Category Archives: Crime and Police

Be Careful Where You Eat Your Doughnuts

Posted on June 8, 2011 by The Changeling

Enjoying Dough’s delicious doughnuts in the playground may land you in court.
We received an email this week from a woman who received a summons for enjoying a doughnut in the playground across the street from Dough. Here’s the lowdown:
My boyfriend and I visited the doughnut shop Dough, on the corner of Layfayette and Franklin, [...]

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Peeping Tom on the Loose

Posted on April 19, 2011 by The Changeling

I just received this email from a reader:
Tonight around 11pm there was a skinny black male in a brown leather jacket peeping into our window. A neighbor saw him the other night doing it as well. We live on Hancock between Throop and Marcus Garvey. When he heard the door open he ran down [...]

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Crime in the Hood

Posted on March 30, 2011 by The Changeling

I’ve gotten a couple of emails about crime in different parts of the neighborhood:
Email #1
Hello, I’m a frequent reader of Bed-Stuy Blog and I live in the neighborhood.  I just wanted to let you and the other folks who are in the neighborhood know that I was attacked and mugged last night after getting off the Kingston Throop [...]

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NY Daily News on Bed-Stuy: We Make Us Better

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Vettievette

Caught this interesting NY Daily News article on a group of men who’ve been escorting commuters from the Utica Avenue stop and reaching out to the young men of our community.

Courtesy of NY Daily News

“They’re not part of a political club, they don’t come from any one church and they’ve never been particularly active in [...]

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MXGM Police Accountability and Community Safety Town Hall Meeting

Posted on July 13, 2010 by The Changeling

[ July 18, 2010; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
“They don’t own the block. We own the block. They might live there, but we own the block. We own the streets here.”
—81st Precinct Lieutenant, NYPD

OUR HOOD OR THEIR HOOD?

This Sunday there will be a community forum on how to stay safe without relying on the police, stop police terror, and take back our hood.

Hosted [...]

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NYPD Tapes 4: The Whistleblower

Posted on June 17, 2010 by The Changeling

The Village Voice is back with the latest installment of the NYPD tapes! This time the article focuses on Adrian Schoolcraft, who turns out to be a latter-day Serpico.
In case you missed the previous articles in this amazing series, you can read them here:
NYPD Tapes Part 1: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct
NYPD Tapes [...]

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Rally & Remembrance for Chanel Petro-Nixon

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ June 19, 2010; 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. ] On Fathers Day, 2006, Chanel Petro-Nixon, a 16-year-old honor student at Boys & Girls High School in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, left her home to fill out a job application at Applebee’s Restaurant in Restoration Plaza on Fulton Street. She never made it to Applebee’s. Four days later, her body was found in a [...]

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The NYPD and the Downgrading of Sexual Assaults

Posted on June 9, 2010 by The Changeling

The Village Voice is back with the latest installment of the NYPD tapes! This time the article focuses on the downgrading of sexual assault cases.
In case you missed the previous articles in the series, you can read them here:
NYPD Tapes Part 1: Inside Bed-Stuy’s 81st Precinct
NYPD Tapes Part 2

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Rash of Roof Break-Ins in the Neighborhood

Posted on June 7, 2010 by The Changeling

This weekend I received this from a reader who lives on Quincy near Throop. He is hoping to spread the word so that others won’t have the same experience:

Could you please put the word out that there has been a rash of home break-ins lately? It appears as though some people are specializing in [...]

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The NYPD Tapes-81st Precinct Part 2

Posted on May 12, 2010 by The Changeling

Here’s the second part of the Village Voice article on the aggressive arrest campaign by the 81st precinct. The article reveals that these aggressive methods led to stop-and-frisks increasing by 900% in the neighborhood, and describes the police state that the 81st has become. Have any of you experienced or seen this type [...]

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