Tuesday, June 23, 2020

New York City's New Bad Days are here as more shootings and illegal fireworks are reported


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Impunity City

 During the last two months of the lockdown of the five boroughs and with a sizeable amount of cops stricken by COVID-19, home and commercial property burglaries and vehicle theft shot up in massive numbers in May as murders and robberies show higher incremental ticks. Crime in the subway made significant gains even though service is cut and commuting went down nearly 90%.  

Shootings went up by a lot (especially in Brooklyn) which shouldn’t be surprising considering you can be more than six feet to hit your target. Drag racing also went up in the last 3 months as the city was mostly barren from mass isolation.
 
As May began Governor Cuomo gave the order to kick the homeless off the trains including banning every other commuter from the subway at 1 am until the clock struck 5 so the trains can get thoroughly cleaned..Which had no effect with the homeless who prefer to sleep during the morning and noon hours as the lower paid contractors deftly cleaned around them. 

 And that's only a sample of NYC's Spring of chaos and disorder...

NY Post

 Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter-century, according to the NYPD — and police sources warned that the recent rate of gunplay may be the new normal.
Through the first three weeks of June, which came to a close Sunday, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post on Monday.
“We have to go back to June of 1996 to get a worse start for June,” said LiPetri. “That is a telling stat.”
Twenty-four years ago, Rudy Giuliani was mayor and, while the city had made strides in tamping down crime, Gotham still saw 2,938 people shot and 984 killed.
Although overall crime citywide remains down 2.5 percent for the year, shootings, already trending up this year, exploded in June.
From Monday, June 15, through Sunday, there were 53 shooting incidents across the city, the highest mark for a single week since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.
The last time the city recorded that many shootings in a week was around July 4, 2012, according to police sources.
But to find a nonholiday week — which tends to be quieter — with that many shootings, the department had to look all the way back to 2005, according to LiPetri.
“This weekend we also saw real challenges out in our streets in terms of gun violence,” said de Blasio in a press briefing, remarking on the blood-soaked stretch that included 24 people shot citywide Saturday.
“We are not going to allow gun violence to continue to grow in this city,” vowed Hizzoner.


Gothamist

 As thundering firework displays continue to shoot through New York City's skies, they're trailed by a boom in complaints about the illegal use of pyrotechnics. From Washington Heights to Ditmas Park, weary residents say they've been pushed to the brink by screeching explosions that begin before sundown and last well into the morning.

According to city data, 849 complaints about fireworks were logged with the city's 311 hotline in the last two weeks alone. That's a nearly 4,000 percent increase from the same period in 2019, which saw just 21 recorded complaints. In the first two weeks of June during the previous five years, there were less than 50 complaints related to fireworks in total.

As with other 311 data, it's not clear that the figures reflect an actual spike in activity. In many cases, the growth of nuisance calls is a better barometer of gentrification than any specific change in behavior. But while illicit fireworks have long served as the sonic backdrop to summer nights in NYC, some residents say the intensity and frequency has been noticeably greater in 2020, with many of the late-night displays appearing strangely professional.

"There’s something louder, longer, and crazier about it that’s weird," said Phoebe Streblow, a Flatbush resident. "Just the sheer cost alone of these productions is suspect. They're about the size of fireworks at a minor league ballpark."



65 comments:

Anonymous said...

What did you think was going to happen ?
George Soros “The destruction of America will be the crowning achievement of my life’s work “

Joe said...

I was able to by more many different fireworks this year then back in the Ed Koch days. I think this July 4th is going to be a blast, love the smell of gunpowder.
This year we are seeing the return of 500 shot cakes, belts, rockets, 3, 4, 6 inch mortar festival balls, parachutes, tanks, snakes, tanks, smokebombs, silverjets, 8 or so variations of firecrackers. All stuff I haven't seen since the 1970s.
The Chinese fireworks, all the good old ones
The neighbors and I spent around $500 each this year and another $500 on beer, booze and food
July 4th falls on a Saturday !!!

