Gothamist: Jewish Auxiliary Police Groups at War with Each Other

Snoopy

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:59:54 -0500

True the Nazis allowed the Jews to have their own police force in the Warsaw Ghetto, but after realizing their mistake they corrected it. Permanently.

maricopafreedom

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:12:33 -0500

Shmira has a blog where they actually posted pictures of accused (by them) minors who weren't arrested for any crime. When I commented on the blog that I thought that was wrong, they changed my comment to say that it was "wonderful." Given this small experience, I wouldn't want to work with them either. They don't seem like they really care about their community.

felixthecat

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:03:56 -0500

they don't own the neighborhood and they should not have their own police force. What a crazy sick vicious group

schadenfreudian mensch

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:30:36 -0500

@TJ I don't see the problem TJ. If the Nazi were willing to let the Jews have their own police force in the Warsaw Ghetto why not New York City. Makes perfect sense to me.

Future Taliban

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:14:40 -0500

Wait til more Muslims move into the area and start their own "Taliban" patrols. Then we'll have recreated the perfect miniature Arab-Israeli conflict and we can charge admission to let viewers watch them blow each others heads off.

Snoopy

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:45:54 -0500

Is this another of those "never again" groups? And have the same mentality that all white people enslaved the blacks? And people keep bitching about the average American arming themselves.

edEx

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:03:32 -0500

Hatzoloh is not just in nyc. it's in a lot of nations. it was started here, but has expanded.

Agnostic Farts

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:12 -0500

now imagine if the rastas in crown heights wanted to start up their own little neighborhood policing group...

Snoopy

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:27:10 -0500

This really calls into question that peace in the middle east is obtainable.

Tgirl

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:23:20 -0500

can't we all get along?

Jewssip

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:09:31 -0500

Sounds like there's some new crosstown beef going on and it's kosher. Watch out the blood and the crips, jets and the sharks, here comes Shmira and Shomrim! www.jewssip.com- Celebrity News From a Higher Authority

TJ

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:41:22 -0500

Here is a neighborhood police blog: http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?catid=23&blogid=1 Sounds like the producers of COPS should consider a spin-off to me.

TJ

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:37:52 -0500

This is quite amusing. My favorite is their wanna-be NYPD car: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/thecity/01patr.html?scp=1&sq=shmira&st=cse Just like this community needs their own ambulances (Hatzoloh) they apparently need their own police as well.

Wza

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:26:45 -0500

Yep ^

SC

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:22:27 -0500

I think it's wrong to refer to these groups as "auxiliary" police groups, lest they be confused with the NYPD's actual auxiliary police force -- which is subject to the oversight and training of a real law enforcement agency. These are nothing more than vigilantes, IMO. "Private crime-control?"