Media coverage of recent crime spree in Prospect Heights

Maybe cause it's not much different than some other neighborhoods?
Just a guess.

I haven't actually been following the super-local media, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Papers etc. but you can always send them a suggestion . . .

I'd like to see some real depth, but I barely know where they'd get the figures from . . .
What do you want to see?

SirSterling wrote: I have lived in three different spots within Brooklyn & I have never heard gun shots. I moved over here last summer and until last week I never heard shots fired. It was pretty scary hearing them, we must have been close, then we heard the police helicopter. Honestly, it was more scary than the bad storms that produced that tornado.

when i used to live in the east village (7th btw C & D) in '96, i heard gang fights where i would look out the window and the street would be filled with kids --- like a subway car packed at rush hour --- but very rarely would gun shots be heard. since then i have lived in various neighborhoods in manhattan, queens, and brooklyn --- never anywhere fancy but still this is the first NYC neighborhood where i have heard gunshots and actually seen people who have been shot.

although, when i lived in bed-stuy i did live in a house which neighbored a house that had a shoot out with the cops --- but that's still seems different than random shooting and drive-bys --- plus it only happened once.

my gf witnessed a shooting on a main street in Chapel Hill, NC.

some people get unlucky and see horrible shit.

evan wrote: what makes you think prospect heights is special? what makes you think this "crime spree" is worse than a typical month in any other neighborhood in NYC? seriously, posts on this board often make me feel that people here pay absolutely no attention to anything outside of their own daily lives.

WNYC mentioned a spike in homicided in the 77th precinct in reference to the 12 year old girl who got shot last week, so its not totally fugazi. You can check the NYPD website if you want tp earn special points, but I'll take WNYC's word for it.

In general this neighborhood is pretty damn safe with the exception with the hot blocks (St. Johns and Lincoln). It's not worth whatever you're saving to live on those blocks. Drug commerce is too entrenched. It doesn't matter that you're "cool" with the guys on your stoop. Randomness jumps off way too often over there.

Here's the Sterling Place story:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/31/2007-08-31_cops_hunt_thugs_in_familys_rape_nightmar.html

somehow these numbers aren't comforting when they're happening in your backyard.

for 2005 crown heights had like 12 murders and almost all of them were between acquaintances. maybe i'm jaded, but that doesn't seem all that bad to me.

and do we really need to have a conversation about the relationship between class and violent crime to understand why there are very very few murders in affluent areas while there are many in poor neighborhoods?

i'm not saying that people shouldn't hope for and work for safer neighborhoods and a safer city, but per capita NYC, even brooklyn and the bronx, are incredibly safe and the crime that exists has existed for a long time. i don't understand when people seem surprised.

i guess i might sound insensitive but i just get tired of people being overly afraid of their own communities and just overly afraid in general.