Anonymous said...

How many children will lose a hand or eye!,saw a 14 year old blow his hand clean off,saddest thing I ever saw.
N.Y. post July 5 edition back in the day made the center fold all July 4 injuries,anyone remember the 70s

Anonymous said...

Same shit different day

Anonymous said...

Trump’s trade agreement with China is going very well. Just as planned.

ron s said...

Re Anon #1. Funny thing, I went outside to see who was making all that racket, and wouldn't you know, George Soros was running away! Damn him and his firecrackers!

Anonymous said...

"How many children will lose a hand or eye!"
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What a bunch of crap'ola!
How about watch your kids instead of blaming other people!
--- firecrackers, bicycles, drugs, scissors, matches, knives, vicious dogs and every dam thing else they can hurt or kill themselves with.

Firecrackers do not take off fingers, block busters and M80s do and those aren't around this year. Its firecrackers and mostly all aerial stuff.
Stop complaining and watch your children, and who (and what) they hang out with.

Anonymous said...

to - "Stop complaining and watch your children, and who (and what) they hang out with."

Stop acting like animals and take your fireworks in your own house.

Joe said...

The problem is bad parents who don't raise or watch their kid right.
Kids cant afford fireworks this year, here are some prices of common items (the complete list this year is 2 pages long)

Parachute pack $5
Whistling bottle rockets $15 a gross
Sky Patriots 500 gram missiles $50
Jail Break 500 gram $55
25 shot Saturn missile cake-each $2.50, 300 shot $30, 750 shot "pizza tray" $100
Mat of firecrackers $20
16,000 firecrackers $100
Times Square assortment box $100
Fountains 500 gram $50
Large cakes $100 each
Mortar Shell assortmant 3-4-6 inch $550
Gold Dust 36 shot $400
Specialty cakes $100 and up

Forget it, 14 year olds cant afford the stuff that can badly harm them and they shouldn't be out un-supervised anyway.
BAD PARENTS WATCH YOUR KIDs!!
The doped up mayor has as much a chance at demanding the cops stop this as a fart in a hurricane.
Does deBlasio really think the cops after being treated like such shit are will bust people for fireworks, LOL !! :) :) :) :)
The cops and their family's on my block have the best fireworks !!!

georgetheatheist said...

Ooo-aaa. Big deal. Fireworks go off. Then you go home. Don't be a pyro-gaping asshole. ("Me shoot da rocket") Money down the toilet if you ask me. Why not just burn your greenbacks?

Anonymous said...

Ok joe,your one smart guy,never even thought about supervising my kids
You see I'm a retired firefighter who worked every 4 of July so older guys could enjoy the holiday with THIER family's but your friends are cops,so it looks like you think like a cop so your credibility is zero.
I'll say it again,try consoling a kid who lost a limb,the packing what's left of it on ice been there,done that,shame on those parents
Did you also say you'll be drinking and lighting of fireworks ?
Lol

Anonymous said...

For your information,you say to much.

Anonymous said...

Crappy,

I hope you're charging "Joe" for advertising space.

JQ LLC said...

Last Anon re: Joe

Why bother. New York's Impunity City now.

Joe said...

"Did you also say you'll be drinking and lighting of fireworks"

No, didn't say that.
Hell your not a fireman your media, editing and changing my words
I said spent $500 on fireworks and $500 on booze & BBQ and made no reference to who would be lighting them off.
Hey, Remember what July 4th means because it may be the last July 4th you can celebrate once all the socialists get into the Whitehouse and Congress office come November. You sound like a communist!!

