Gun shot at about 6 on 8/30?

Go to spotcrime.com

Then select Brooklyn NY, and a date range and it will pretty accurately tell you how often shootings that injure people occur in bklyn. Zoom in on the map to see Crown Heights.

P.S. it's almost never fireworks. Both are illegal, but it's easier to buy a gun than an M-80 in New York City.

Yep...another person shot last night. Don't worry, summer is almost over.

ParadeRest said:

Yep...another person shot last night. Don't worry, summer is almost over.

Although summers in CH are usually pretty bloody, I was optimistic this one would have been less so.

Paraderest-

Wouldn't it be great if we could just solve this whole

pesky crime/poverty/dysfunction thing with criminology lectures?

The PhD's could make recommendations that worked, we could have then be given the ability to enact them.

Unicorns could be real...

“Reviewing the Evidence on the Effects of Focused Deterrence Strategies on Crime"

Please join us when Anthony A. Braga, professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, speaks on new problem-oriented policing frameworks, known as "focused deterrence strategies." A number of U.S. police departments have experimented with “focused deterrence strategies”—policing frameworks that target a specified crime problem within a high-crime-intensity area—to prevent gang violence and group-involved violence generally. These strategic approaches have also been applied to other crime problems, such as overt drug markets and individual repeat offenders. Professor Braga will discuss his meta-analysis of and findings about the efficacy of these approaches.

Anthony A. Braga is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and a senior research fellow in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University. He is also a member of the University of Chicago Crime Lab and a senior fellow in the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the president and an elected fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Dr. Braga’s research involves collaborating with criminal justice, social service, and community-based organizations to address illegal access to firearms, reduce gang and group-involved violence, and control crime hot spots. He has co-authored and co-edited several books, most recently Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention (Oxford University Press, 2010).

The lecture is part of the Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series at the Vera Institute of Justice.

https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/vera/event.jsp?event=97

Mistaken?

You mean those guys I see dressed in pasely ties at 1 Financial Center aren't gangsters? (kidding)

How's that going to help? People aren't shooting at each other because there isn't enough police presence, they've got very specific reasons why they want to do it. You're not at all on their radar. You have nothing to worry about, aside from being caught in the crossfire. And statistically, as someone else pointed out, you're more likely to get hit by an out-of-control car that ends up with you pinned against a building.

I agree with eastbloc, as a person who isnt involved in the drug trade, your risk of being shot is low. "Low", of course, is a relative term.

Welcome to the neighborhood. We haven't done a meet-up for newbies in a while, but I'll probably set up one in Sept.

Newguy88, I'm curious since you've posted in a few of the forums about how you are or were freaking out, but surely you researched about the area you were moving to before actually moving right?

Regarding more cops, I'm not exactly anti-police presence, but I don't equate them with less gunfighting in Crown Heights... After last year's West Indian Day Parade, the NYPD responded to an altercation on my block by firing back 70 shots at a guy who took one or two shots at his target. An innocent woman was killed and I never learned whose gun it came from, but the police response was completely out of control and put me on guard against THEM and not the real bad guys.

Psychologist-

All are welcome.

Paraderest-

I think everyone (including the police) would like to respond to a gun battle with super powers. I.E. Every shot would hit the the target, in a way that eliminates the threat posed by the subject, but does not actually do any long term damage to the subject.

....You know, like in the movies.

Of course, super powers do not exist, and anyone who has ever fired a handgun knows that they are loud, inaccurate, cumbersome weapons under the BEST of circumstances, such as at the range when no one is shooting at you.

Official statistics on the accuracy/inaccuracy of firearms discharge by the NYPD can be found here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/afdr_20111116.pdf

Until better weapons and ideal shooting conditions are created, I think that rational, intelligent people (civilians as well as police officers) asks that MOS do their best once they have made the decision that deadly force is necessary to protect their own life or someone else's.

In the mili-seconds that you may have:

- Use both sights.

- Breathe.

- Get in a solid stance.

- Ask yourself whether a fellow officer is positioned to eliminate the threat with more accuracy, and less chance of collateral damage.

- Shoot for center body mass until threat is eliminated.

I'd like to think I would make every shot count under such circumstances, but even then I would have several problems.

For example, the problem of over penetration (a shot passing through the target and into another person).

Also, when someone is shot, it takes a short period for them to fall to the ground. In that period, the shooter (in this case an officer) is not aware that s/he has hit them.

Hence, regardless of how one is trained, shots are often fired in that period until the person is on the ground and no longer able to be a threat. Needless to say, it is very dangerous to be present during such incidences; simply by sitting on your stoop you could end up being shot.

Gunshots can be fatal.

There are lots of such weapons, but -sadly- they are rarely in the hands of the officers who are first on the scene, nor are they effective against someone who is imminently using a gun against you or another person.

Tazers, bean bag shot guns, batons, pepper spray, rubber bullets, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal_weapon