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Stop and Frisk controversy is growing

Stop and Frisk Part two. The way we discussed it on RNN-TV this week.

This as City and state legislators stood side by side with New York's congressional delegation in Washington, D.C. to demand that the Justice Department investigate the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policies.



Stop and Frisk is DEAD WRONG

It's wrong, wrong, wrong.

The Stop and Frisk practices of the New York Police Dept is NOT effective law enforcement against crime, it is racially profiling.

Young adults, boys and girls are being stopped, arrested, jailed and in many cases this high profile prace leads to conviction.

Law enforcement may see this as an effective way to fight crime and violence, but all it amounts too is a violation of one's rights.



Breathalyzers at the Prom?

Should there by Breathalyzers at the Prom?

Would it lead to kids (our children, sons & daughters) being arrested on one of their biggest nights and possibly facing conviction?

Would Police make such high profile arrest? What would a District Attorney do? Would the kids be disgraced for years to come. What would be the impact on the family.

What we know so far is that ultimately the young people could end up missing their graduation.


The Community Safety Initiative: a 15 Year Retrospective

EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN—Fifteen years ago today a major press conference was held on Riverdale Avenue in Brooklyn, NY to launch the Community Security Initiative (CSI), a project that sought to test if local police departments and community developers could work together to solve neighborhood problems, reduce crime, and improve overall quality of life.


NATIONAL NIGHT OUT - 2010

It's that time of the year again: NATIONAL NIGHT OUT! Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Location: EVERYWHERE in the United States.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT - 2010
Not sure where your local celebration is? Call your local police station or your elected officials. If there is no NNO celebration near you, DO YOUR OWN! Call you neighbors and friends, buy a big bag of charcoal and fire up that grill! Bring the kids out to play openly in the streets. Celebrate being good neighbors that look out for each other and say NO to violence, NO to crime, and NO to thinking that things can never get better.

It's also a great night to THANK your police partners and remind them that THEY ARE NOT ALONE in this fight, and that they absolutely need your help to achieve the true goal, which is not higher arrest rates but the ABSENCE of crime, something that you currently can't download and read on a CompStat report. Our goal must be to solve problems, and community partners are needed for that to happen.


CRIME, PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME, AND THE MEDIA

This week I read an article in Tuesday's Daily News titled, "Numbers show Brooklyn is safer than it's been in years, but residents still afraid of crime".

I have to say the article really bothered me a lot because it singles out the 75 Precinct and East New York. I live in the area covered by the 75th Precinct for 40+ years, and I've seen similar articles like this over the years, so while not surprising, it still bothers me all the same.



Ayers in NYT: "I never killed or injured anyone."

"I never killed or injured anyone." -- William Ayers in The New York Times, December 6, 2008.

The New York Times has no shame.

On June 9, 1970, New York City's police headquarters was bombed. Seven people were injured. Thousands of dollars of property damage was inflicted.

The Weather Underground--Ayers' group--was behind this bombing. We do not know if Ayers himself planned, assisted, and/or conducted the bombing. (We know that Jane Alpert was involved.) Personally, I believe that Ayers knew in advance about this bombing that injured several New Yorkers. Maybe in Ayers' mind this was a "protest of the Vietnam War," but this was a violent attack on New York City.



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