Sterling Place

Subject: White

MeggieC wrote: DB, I'm sorry about what happened to you. I actually came home from the Franklin Ave train stop maybe a half hour after you were assaulted, and I live right around the corner from you on Franklin.

Your assault reminds me of an experience an acquaintance told me about -- she was jumped by 5 or 6 young guys upon leaving the Franklin Ave stop, and she was robbed and beat up. Apparently though, she exited from a more secluded exit, and admonished me to leave the stop from the Franklin Ave exit. Didn't matter in your case though. I don't know if her mugging was racially influenced, ie, did they jump her b/c she is white? Would they have jumped a black woman walking alone? I wonder if it's the same group of young guys, and if so, why are they still running rampant -- she was assaulted/robbed more than 4 months ago.

I also have a friend who was mugged at knifepoint in Park Slope, and she wasn't alone. Different story, different area. They caught this guy, but not until he had robbed more than a dozen people. So even the gentrified areas are not safe.

I am really disappointed with how the police treated you. VICTIM BLAMING to the max, though not the classic example of "she was raped b/c she was dressed sexy." You were robbed b/c of where you chose to live? -- hah! what BS! You were robbed b/c some young people took advantage of you, in part b/c no one is policing an area that obviously needs attention. What happed to the motto, "to serve and protect?" I guess you only get protected if you live in segregation -- both racial and finanicial segregation. Sounds bitter.

These things, and other postings make me wonder if its only a matter of time before my luck runs out. I will most certainly attend the community/police board meetings that I can, starting with tonight. I at least want to do something with my own bitterness... EVERYONE COME OUT, lets blow them away!

King without a crown wrote: Pioneers will continue to move into Crown Heights for many reasons.However, there is a price to pay for your considerabley less rent then other blossoming communities in Brooklyn. People get robbed every day Crown Heights and with over 20 people shot in the 77 pct alone in the last month, i just cant imagine where all the police are. Could they be out there solving Homicides or trying to foil Robberies? It would be great to flood the community with cops on every corner, but unfortunately with the police dept facing record low staffing and a starting salary of $25,100 its amazing that there are any cops left at all. With cops making a mass exodus to other depts and retiring in drones, one might think thats where the outrage might be directed. So the next time you're strolling down lovely Franklin ave, weaving in and out of the drug dealers and gang members, you can thank your mayor for safest largest city in the world. Dont worry those gunshots you're hearing at night are just Celebratory gunfire. Booyakashot

young snitch wrote: the overwhelming majority of posts on the crown heights board are from new residents nervous about gunshots, assaults and crime. i could care less who's a gentrifier or who's a yuppie -- so stop taking criticism towards the board's zeitgeist of fear and general lameness as an indictment of an entire demographic. the segment of the ven diagram where gentrifier/yuppies and shook ones overlap just seems to include a lot of the people who make these posts.

RACIAL PROFILE UPROAR

By LARRY CELONA and KATE SHEEHY

October 9, 2006 -- An NYPD Transit captain in Brooklyn ordered his officers to stop all black male teens at a Park Slope subway station in response to robberies there, sources said yesterday.

Capt. Michael Vanchieri, head of Transit District 30, first issued the potentially explosive edict at a meeting with his sergeants and lieutenants last week, the sources said. He then allegedly repeated it to officers during Friday's roll call.

The order was in response to robberies at the Seventh Avenue F-line station in the tony neighborhood, sources said.

The cops were told to question the teens and fill out "250s" - forms that the department uses to track down suspects and link them to crimes, sources said.

The move by Vanchieri, who is white, immediately drew ire from some officers, the sources and union officials said.

"Ordering police officers to stop every black male teenager is against the department's racial-profiling prohibition and creates more trouble for the officers than it will solve," said Patrick Lynch, head of the Pa trolmen's Benevolent Asso ciation.

Civil-rights lawyer Nor man Siegel said the move dangerously creates a "black teen database."

"Even assuming there's an increase in robberies in that neighborhood, race and being a teenager are not sufficient to stop people and profile them," he said.

Vanchieri could not be reached for comment.

But NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said in a statement, "The allegation is false."

"The captain appropriately provided the roll call with details of pattern robberies. These included descriptions of suspects responsible for three robberies over the last two weeks, with instructions to question individuals matching the description on the portion of the subway line where the robberies occurred," he said.

John Driscoll, president of the Captains' Endowment Association, said, "I don't know if [Vanchieri] said it or didn't say it.

"But I will say, any comment made by Pat Lynch or the PBA is usually self-serving," Driscoll said. "Normally, the PBA takes stances against anybody in the captain's rank or above."

Still, Eric Adams, head of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, said that "250" forms have been "abusively used in targeting African American young men" in the past.

"We're going to go to the Seventh Avenue station and do observations," he said.

"If this is happening, it is alarming."