WHAT'S UP WITHTHE 77TH PRECINCT?

I can't imagine that this is a plum precinct to get assigned to. They're probably more concerned about gun wielding, dope dealing homicidal maniacs than loud parties. Complain to Tish James.

The 77 pct does have radically different areas within it.

Vanderbilt Ave vs Utica Ave

It wouldn't surprise me if the pct was eventually reconfigured, and the wealthier sections served by the 78th.

Arguably, this process may have begun when they gave the 78th the responsibility for the Barclays Arena. The arena was built on land in the 77th.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=78th+pct+barclays&oq=78th+pct+barclays&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5378.17627.0.18434.20.16.1.3.3.0.371.2006.4j8j1j1.14.0...0.0.iKH4K4_uzXE

Weird. I didn't realize the 77th didn't cover all of PH.

Why was Tish James complaining it should have gone to the 77th? Was she trying for a landgrab?

Go visit the 75 or the 81 and you'll think this one is great.

I'm trying to think which would be a worse place to work:

HRA (the folks that do child support and public assistance)

or

Police

...both deal all day with people who are very unhappy. Some are at temporary low points, others are at a low point they spend their entire lives at.

I wonder if they get immmune to the smell of urine after a while

MHA said:but, I feel sorry for anyone who has to be imprisoned there, or work there.

Yeah, I'm going with ACS as hardest job too.

I was one of those people who got their iPhone stolen on the street, and I went to the 77 to file a report. The detectives I worked with were all very nice, but that is a seriously grim building.

They were actually very happy that I was willing to come in and make a statement and look at pictures and move forward with a case, rather than just filing an incident report. They even arrested a suspect, who I identified in a lineup.

The DA's office were the ones who I felt like I got the blow-off from - after I met with an ADA, they quickly decided that the one discrepancy between my statement at the time and my lineup ID (I had described the perp, who did a run and grab, as taller than the person I identified in the lineup) was a problem, and the only time I heard from them again was some paperwork about an order of protection filed on my behalf against the guy who I identified. Never got an explanation for that, not even a form-letter followup.

So there are a lot of things stopping the cops from keeping all the phone-stealers off the street. Some of them are actually good things - I would take a stolen phone as the price of ending the current stop-and-frisk regime. And some of it is just the weight of the number of people in the system, and inertia, and burnout.

I really think Weiner should throw his weiner in the ring. I'd vote for him over Quinn on any given Tuesday.

whynot_31 said:

Upon further consideration, I wish to add being a caseworker for Child Protective Services, ACS.

I'm gonna pick that one. For many of the adults, they made choices in their lives that got them to where they are. If they're temporarily at that low point, then they're showing hope that they'll turn it around. Those kids, however, had no say in their reality and probably the worst part is that there's little hope that they'll break out of the poverty cycle.