Yes, it is their most offensive piece to date and I will be addressing the horrendous, gentrification video that they posted.
If this isn't an "I told ya so," about Ben and Liena, I don't know what is.
I will have a piece up tomorrow on this.
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It's not whites who are shooting guns around here. It's black and hispanic thugs:
ReplyDeleteOn Recent Gun Violence
June 18th, 2010 10:02 am
I talked to Ralph Monteforte, commanding officer of the 70th Precinct, yesterday about the recent shootings – there have been 16 this year.
In response to the recent spike in shootings (4 in 2 weeks is unusual), additional police forces have been brought in from outside the borough, the Gang Task Force, Narcotics Task Force and others are all out there. There is a marked increase in both uniformed and undercover cops out within the impact zone.
And while to us it seems like more than in years past, he reassured that it is still nothing compared to 10 years ago, and that what we are seeing is not that much out of ordinary, rather due to us reporting on all the shootings, whereas in the past they went largely unreported.
Almost all of the shootings have taken place within the “Impact zone”, which runs from East 18th to Bedford, and Prospect Park to Clarendon.
There have been a couple of isolated shootings over by Avenue J and E12st street, gang related, and the perpetrators of those have been caught and arrested.
Temporary headquarters (a bus) is currently installed on Clarendon and Flatbush.
Gun arrests are way up. However, there have been no arrests made in the more recent shootings, and victims are rather uncooperative.
Uncooperative victims make the job so much harder for the police, and they are asking neighbors to please come forward – witnesses become crucial in solving the cases.
If you saw something, or even heard something from your neighbors relating the shootings – please contact the detective squad at (718) 851-5553.
Most of the victims live in the neighborhood (within 70th Precinct), and historically most of the shootings have been solved within the precinct – meaning that the perpetrators live here too.