Speaking of drinking and lighting of fireworks, take a walk through Whitestone and see how many Irish firemen (hell those guys start drinking at noon) are lighting them off.
Remember July 4th is on a Saturday this year, add millions of people been cooped up the past 3 months will be drinking, staying up late. "shaken seltzer in a bottle" "a smoldering powder keg" Hey, call it whatever you want, spin my words (I don't give a F%#$) it still doesn't change the above are facts.
If you that old, cranky, retired maybe New York City is not a good place for you. Millions of Americans have had our 4th BBQ, Booze and Firework's all our lives,
I don't need no stinkin communist militant or media schmuck telling me its wrong, erasing tradition or history.
If you don't like July 4th go to Toronto for the weekend with the Gulf war PTSD people.

-Joe


Anonymous said...

""If you don't like July 4th go to Toronto for the weekend with the Gulf war PTSD people"

Wow what a patriotic way to be referring to Gulf War Veterans...

georgetheatheist said...

Joe. Me too - I just love that smell of gunpowder. I wish Estee Lauder could put it in a bottle. I'd shpritz it on as cologne or even armpit deodorant.

Anonymous said...

Y’all pyrocists

Anonymous said...

Brought to you by the communist party, formerly known as the democrats.

Anonymous said...

I love fireworks. I remember the days when my dad used to bring home a huge garbage bag full from Chinatown. However, those days people were actually half way decent. The days we live in now, I'm not surprised that they are using it more as a weapon than for just fun and entertainment.

Anonymous said...

This once great city is going the way of Sam Palo Brazil, its finished!!
The calls on the scanner radio are unbelievable, not one minute of squelch silence without a stabbings, muggings, jacking, robbery, overdosing, domestic violence.
I say live it up, have fun wile you can
Wait till the democrats get POTUS grab all the premises guns and the bad guys know longer have to worry about who has them and who doesn't.

Very disturbing article on Drudge report on more brat democrat socialist for life coming into the voting base.
Out young people are going to destroy capitalism and the country
https://www.fastcompany.com/90521390/for-the-first-time-the-majority-of-people-under-16-in-america-are-nonwhite-and-hispanic

Anonymous said...

Joe wrote:Times Square assortment box $100


Bought 6 boxes of the Times Square assortment pack today for $400 behind Main Street flushing.
The guy had a garage stocked to the ceiling, amazing how all this stuff got into the city and that's what makes New York great.
You can get or do what you want any day, anytime and nobody gives a shit.
Some of these fireworks even have New York names like Brooklyn stars.

Anonymous said...

You can get or do what you want any day, anytime and nobody gives a shit.

Nobody gives a shit? How about all the mothers of babies whose sleep is broken by the constant booms? What about military veterans with PTSD? How about peoples' pets? I read yesterday that someone's beloved horse broke loose and ran in terror, breaking a leg and had to be put down, and someone's dog bolted from the house, terrified, and ran into the street to be run over and killed.

You sound like a totally selfish piece of juvenile garbage. Regard for other people has probably never burdened what passes for a mind in you. You're an excellent reason to move out of NYC. You can stay there and keep company with the shooters, muggers, robbers and other asses.

Anonymous said...

Sure fireworks are lovely. But at 11pm till 230am? One night it was like that. Then it starts at 4pm. Big Bang. Then heats up at 9pm. Then restarts at 2am till 3am. Oh mix it in with the drag racing. The parties that go into 3am. The group singing the same song over and over. Burning the fire pits that my house smells like the California wild fires.

Anonymous said...

Democrat party 2020 formula empty the streets with virus hoax, then empty streets and buildings results in looting and arson, police reaction to urban mayhem is racist, women voters overwhelmingly think let the Democrats win so we can go back to the drug addicted former status quo, MSM celebrates Democrat 2020 formula

Anonymous said...

