Muggings in Park Slope?

The only one I've heard abot is that Douglas Rushkoff (he's a fairly well-known writer) was mugged at knifepoint on Christmas Eve in front of his place in Park Slope. He blogged about it here. But I just noticed when I went to look up that link to post here that there are some other Park Slope muggings mentioned in one the comments responding to it.

He says (in a response in the comments on that post) that the cops told him this:

I guess it was the cops who got me thinking about it as a Brooklyn thing. Not the first cops who said I should have fought back, but the detectives who said the Slope is getting progressively worse - that they've got real problems patroling with such budget cuts, and that violent crime has been rising quite steadily for the past year or so. Not in the whole of Brooklyn - but here. Especially against women in the park. And then they drew the circle around Park Slope, and showed me how by being just inside the circle, I end up being the easiest target because they don't have to go too far into the rich white area. It's the edges where the most action happens - the edges of gentification, that is.

"I end up being the easiest target because they don't have to go too far into the rich white area. It's the edges where the most action happens -"

Man that is sooooooooo racist. That's assuming that the muggers are non-white - or why would they have qualms about going into a white nabe. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read on this board!

This attitude is what's wrong with America.

mypasswordwontwork wrote: This attitude is what's wrong with America.

do you care to elaborate?

mypasswordwontwork wrote: "I end up being the easiest target because they don't have to go too far into the rich white area. It's the edges where the most action happens -"

Man that is sooooooooo racist. That's assuming that the muggers are non-white - or why would they have qualms about going into a white nabe. That is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read on this board!

Um. I just want to point out that I was posting a quote from another website and it wasn't me who said that. That's all.

If i was poor and a criminal. live close to a rich area. i would go to rich area to rob. thats where the money is. simple common sense. edges of rich areas is easy access and quick escape back home.

armchair_warrior wrote: If i was poor and a criminal. live close to a rich area. i would go to rich area to rob. thats where the money is. simple common sense. edges of rich areas is easy access and quick escape back home.

I agree with this.

What I disagree with is the way race is brought into it: the whole muggers=black people who storm into "rich WHITE areas" thing. Especially considering this Rushkoff person himself is far from a "rich white" and isactually so broke that he has to work two extra jobs.

Slightly offtopic: but I see dozens of home-owning Hispanics and blacks in the north Park Slope area: especially Lincoln and Douglass between 5th and 6th and between 4th and 5th. And also on Union between 4th and 5th. Or are these very Hispanic and black looking people actually rich white people with extremely deep suntans?

Do any of you realize that a lot of muggers are actually white??

And that the majority of whites are not rich and are in fact often criminally active? This is the reality that you guys seem either unaware of or unable to accept. Its very very smug and pompous to assume that non-whites are some kind of underclass who just want to pillage and loot the so-called rich white areas. My next door neighbor here in the Slope happens to be a Hispanic woman who owns her whole brownstone and rents one floor of it out to a couple of rather skanky looking whites. She bought the building six years ago.

Cabaki wrote: My roommmate was mugged by some junior high school kids on my block at 2am and he had only been in NYC 6 months. I've lived in NYC my entire life and have never have been mugged, and I walk around at late nites alone.

I think alot of it is luck, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I dont doubt i will probably get mugged eventually, thats why I carry a high decibel alarm around my keychain for when it happens.

I too have lived in Brooklyn all my life and have had my ass kicked by a rainbow of people. That stopped when I turned 14 or 15. That is when my permanent war face aka my "don't fuck with me" face kicked in. This effect only happens to big city folk, usually during or right after puberty. Well, maybe not to the Manhattanites who live south of E. & W. 96th Street/s. Their idea of living dangerously in NYC is taking the IRT to Yankee stadium or a yellow cab to JFK.

Idlewild wrote: [quote=Cabaki]My roommmate was mugged by some junior high school kids on my block at 2am and he had only been in NYC 6 months. I've lived in NYC my entire life and have never have been mugged, and I walk around at late nites alone.

I think alot of it is luck, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I dont doubt i will probably get mugged eventually, thats why I carry a high decibel alarm around my keychain for when it happens.

Well, maybe not to the Manhattanites who live south of E. & W. 96th Street/s. Their idea of living dangerously in NYC is taking the IRT to Yankee stadium or a yellow cab to JFK.

I just have an image of Idlewild getting his ass kicked by the "rainbow people"

Flexichick wrote: I just have an image of Idlewild getting his ass kicked by the "rainbow people"

They were mostly out of control , thirtysomething hippies and Hare Krishnas. Then Reagan was voted into office.................

armchair_warrior wrote: [quote=mypasswordwontwork][quote=armchair_warrior]i been mug too many times in my life in pre mid 90's. only one mugger was white.

Interesting that you've been mugged so often. Sorry to hear that only one of your muggers was white. That must have been an especially upsetting factor for you.

. guy ask for money, i ask to see weapon. weapon produce. .

You actually asked them to SHOW you the weapon? Lol. You're quite brave.

Are you by any chance Asian or Pacific Islander? I ask because I've often heard/read that, unfortunately, these ethnic groups are more likely to get mugged. Not sure why that would be.

ETA: I just clicked on your pic and you look Asian.

armchair_warrior wrote:

yeah being asian sucks cause most asian guys/girls are targets, people view my group as easy targets and they dont call the cops or fight back or speak english etc...

That sucks. Sorry about that. With all the stereotypes that are out there, I'm surprised these idiot muggers don't assume that you'd have amazing martial arts skills that you could use to kick their asses.

Armchair, you are cute, by the way.