she just gets placated and ignored.

+1

....although I'm not really the community board mtg type