Dear NYPD, please stop busting drug traffickers. People need those drugs!

Racist bunch of Racists. The people in these housing projects, (the word ghetto in and of itself when talking about a low income housing project is racist) are not the one doing the smack. More often than not it is people from outside the neighborhood from upper crust communities. But hey if you want to place blame on the minorities for every article published on this site go ahead.

So your theory is that upper crust people from outside the neighborhood are wandering into the ghetto and picking gunfights and knifefights with people? Sorry, but that's a load of crap, and your cries of "racism!" don't add any credibility to your story.

Please read my response to you on the post about the poor 15-year-old who had his face slashed. Then go away.

If you have a criminal history, especially one involving a drug bust in the housing projects where you reside, why then are you allowed to mooch off tax payer subsidized houseing all over again?

Here's a response I received a while back from the NYCHA, with regards to animal abuse in a PJ elevator:

"In responding to your inquiry, I contacted Rollin Deas, Manager of Grant Houses who advised me that he does follow-up on all police reports and violations that he may receive. Any resident that is found in violation of their Resident Lease Agreement or the Authority’s Pet Policy will be subject to an administrative action that may result in their eviction. I can assure that the appropriate action is being taken in regards to the elevator incident."

Vague much? Also, I like the bit about "action that MAY result in their eviction". What a joke. I hope that the perp in this case was evicted, but given the culture of "life without consequences" that exists in these hellholes, I sincerely doubt that such severe action was taken.

And lots of them looks like heroin addicts in the UK public houing.

The council housing in the UK has dog fighting, throwing digs down elevator shaft. It is just as bad. I visit an area with friends near the lake and the tenants were just as ignorant and mean. It lack of education especially humane education.

Exile them to a deserted island with as much smack as they want.

Puerto Rico is an island.

Puerto Rico surely doesn't need any more criminals. It's American. They've got that aplently.

Send them all to Canada. Vancouver clearly needs some street cred.

The State should hang them all.

They also exist in the UK

Yeah, I lived in the U.K. as well (though that is not my country of citizenship) and can tell you that council housing is not even close to being on the same level as these NYC crime centers.

who are you trying to kid? the ghetto is world wide, baby.

Yes, I know. I'm not trying to dispute that all countries have some who subscribe to the ghetto mentality. The point I am trying to make is that there is a really strong tendency in this city, and the whole country, to equate poverty with criminality. Never in my life have I seen so many people who seem to think that just because they're poor they must also be thuggish dirtbags. Yes, I know that plenty of poor people in NYC are decent and hardworking and are just trying to make a better life for the next generation, but this culture of institutionalized poverty and criminality is pretty extreme here. This probably has something to do with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA_Report_2009.png

All that being said, I can tell that you're a pretty intelligent person and I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know, but I just wanted to clarify.

wealth spread unevenly over certain demographics notwithstanding, i would say that ghetto cheerleaders a.k.a. "rappers" must claim their part in creating the mentality you speak of. that this miscreant ideology became absorbed into mainstream pop culture in the 1980s cemented this caricature of ghetto (thug) life not only in residents' minds, but in the rest of America too (and it is being parroted in Africa, India, Europe and beyond).

there seems to be nothing left but low expectations by everyone involved and we taxpayers fund it. many cities have begun demolishing residential public high-rises and starting over...

NYC housing projects = government-sponsored crime centers.

As a transplant (from another country), can someone please explain to me why these government-run crime scenes exist?

It's a conspiracy to keep black people and latinos unemployed, uneducated and criminal forever.