Sunday, February 20, 2011
104th Pct had most graffiti arrests in city
From the Daily News:
Tag, Ridgewood and Glendale, you're it: the top neighborhoods for graffiti complaints in the city.
Although spray paint complaints were down overall in the five boroughs last year, police in the 104th Precinct, which also covers Middle Village, received 800 graffiti gripes - up 305% from the 262 of 2009.
Citywide, there were 9,850 graffiti complaints last year - an overall decline of 3% from the 10,162 of 2009.
But the drop couldn't erase the aerosol explosions in Queens North (up 21%) and Manhattan South (up 42%).
In Ridgewood Wednesday, store owner Barry Azizian recounted how his business was recently tagged with an "RIP" message by local kids.
"I complained, and they got the kids," he said, describing one of his tormentors as "a lowlife."
"He shouldn't be doing this," said Azizian, 49, owner of Myrtle Discount Auto Parts. "He lives in the neighborhood. We pay taxes. We want to have a nice life here."
A crackdown in the 104th Precinct produced 102 graffiti-related arrests in the first four weeks of this year. There were 174 busts all of last year.
22 comments:
Looks like the New York Daily News has discovered Queens in much the way the New York Times discovered Brooklyn last year.
They seem to have forgotten that Maspeth is in the precinct and the headline writer also skipped Middle Village.
Hey! It's art!
I really wish the local media would STOP discovering Queens!
Who sent that info to the Daily News?
Most those arrests are from the Fresh Pond M train yards and Conrail layups.
Its been a hot spot for "taggers" as far as I can remember. The cops simply do raids.
The only way out is the tracks, soccer field or the cemetery. All wide open spaces---easy picking's and crime-stat numbers for the 104 retirement home cops
The cops simply do raids.
The only way out is the tracks, soccer field or the cemetery. All wide open spaces---easy picking's and crime-stat numbers for the 104 retirement home cops.
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Hey it works, they catch taggers there because that is where the taggers are. You don't go fishing on a basaball field.
All wide open spaces---easy picking's and crime-stat numbers for the 104 retirement home cops.
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Have you SEEN the 104 cops lately? Not exactly a retirement home anymore, if there ever WAS such a designation. Unless 20 something year olds are now considered old timers.
I didn't think you could make an arrest without getting out of your patrol car!
lowlife Polish and Albanian wiggers move in, area goes to shit. surprised??
Have you SEEN the 104 cops lately? Not exactly a retirement home anymore, if there ever WAS such a designation. Unless 20 something year olds are now considered old timers.
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Well, you get one of two types at 104. Retirees racking up triple-OT to pad their pension numbers, and rookies right of of the academy... from the bottom of the class. The good cadets get better assignments.
"lowlife Polish and Albanian wiggers move in, area goes to shit. surprised??"
Is that why almost every perp arrested for graffiti has an Hispanic last name?
Send them to Woodside around 52st & Roosevelt - every roof and top half of building is tagged. Go on the 7 train for a better perspective.
Well, you get one of two types at 104. Retirees racking up triple-OT to pad their pension numbers, and rookies right of of the academy... from the bottom of the class. The good cadets get better assignments.
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Ask any cop on patrol, there is very little, if any, overtime in the precincts nowdays. All the so-called old timers go to special details outside the precincts to rack up the pensionable OT, and even THAT well is drying up. Every active cop know that if they are looking for overtime on patrol, they are better off in a busy house, making arrest overtime, than going to the 104. Trust me, no cop in his right mind would pick the 104 as the ideal place to pad their pension.
And what the hell is a cadet? They are called recruits, or probationary police officers (PPO) in the Academy. Once they graduate, they are calld police officers (PO).
I have lived in the 104 my entire life and I have no problem with the way the precinct is handling graffiti arrests. They are up because there is a focus on the problem, and that is a good thing. What irks me most are home and business owners who leave their scrawled walls on display for months until they are forced to clean them. I miss the days when business owners lived in the community and not out on Long Island.
Here is some info about recent graffiti arrests in the 104. COMET gave awards to the cops responsible for the arrests at their last meeting.
Why the deleted comment(s) Crappy? Was the truth too much for you?
Calling people who live in a certain area names is not truth, it's just stupid. And it's what we've come to expect from certain members of the NYPD who run home to Long Island and talk trash about those back in the city they chose to serve and protect. Don't like the job? Quit. We don't need your kind on the force.
The NYPD commenter sounds like someone I know from the 108 pct...he has a real hard on for finding out who Crappy is. As if that matters.
So sad that they got rid of the rule that said NYPD had to live in the city. Now they have a job looking after areas they dont care about.
Real great system.
The NYPD will give more of a shit about their jobs when they get the respect of those they've chosen to serve, and enough pay to support a family in NYC. Until I see you working as a cop, stuff it, Crappy.
You don't just get respect. You earn it. Making up stats, filing bogus charges against people and talking shit about residents is not the way to do it.
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