Oy. On Spotcrime and Twitter comes word of man shot and killed in his car at 102 Sterling. Anyone have more info? Grisly.
UPDATE FROM VINNY: Yesterday, Thursday,
February 7, 2013 at approximately 7PM a 911 call was placed for a man
bleeding in front of 102 Sterling Street. When NYPD arrived they found
one male black with a gunshot wound to his head sitting in the driver
seat of a 2004 Lexus sedan. The victim was taken to KCH in critical
condition and is not expected to recover. Anyone with information please
call the 71 Precinct Detectives at 718-735-0501.
UPDATE FROM LEWIS: Victim lived at 201 Linden, between Rogers and Nostrand. Sterling 1 is not a block associated with crime in the view of the precinct. Two experienced homicide detectives are on the case, though it may be hard to uncover the evidence needed.
Would appear this was very much an assassination, gangland style. And as we all know, it's hard to get people involved in this world to talk. Folks, we have to do something about these guys, many of whom have rap sheets longer than the dead sea scrolls. Other nabes have chased the gangs away...we can too.
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Saw the aftermath at 8:45. Street still closed off at 10:00. Univision/Noticias 41 news van was there but seemed to have stopped reporting. I don't see anything on their website and missed the broadcast. Anyone watch that broadcast? Look forward to more details coming out and hope the person shot is able to recover or have a cessation of their pain.
Surreally, I came across this a minute after watching a parade of 20 men wearing top hats and 20 women dressed in befeathered hats and other 1910s clothes. As if there was a neighborhood party when the neighborhood was being built. Turns out, a film production was using Grace Reformed's chapel as a holding area last night. Enchanting moment--until I was snapped back to present-day reality. Do hope we can find out more bout this crime.
Apologies, "recover" came from original report. Do hope that detectives get to the bottom of this.
From what I understand, the 71st needs to add this block of Sterling to the discussion at the meeting on quality of life issues. I knew somebody who rented a very nice house on Sterling a few years ago on the same block as this shooting. She told me there was what to her was an obvious gang house across the street from her. With lots of comings and goings at all hours of the night and cars like Lexus and Mercedes pulling up and people running in to get something or make dropoffs. If they'd been owners not renters maybe they'd have organized and made calls but in their case they just moved. If this house is still there and there really is a gang element there then that block needs to do something. The residents of the block itself are essential to have on board in combating a specific problem location.
Clarkson Flatbed writes:
Would appear this was very much an assassination, gangland style. And as we all know, it's hard to get people involved in this world to talk.
In response to a previous post, I think I mentioned the "stop snitchin" attitude, which you downplayed at the time.
Now you're acknowledging the existence of this wall of silence. That's a start.
Stop & Frisk. It'll take a lot of thugs out of the game for a while, at least.
Stop and Frisk isn't going to stop these kinds of killings. I've been told these guys hide their guns for use at just the "right" moment. Drugs too. These are professional organized crime types...not as organized as Tony Soprano, but not stupid either. Once you're involved in this world, it's not called "snitchin'" It's saving your hide by not talking to cops at all.
When I say it's hard to get people to talk, I'm talking about the hardened criminals that the detectives already know are involved, directly or tangentially. To call informing on a murder "snitching" is belittling the crime. Sure, sometimes witnesses don't want to talk. Many reasons, least of all fear of being targeted by someone with a gun. I hardly call that snitchin. That's survival.
The culture of silence you referred to was about blacks protecting blacks by not telling on them. It's a long held fantasy that blacks somehow conspire together to keep the police from doing their jobs. HOWEVER, given the antagonistic relationship between the black community and cops (needless shootings of unarmed people, harassment and wrongful arrests, unwarranted stop-and-frisks, police brutality) the cops have to work harder to earn the trust of some in the community. Perhaps if you, sir, had been the victim of dozens of baseless frisks by the cops based on your appearance, you'd have a tiny sense of what you're dealing with.
By the way, cop PRESENCE is every bit as effective as S&F. Where are the uniformed beat officers? Well, we're told they're coming...
And let me tell you something else Mr. Story. I have also had a hard time finding white folk who want to openly address the drug and gang thing out of fear, not of the cops, but of the gangs themselves. There's plenty of fear in the air. And clearly, lots of ignorance too.
Clarkson Flatbed writes:
It's a long held fantasy that blacks somehow conspire together to keep the police from doing their jobs.
Fantasy? You're pretty good at contradicting yourself, as your next sentence shows.
HOWEVER, given the antagonistic relationship between the black community and cops (needless shootings of unarmed people, harassment and wrongful arrests, unwarranted stop-and-frisks, police brutality) the cops have to work harder to earn the trust of some in the community.
You not only confirm the practice of giving the cops the silent treatment, you provide its rationale.
Perhaps if you, sir, had been the victim of dozens of baseless frisks by the cops based on your appearance, you'd have a tiny sense of what you're dealing with.
Oh. Every black in NY City is frisked "dozens of times"? Baselessly? As though there's no basis for judging a book by its cover?
Now you're defending the thugs, and your defense suggests it's the presence of cops that inspires more crime.
Hopes for gentrifying some neighborhoods are likely to fade as it becomes understood that too few whites are displacing too few blacks. The tipping point that favors the good guys is likely to remain permanently out of reach.
Wow, we really do have a diverse community! We even have our very own racist troll.
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