"But at 11pm till 230am? One night it was like that. Then it starts at 4pm. Big Bang. Then heats up at 9pm. Then restarts at 2am till 3am"

That's usually the sellers burning getting rid of the unsold. They let the smoke clear and go back to the stash spot and get them. (you cant leave a big stash out at once in case the cops come) You cant save fireworks in New York the summer humidity kills them.
As far as the "How about all the mothers of babies whose sleep is broken by the constant booms, military veterans with PTSD? How about peoples' pets?"
Well 1: The veterans with PTSD make special arrangement's to go to Canada, get prescribed super doses of Valium or whatever.
My uncle was in the Vietnam war and says if you had mental problems or were an asshole when you went in you came out the same way. He also loves his BBQ, Beer & fireworks
Pets, that's the owners problem for selecting nervous animals as pets in a big city. Its doesn't bother my cats & 2 Ferrets at all, Squirrels aren't affected? Many dogs are defective by nature that's the problem. Hell they cant be trained to use a litter box.
How about we ban, dogs, summer thunderstorms, cars, fire engines, surround sound TVs, home theater?
That's the price when you choose to live in the city where the party's go to sunrise, I remember back in the 60s fireworks went till dawn I don't understand why is such a big problem now.
These sucky new people need to go back to the country.

Anonymous said...

"horse broke loose and ran in terror, breaking a leg and had to be put down, and someone's dog bolted from the house, terrified, and ran into the street to be run over and killed"

How the hell does a dog just bolt from a house?
100% the owners fault for not securing the animals and placing them danger !!
What if the spooked dog was a pit bull ran out and killed somebody?
And a automobile accident involving a horse, moose, bison can be lethal for those in the car.
Secure the animals!
Jeeze some of you people are worse then the Pyrofiles

Anonymous said...

Most service members suffering from PTSD make arrangements for July 4th. They are totally prepared and account for very small fraction of a percent general population.
They usually get special accommodation's on Uncle Sam.

Pets, farm animals running into traffic are the owners fault.
I'm also calling BS on the horse story, as long as records have been kept we have had Vikings, American Indians, Civil war, American revolution, Chinese Huns firing guns on horses without issues.
Bad negligent owners with untrained, unleashed animals on the loose are at fault with that.

Anonymous said...

Have PTSD, but I love fireworks. Somebody needs to learn to think.

Anonymous said...

You ever try being up all night trying to calm a pet during a thunderstorm or fireworks? Night after night?

Anonymous said...

Karen said...
Be Glad I don't live next to Joe or all the other pro Fireworks jerks.
I would have to address the problem and end your drunken party at 10:00 PM with a single call to 311.

Anonymous said...

@ron s said...
Shut your piehole, you hood-winked britch soiler !

Anonymous said...

How does it get here ? Lol on the back of heroin trucks loaded with sex slaves,everyone knows that!
Just ask any Cop in the 109.

Anonymous said...

up all night trying to calm a pet during a thunderstorm or fireworks?
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If the dog can not adjust after an hour something's wrong with it.
Overbred, inbred and Puppy mill dogs from stores have this problem and no amount of training or calming will fix the behavior.
See a Vet, it needs medication.
My mother bought a Sheltie from a store, she thought it was cute. Her Little Lassie" It's papers showed some mill in the Midwest. Mom went through $1000s in trainers and 100s of hours of work herself, neutering, And still No good. That dam dog would still "go off like a bomb" barking into a frenzy and bite anybody, anything at any noise, that fat SOB always wanted to eat and would bite you bringing it a bowl of food and worse if you put it on a diet. It had to be put down and good riddance to that nasty devil .

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of crap'ola!
How about watch your kids instead of blaming other people!
--- firecrackers, bicycles, drugs, scissors, matches, knives, vicious dogs and every dam thing else they can hurt or kill themselves with.

Firecrackers do not take off fingers, block busters and M80s do and those aren't around this year. Its firecrackers and mostly all aerial stuff.
Stop complaining and watch your children, and who (and what) they hang out with.
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What are you? A damn grown man or a teen punk? You talk like one. People are shooting fireworks at one another. A homeless man was injured and the idiots who threw fireworks at him recorded it. A girl had her arm burned as fireworks went into her window and hit her.

Leave the fireworks to the experts. A grown man shouldn’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars of fireworks.

Anonymous said...

