Senator To Citizens: What Can You Do For Your Borough?
By Nicole Brydson
At a local meeting on crime, the message was clear: citizens, engage your community and get involved or these tough times will only get worse.
At a local meeting on crime, the message was clear: citizens, engage your community and get involved or these tough times will only get worse.
Two men were shot at dinner time on July 30, at a restaurant on Franklin Avenue and Dean Street.
In spite of the menial attention garnered by Brooklyn’s violent and pervasive drug trade in the local news media, borough residents are making sure you’ve heard about their loved one, or even strangers, senselessly gunned down – but they’re not snitching.
There was an elephant in the basement of Berean Baptist Church in Crown Heights on Monday, when Police Commissioner Ray Kelly spent an hour addressing the questions of residents concerned with violence, drugs and quality of life issues on the streets of the 77th precinct in Brooklyn.
That elephant came in the form of allegations that officers from the 77th assaulted two lesbian women outside of a local nightclub while spewing anti-gay remarks. The question never came up during the meeting and the commissioner gave a terse “no comment” when confronted with it on his way out the door.
