Liquor store incident, shomrim in general....

Empire Liquor, located at Empire and Brooklyn

"At around noon on Friday, two men entered Responsible Liquor on Empire Boulevard; the owner noticed that their behavior was suspicious and furtive, so he kept a close eye on them. Sure enough, one of them slipped a bottle of expensive tequila under his coat and they both ran out of the store.

The storeowner chased them down Empire Blvd. and up Kingston Ave. until the corner of Montgomery Street, when the thief – a tall and well-built young man – turned around and assaulted the storeowner – lifting him off his feet and body-slamming him onto the pavement.

The commotion caught the attention of a Shomrim volunteer on Kingston Ave., who called for backup and gave chase to the perpetrator. A call was immediately put in to 911 as per Shomrim protocol.

The volunteers chased the thief until they managed to corner him on Carroll St. between Albany and Troy. At that moment, police arrived and ordered the man to surrender. The man refused to comply with police orders, and the officer was compelled to draw his firearm and warn the man of dire consequences if he continued to resist.

The man finally relented and was taken into custody. He was charged with robbery and assault.

Meanwhile, Hatzalah arrived at the scene of the assault and treated the storeowner for his injuries."

I am told Shomrim also responds to incidents in which the CALLER lives in its catchment and is not Jewish.

Very true. Sorry to state the obvious, but alcohol tends to closely correlate with poor decision making.

Re: Shomrim being only for the jews

...Well even though they state they will respond to anyone who calls who is in need of assistance, I think it is reasonable to expect that the vast majority of those served will be jewish as a result of how its catchment area is defined.

Their facebook page isn't update regualrly and doesn't define a catchment area, but there is one.

As one might expect, it matches the area where their volunteers live.

https://www.facebook.com/crownheights.shomrim

...which makes total sense to me.

In this recent instance, Shomrim was called by residents to aid a jewish guy who was robbed, and then (a few nights later) a young black woman who had just been shot.

http://crownheights.info/crime/472948/teenage-girl-shot-3-times-on-maple-and-kingston/

Apparently they will respond to calls at Kingston and Maple, which is pretty far into PLG.

http://goo.gl/maps/kIl86

I no longer regard Wingate as a place, so in my mind, PLG becomes Flatbush on something like Utica.

Regardless, I am surprised Shomrim goes as far south as Kingston and Maple.

I think of the area as nicer than East Flatbush, so I am giving it to PLG, whether "they" want it or not.

That is good to know. I am down there very rarely, so it came as a surprise to me.

BTW, the police have arrested a suspect re: the recent street robberies and shootings.

http://crownheights.info/crime/473170/police-arrest-man-in-attempted-mugging-suspected-in-2-previous-incidents/

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150216/crown-heights/ex-con-arrested-for-shooting-at-3-people-crown-heights-robbery-spree

An article about Brooklyn's Shomrims will run in tomorrow's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/brooklyns-private-jewish-patrols-wield-power-some-call-them-bullies.html