Serious Assault the 77th is Doing Nothing About!

King without a crown wrote: It's not about defending the Police, but obviously this shit stirring thread was meritless. If you're going to start a topic, atleast do some research first. The funny thing is that, I'm sure many people on this board actually fall for your divisive posts.

I'm still waiting to hear about the poor guy found in his bathtub. did the police figure out who killed him? are they being brought up on charges? was this a random crime?

and everytime a bell rings an angel gets it's wings...

Chris wrote: Would we be better off if all the police were Arabs? Without a doubt.

I'll second that! then we could implement "eye for an eye" type laws.

Last week a man found dead in his bathtub with his throat slashed at 1051 Eastern pkwy.
* Detectives are investigating a man's murder in a Crown Heights apartment.

The victim, in his 40s, was found with his throat slashed in the bathtub in his Eastern Parkway apartment near Schenectady Avenue at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, cops said.

Investigators were trying to determine a motive and searching for a suspect.

erikka wrote: [quote=WhyFi][quote=LeeHo]Please stop defending everything a cop does on these boards! Stop using the generic Bushism of heroes without an adequate defintion of one to describe yourselves. This is exactly the problem; the high horse mentality that countless officers have.

You don't see your view as being just a little to the other extreme? As usual, the truth lies somewhere in between.

nah, his assessment seems pretty fair to me.

He's just scolding us for our own good! Never question authority, people!

i usually agree "sort of" with LeeHo, but this time i straight out agree. LeeHo is entitled to his opinion just as much as KWOC. and as WhyFi points out, they are the extremes... leaving the rest of us somewhere inbetween - sounds good to me!

OK I have to ask this question. How far is all of this "crime spree" that Alafairnadia mentioned in the post above from Franklin and St Johns? I'm new to the area and just getting my bearings.
Still didn't catch how far down Eastern Parkway the poor guy in the bathtub was.
Isn't this an unusual amount of crime recently?

ParadeRest wrote: I haven't even gotten into the fact that the NYPD still uses typewriters (that never have ribbon), computers running on Windows 98 (that only access dept. databases, no word, no internet, etc), many DOS based computers and programs that are vital to operations, if you're lucky there is one half working fax machine in the whole building, there are one or two computers available for entering reports but there is probably somebody using it to enter all of the reports for that day so a cop with an arrest can't get his paperwork entered in a timely fashion causing prisioners to await transport to central booking, cops aren't issued passwords to all of the computer systems they need to use on a daily basis, I should start a new topic or atleast a new sentence...

Did you know that the laptops in the cars basically only run license plates, drivers licenses and does basic warrant checks? The cop can't see the warrant or what it's for. A person criminal record isn't accesible. They don't get the jobs they are assigned on the computer. They can't see previous incidents at that location. Can't see pictures of perps...

Interesting. I'd fire the IT people -- upgrading to an open source platform running on obsolete Pentiums and a single DB for everything could be done on a pretty small budget by an army of skript kiddzz.

Subject: I'm disgusted by what happened to Mo...

Mo has always been one of my favorite people in the neighborhood.

He is truly a sweet man. He knows me and my roommates' names and makes sure to ask us how we are all doing.

At Christmas time, he gives us all presents and wishes us the best of holidays.

I have been unfortunate enough to experience hostility towards Mo on many occasions over nothing in particular. People are rude to Mo just to be rude, and it makes me disgusted.

Young kids kicking Mo's cat when it was just a tiny kitten in front of their blind mothers, men screaming at Mo for not getting the Tylenol right (the patron was the one who had been wrong), and women cursing him for not producing their change quick enough are all incidents I've witnessed in that deli.

No person deserves this treatment.

I am sick and tired of this neighborhood falling victim to absolute ignorance.

It's been happening for a while.. but now I'm just angry.

Those people need to be caught and put away for a VERY long time.

Crime in this neighborhood has generally been provoked in the recent past. This time, a goog, decent, innocent man has been targeted.

It all needs to stop!



Why anyone would harm such a genuinely nice human being is beyond my comprehension.

dakotas way wrote: OK I have to ask this question. How far is all of this "crime spree" that Alafairnadia mentioned in the post above from Franklin and St Johns? I'm new to the area and just getting my bearings.
Still didn't catch how far down Eastern Parkway the poor guy in the bathtub was.
Isn't this an unusual amount of crime recently?

did you move here with your daughter??

back to the topic at hand --
LeeHo how's Mohammad your deli guy doing? It just rots, what happen to him.

It's fucked up that this happened. Those people who did that are fucked up as well as the people that UrJustADayLate described.

King without a crown wrote: The days of being friendly with your local supermarket owners and knowing the name of your butcher are rapidly fading. The more people living closer together, the further and more removed we become as a society.

Have you considered moving to Iowa?

King without a crown wrote: This happens day in and day out in the city, unfortunately most people just turn a blind eye until it hits home. The days of being friendly with your local supermarket owners and knowing the name of your butcher are rapidly fading. The more people living closer together, the further and more removed we become as a society. What happened to Mohammed is just one of many stories that are usually left untold.

It's fucked up in every case. I don't think it has anything to do with living close together though, there are plenty of big cities where things like this don't happen much.

Subject: End of reason

I thought The Golden Rule is something everyone knows, whether it be formally learned or just moral instinct. Of COURSE these people wouldn't want what they did to Mo to be done to them. But they're untouchable.

It's almost like group individuation. No longer is it ME doing this "bad thing," but everyone I know who is right here with me, supporting this. And, therefore, no one really needs to take responsibility. Because I'm acting as a part of a whole.

Just as we are all here as a group coming together, there are those who do these "bad things" out there doing the same.

We are ALL (obviously) angry about things in this neighborhood. I'm angry when I get harassed almost daily, minding my own business, walking home or to the store. I'm angry about the Mo incident. I'm angry at seeing men running by the laundrymat with guns after I heard gunshots. Some just have the capacity to take it to a physical level. I don't think I'll ever be able to understand that capability. I think that's the most terrifying thing about things like this that happen every day all over the world.

Sorry 'bout the rant. I'm bored on a rainy Sunday...