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A gunman in a white Cadillac Escalade opened fire on a Clinton Hill bodega last night, striking a pregnant woman and two men who were standing inside. The perp began shooting at the DeKalb Gourmet Deli near the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Kent Avenue at around 7 pm, hitting a 15-year-old boy in the arm and torso, a 20-year-old man in the leg, and a pregnant 24-year-old in the upper thigh.
The bodega's cashier told the Times that the pregnant victim appeared to be the most seriously injured. “It all happened in a second; it was just like one, two, and then everyone ran to the back,” said the employee, who in the aftermath of the shooting wrapped a towel around the woman's wound. “I was just scared about the lady. She kept on opening and closing her eyes. I said, ‘Just keep your eyes open.’"
The Daily News notes that police have made no arrests, and it remains unclear who the gunman was intending to target in the drive-by. Though all of the victims are in stable condition, the Post reports that the pregnant victim is in a tough spot. According to the tabloid, without surgery, the woman might lose her leg — but if she goes under anesthesia, she could lose her baby.
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It's kind of a problem the 88th precinct is a stone's throw from the projects here, but that it's out of their jurisdiction.
I have several friends who live in Clinton Hill, so this is pretty disconcerting, to say the least.
If there's one vehicle that absolutely needs to be banned, it's the Escalade.
That makes no sense and has nothing to do with this, so just stop.
I think he is cracking a joke on the knee-jerk reactions that a lot of commenters have on this blog.
C'mon Edge, GM is having a tough enough time.
Your face makes no sense and has nothing to do with this, so just stop.
A Government Motors vehicle doing a drive-by in a Government Housing neighborhood- makes perfect sense!
i live a block from there; something happens on that corner every couple months. across the street is a main entrance to the housing projects. then the police cars come and block off the street for a couple hours and then leave like nothing ever happened. they never step up their patrols of the block.
and amen to post #1. it's total bullshit that their is a precinct 2 BLOCKS from there and they won't/can't do anything about the crime. these imaginary divisions between neighborhoods (precincts) allow the officers in that precinct to slack off. i've gone in there a few times or called to report things happening on my block (like a woman shooting up on the stoop while children played in the street) and they use the standard "not our jurisdiction" excuse while officers are just sitting around the building. sure, maybe the nypd works hard 50% of the time, but the other 50% they think of excuses for avoiding making a difference in our communities. first responders should be based on proximity to the crime, not precincts.
maybe that's not the answer, but they need a serious overhaul of their inefficient system. what they need is some design thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking
Or maybe after time #1, you would report it to the proper precinct (or 911). Don't worry, I'm sure there's people "just sitting around the building there too". Because obviously there should be no sitting in police work. And it doesn't seem like they would need 50% of their time to think of excuses, since they already have the "standard 'not in our jurisdiction'". It's odd you would continue to report it to the very people you know cannot do anything about it, regardless whether that is right or wrong.
Actually, it's not the response that's a problem - after all it was officers from the 88th who showed up first afterwards, according to the Times article. It's that there's no preventative measures taken by the precinct - they literally don't pay attention to what happens across the street.
And anyway, who thought it was a good idea to draw the boundaries so the precinct house is right on the border of their jurisdiction, instead of more centrally?
I'd be curious to know if the actual rate of crime is any lower in the vicinity of the actual precinct house around the city. In theory, locating the station houses more centrally would make this particular situation worse since then there would be no local police station house.
they should have shot up the hipster housing on taffee place.
maybe the rents will go down to pre-hipster levels when they run back home.
"gourmet" deli next to "luxury" apartments.
Isn't that considered Bed Sty? I thought once you cross classon towards bedsty which is 79 pct jurisdiction, that's bed sty??
That's actually bed stuy.
Nothing like that would ever happen in Clinton Hill!
Why with it's lovely brownstones and proximity to Pratt...
What will it take to get rid of these damn projects already.
Sense.
This is bed-stuy, no?
This is exactly the reason that padmapper shows you a half dozen pins in park slope but 800 pins in prospect heights...