Held at gunpoint?!

Subject: crime rate

Can anyone tell me how safe is the area around smith and butler.

jennitrixie wrote: the neighborhood is filled with at least perceived affluent people, who probably feel guard down in their 'hood, and who are often too filled with liberal guilt .

Nobody deserves to be robbed of course, but I can't stand these "liberal" clowns with their faux "guilt" and their condescending attitudes towards non-whites...

Anonymous wrote: [quote=jennitrixie]the neighborhood is filled with at least perceived affluent people, who probably feel guard down in their 'hood, and who are often too filled with liberal guilt .

Nobody deserves to be robbed of course, but I can't stand these "liberal" clowns with their faux "guilt" and their condescending attitudes towards non-whites...

Would a Park Slope populated by white supremacists with no sense of conscience be more to your liking?

8thandPrez wrote: [quote=prospect][quote=pitu]Watch the police blotter in those local free papers if you want to keep up with local crime incidents . . . the only area that has always stood out to me is 8th Ave and President/Union, usually people held up after going to one of the ATMs on Flatbush. The robber has an easy escape into the park.

AHHH !! I live on 8th ave between union and president !!

I've been there for a little over a year and all I've witness two car break in's.

I don't know about that post... I've lived on 8th Ave & President for 2 yrs and on Carroll btw 8th and PPW for the 2yrs before that and have never seen anything remotely dodgy. I really fail to understand how a mugger lurking on 8th Ave would successfully identify people coming from 7th Ave banks or why that particular block would be so ideal.... there's no direct park access until you get to Garfield. Regardless, it seems pretty unlikely.

I was refering to people getting followed from the two banks on Flatbush near 8th.
Or at least they used to get followed from there - it's an obvious post-Q train loop. I dunno - I stopped going to the Morgan/Chase ATM at Flatbush a few years ago after reading about muggings on that end of 8th Ave.
Maybe I was reading about jenntrixie . . .

I walk around there all the time and never *see* anything, but those damn police blotter reports are disturbing.

doctorj wrote: [quote=Anonymous][quote=jennitrixie]the neighborhood is filled with at least perceived affluent people, who probably feel guard down in their 'hood, and who are often too filled with liberal guilt .

Nobody deserves to be robbed of course, but I can't stand these "liberal" clowns with their faux "guilt" and their condescending attitudes towards non-whites...

Would a Park Slope populated by white supremacists with no sense of conscience be more to your liking?


Isn't that what it is becoming already, beneath the transparent veneer of fake PC-ness?