murder/suicide in fort greene

It broke my heart to listen to the news report yesterday. Just terrible.

Subject: Re: murder/suicide in fort greene

ltjbukem wrote: surprised no one's linked this yet...

http://ltjbukem.blogspot.com/2006/12/murder-suicide-on-north-portland.html

Unlucky but it doesn't mean that crime is rampant in the neighborhood.

tommyill wrote:
http://www.brooklyndowntownstar.com/StoryDisplay.asp?NewsStoryID=4983&PID=4&Headline=James to NYCHA: Get to Work

Good read. This part was especially frustrating:

The NYCHA panelists and many of their colleagues from the Housing Authority, however, were not there to stay for the duration of the subcommittee hearing.

Once Lopez, Cantillo, and the others had concluded their testimony and the council members their questions, NYCHA arose en masse to head back to the office. They left behind at least one staff person to witness the final part of the hearing: testimony from Whitman, Ingersoll, and Farragut tenants.

Lopez and many of her co-workers therefore missed the testimony read on behalf of Jenette Parks, a resident of Walt Whitman Houses for 36 years, who was too ill to come to the hearing herself. Hers is a common problem among tenants of the public housing system.

"When I complain about these things in the management office I'm called the Complaint Person. I've been told by housing assistants that I complain too much," Parks' testimony read.

"At first I took this as a little joke, but now I see it differently. We should all be complaining. We shouldn't have to live like this. This is where we live, and things should be done the proper way from the money that we pay in rent."

However, my curiosity about crime rates & policing in the public housing on Myrtle Avenue remains. I live an insulated middle class life further up Myrtle Avenue near block after block of brownstones. However the people in the projects live in my neighborhood too, and I'm curious what it's really like in the Whitman houses (crime-wise). I'm curious what the police are doing to fight crime. I'm curious what the tenants are doing to better their immediate community.

Anonymous wrote: You all need to go to the precinct council meeting for the area.

Agreed. So far I haven't managed to get off my lazy ass.