Queensbridge: 365 days without a shooting

[superunknown23]

On Thursday, Queensbridge, NYC — the largest housing project in the United States, and a social caldron a generation ago — marked its 365th day without a shooting. No one can say with certainty what, precisely, has worked. There are soft approaches, like better cultural and arts opportunities at the local elementary school, and a robust menu of after-school offerings at the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement. There is the security apparatus: 15 light towers, 360 cameras and police officers assigned to Queensbridge. There was also the introduction one year ago this week of Cure Violence, which employs Mr. Bryant and others to cool confrontations that are apt to become lethal.

In 1992, Janet Cole, the president of the Queensbridge tenants association, said, “They shoot here two or three times a week.”

In 2003, the police reported that 2,325 people were stopped and searched. Last year, Inspector Capocci said, 11 people were, down from 15 in 2015. The last murder in Queensbridge was in May 2015.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/...gs-new-recipe-at-the-queensbridge-houses.html

Nas albums lost their relevancy there

 

[Sauce Dab]

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

That's wassup..

 

[3rdWorld]

 

[Vinsanity Williams]

As a patron from Chicago, I would love to see my city take steps like this to help rectify the violence here.

 

[Trajan]

Good shyt.

No more classic albums will be coming out of QB tho

 

[Birdie]

That's good, there was a neighborhood in The Bronx that also went almost a year without shootings a few years back and in Baltimore the Cherry Hill neighborhood went 700 days without a shooting. There's probably more examples but these are the ones that come to my head.

 

[superunknown23]

That's good, there was a neighborhood in The Bronx that also went almost a year without shootings a few years back and in Baltimore the Cherry Hill neighborhood went 700 days without a shooting. There's probably more examples but these are the ones that come to my head.

What's amazing here is we're talking about the largest housing project in the country.
Many other places have seen a decrease in shootings thanks to gentrification.

 

[shhh-kull & bones]

Nas albums lost their relevancy there

...these the type of cats that live over there now

Spoiler

 

[JahFocus CS]

 

[superunknown23]

...these the type of cats that live over there now

Spoiler

You see that shyt everywhere though.
Still better than stupid nikkas shooting over dumb shyt, like in Chicago

 

[Ghost Utmost]

This makes me happy

 

[Yehuda]

@BrothaZay

 

[BrothaZay]

Sad

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

Actually the whole nation has seen a drop in crime.

What Caused the Great Crime Decline in the U.S.?
What's Behind The Decline In Crime?


That's why I laugh when juliani starts talking about stop & frisk lowered crime ...I'm like "you instituted stop & frisk in Atlanta GA, Las Vegas NV, ...and Anchorage, Alaska?"
And here I thought the crack epidemic simply slowed down