I don't need no stinkin communist militant or media schmuck telling me its wrong, erasing tradition or history.
If you don't like July 4th go to Toronto for the weekend with the Gulf war PTSD people.

-Joe
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Ironic that Gulf War vets served this country so you can act like a little boy. Amazing. Congrats on being the nominated by me as the most retarded poster on this blog. You truly are a clown who can barely but a cogent sentence together.

Anonymous said...

What did you think was going to happen ?
George Soros “The destruction of America will be the crowning achievement of my life’s work “

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So he’s the bogeyman? What happened during the Nixon administration? Very similar right? Where do you clowns come from? You need Jesus in your life. George Soros is the bogeyman but not Trump and his crony’s? Extreme leftists? Koch brothers?

Anonymous said...

Have PTSD, but I love fireworks. Somebody needs to learn to think.

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How did you get diagnosed from PTSD? Curious some vets don’t do well but others do.

Anonymous said...

You New Yorker's have so many problems that you make for yourselves. Too bad that so much of the country is following your lead. NYC, just another Seattle, Los Angeles or Minneapolis.

Anonymous said...

I think it’s the misguided people with money and no God who think they have the right to disturb others peace. Loud Cars/Motocycles and Fireworks suck grow up little boys.

Anonymous said...

Ok between fireworks and these loud ass car exhausts every 2 minutes in nyc I’m about to slap a bitch !

Anonymous said...

Why since the beginning of June these inhumane scum using fireworks every night for hours and hours? They are despicable .

Anonymous said...

QC Reader said...
We now officially have a dysfunctional government and dysfunctional society. Jeez

Anonymous said...

Poor De Blabbio. Torn between his doing his job responsibly as Mayor and bowing to The Mob. What a wishy washy fool allowing Fire Works to make a come back.

Anonymous said...

"How did you get diagnosed from PTSD? Curious some vets don’t do well but others do."

Came up while going through my disability hearings.
Most of mine is rooted in having gone through enhanced interrogation (waterboarding, beatings, etc) Found it humorous that that there was so much whining about it going on in Gitmo. We do it to our own troops as part of training (SERE).


Anonymous said...

"A girl had her arm burned as fireworks went into her window and hit her"
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What is a kid doing by an open window with no screen?
Again, lousy stupid parents, no supervision put her in danger or she was up to no good.

Q:What if she fell out that window shooting bottle rockets (or water balloons) at people and got killed?
A:Bad neglectful parents and stupidity would be the cause!

I kinda like this "new" New York, all these transplants & Yahoos are bailing like cockroaches when you turn the lights on. Rents are getting cheaper, you can now walk in the street with a beer, glass of wine, shoots roman candles & rockets John Gotti's great old block party's again.
I have to get out the old Bingo roll basket, wooden balls, Sambuca, tables, music and ghetto blaster out, this is going to be some summer !!

Anonymous said...

Quite: Mayor and bowing to The Mob.

Emm-Bad word:
Organized businessmen control fireworks just like Jukeboxes and vending machines in bars. It territorial between the Chinese, Italians and Albanians.
The Mayor nor cops will mess with them, hell no--especially the Albanians. They'll find out under the freedom of disclosure and go after you and your whole family whole building if you mess with them.

Joe said...

""Leave the fireworks to the experts"

LOL I have Pyro certification from when I quit NBC and got on a tours with both White Zombie and KISS. What's this "A grown man shouldn’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars of fireworks"?
What kind of nanny communist self righteous crap statement is that?
I will spend my hard earned extra spare money on what I want, not what you want.
America tossed England, Parliament, Aristocracy and King George III the f^ck outta hear over 250 years ago !

July 4th is public and private events celebrating the history of government, rights of self-government, the freedoms and traditions of the United States.
Many shots and many died in the American Revolution, fireworks is a salute to civil revolution and the brave not crybaby's and communists. (the shitty mayor and people complaining sure seem to confirm the latter)

-Joe

Anonymous said...

