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[quote=Anonymous]Speaking as Black former resident of one of NYC’s worst neighborhoods, I don’t know why whoever thought of this program is pretending neighbors didn’t already step in to help and protect each other ESPECIALLY in impoverished areas where the police can’t be bothered. I don’t recall calling police a single time doing the 10 years I lived in my old hood. I relied on the local dboys (that’s drug dealers) to handle my ex and my former gym teacher to warn off kids who wanted to jump me.

BUUUUUT the reason police are needed is because the offenses that destroy lives aren’t as simple as teenagers chasing each other around to fist fight.

What’s going to happen when there’s a severe crime in progress or completed? For instance, armed robbery, rape, murder, arson, brutal domestic assault, severe child abuse. Is it remotely sensible to expect the neighborhood to self-police then?

And how do they account for the pressure that people who live in the neighborhood are going to feel NOT to report serious crimes that this initiative simply cannot handle? The publicity around this and eyes upon the neighborhood would make me feel as if I had to keep big things quiet in order to not make myself and neighbors look bad.

How do they differentiate between crime decreasing versus crime going unreported?[/quote]

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