the word "twaddle" made my night 2 nite. sadly.

I don't a reasonable assumption is that if the particular cops who had been assigned to the Obama rally had instead been assigned elsewhere, they would have been in Crown Heights arresting a rapist. Williamsburg and Crown Heights are not in the same precinct. This is a big city. That's just a silly thing to write, filled with the useless bitterness someone says who's just gotten a ticket. "Doesn't this cop have something better to do?" No, this was where he was assigned.

of course, this site is a blog creature and has never been about investigative journalism, but that final sentence is just plain dumb twaddle, not even close to redeeming twaddle, especially when you mix it with a rape story.

"The point Jen made, which I think is right, is that some of those cops who were busy arresting people in Williamsburg would have been more useful on patrol."

best.

post.

ever.

A while back, medical evidence suggested that watermelon had effects similar to Viagra. Perhaps, for some areas, watermelon should be prescription only just like Viagra. Maybe then rapes like this won't occur as much.

"I hate to accept the fact that this site is little more than people my age surfing the web for me."

Yet that's what it is. That's what it's always been. Decry the lack of investigative journalism all you like, but has there ever been a single occurrence of it here?

If that's what you want, you have to go someplace else. This isn't the place. The closest you'll get here is a link to an investigative piece on a news site. So convenient: someone will have already surfed it for you.

"Rapist" at large in Brooklyn? As in singular? I wish it were true.

^

Peacefully assembled"?

Screaming, drunken crowds do not "peacefully assemble' at 2 in the morning.

Your right to make a racket at 2 am ends where other people's eardrums begin.

Also too, Hitlerbaby, detectives look for rapists AFTER the crime is committed. The point Jen made, which I think is right, is that some of those cops who were busy arresting people in Williamsburg would have been more useful on patrol. They can't be everywhere at once, but the whole Bedford/North 7th police presence was overkill. Real crime was happening while they were busy pushing around people who had peacefully assembled.

editorial remark at the end of a post about a rapist is fucking lousy, childish idiocy.

Is the irony of this comment coming from one whose login name is "hitlerbaby" striking anyone else as incredibly awesome?

"blogging has to be the mutually exclusion of the journalism of "news sites"'

XD what? a typo?

go away, psycho.

@7 -

listen, mensch:

You may be satisfied being a fucking drip, but who's to say that blogging has to be the mutually exclusion of the journalism of "news sites" (you like snarky, shitty quotation marks, i like snarky shitty quotation marks...let's go get a tom collins, ya?)

I'd like to think some of us are here with the small hope of pushing the redefinition of media in a changing social/informational paradigm. And writing a fatuous and largely unrelated (detectives go after rapists, Jen, not riot cops, the latter are there only to pummel your idiotic contemporaries back to 1984) editorial remark at the end of a post about a rapist is fucking lousy, childish idiocy.

Just because you found the word blog there does not mean that this is some site about some narcissists eating/shopping habits. Couldn't we have a little more sense?

I hate to accept the fact that this site is little more than people my age surfing the web for me.

"perhaps the cops brought in with riot gear that night to take care of the Obama victory revelers could have been used elsewhere?"

yes, this sentiment seems awfully familiar.

this is an unfortunate example of the pigs not doing their jobs.

"can we have a little more investigative journalism here and less bloggy horseshit editorial twaddle?"

"Gothamist is the first site in the Gothamist LLC network of blogs and is the most popular local blog in New York."

Just a quote to help re-orient you, since you apparently don't know where you are. Personally, I come here for the bloggy twaddle, and find my "investigative journalism" on news sites.

Hugo_Mego really loves the word "neo-libs".

They should make special prisons for rapists, simply big deep holes in the ground with little light or fresh air.

As for Hugo Mego, don't let that putz bait you.

What on earth does a rapist in Crown Heights have to do with election night in Williamsburg?? Have you gone mad? How can you possibly justify mentioning rape in the same paragraph? I think that really crosses a line.

"Meanwhile, perhaps the cops brought in with riot gear that night to take care of the Obama victory revelers could have been used elsewhere?"

can we have a little more investigative journalism here and less bloggy horseshit editorial twaddle?

hahaha, stupidest funniest comment evar.

Oh yeah, blame the cops for having cops at the cult of Obama rally. Sure, it's the cops fault that this cult of Obama member is going around raping people. Neo-libs will always blame everyone but the criminal, SHEESH!