Say it ain't so Joe, please say it ain't so
That's not what I want to hear Joe
Ain't I got a right to know
Say it ain't so Joe, please say it ain't so
I'm sure they're telling us lies Joe
Please tell us it ain't so...

Anonymous said...

Joe give it up you are wrong !

Anonymous said...

@jOe said... "Tours with both White Zombie and KISS" & "NBC" Wow ! That makes you right ?
Have you had a hearing test ? I don't want to hear your Fireworks day after day and I want my home protected from Fire and Idiots like you.

The Tory said...

Rule Britannia! Bring back King George. We'd have a more civilized country. Hang Washington and those other Philadelphia rebellious vermin.

Anonymous said...

Joe is right.

My best friend was a decorated USN EOD diver who did 2 tours in combat (on shore).
He can't buy as much as a sparkler.
Typical of one size fits all thinking of the left.

Anonymous said...

July 4th is public and private events celebrating the history of government, rights of self-government, the freedoms and traditions of the United States.
Many shots and many died in the American Revolution, fireworks is a salute to civil revolution and the brave not crybaby's and communists. (the shitty mayor and people complaining sure seem to confirm the latter)

-Joe
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. As people have said Memorial Day isn’t about bbq etc but to commemorate those who served and made the greatest sacrifice. You’re a dolt and a clown.

Anonymous said...

***Glad I don't live next to Joe***

Understatement, You mean east coast Logan Paul

ron s said...

Re "piehole" and "britches" commenter above. I forgot to mention that Hilary was lighting up some M-80's and James Comey put an ashcan in my drainpipe! Oh, THOSE DEMOCRATS!!!!!

Joe said...

"Have you had a hearing test ?"
Yes, 30% loss left ear thanks to John Entwistle.
Between that and the Chinese virus I have decided to retire. I only play private parts with some local guys. Playing in a yard Saturday with some cops that also tossed their badges and retired. Now its a TRIPLE party !!
Zoe is making Braciole, also ordered the Neapolitan Rainbow Cookies, Struffoli Honey Balls, Amaretti, Cannoli's from Circos
No worries precautions have been taken so everybody is safe.

Invited the neighbors, anybody else wishing to go to bed 10PM on a Saturday night, biggest national holiday of the year is free to call 311 all they want and good luck with that. --
Buy the cheap green foam earplugs, they are comfortable and work. Follow the directions to insert them properly by pulling the ear back and then inserting.
Remember:
All the cops are furious at the deblasio administration and the media.

-Joe

Anonymous said...

Joe,
Were you arrested for arson for shooting fireworks into someone’s home which burned down recently? It was in the local news.

Anonymous said...

Wild guess...not kids as in under 18 shooting off the works in my neighborhood, it's grown men. Wild guess 2...these men when asked would say "support the police" "support the veterans" "child abuse is wrong" "animal abuse is wrong" Wild guess 3 ...these same men will say they support "law and order"
Fact...these men are criminals engaging in criminal activity making police run ragged on the 4th of July, endangering themselves and their neighbors, unnecessarily causing distress for some veterans, infants, and animals.

Anonymous said...

Joe Mo said...
NYC Is Dying, Crime Skyrockets, People Fleeing, Far left Takes Over Streets !
Leftists are the arse end of society. NYC and the arse end of society deserve each other.
These Marxist fools are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. We can only hope the free states boom and reap huge windfalls and profits from this. The only problem is the Leftist worms that leave the Dem hellholes will bring their mental illness with them. Just like Californians turned Portland and Seattle into Hell Holes !

Anonymous said...

Most kids under 18 cant afford fireworks this year.
Dam Roman candles that usually cost $2 are $10 each
Fireworks are super expensive this year and consist of mostly of rockets and aerial color stuff.
Keep you windows closed or have metal screen's !!

Anonymous said...

Portland and Seattle were shit holes BEFORE California ever set foot there

Anonymous said...

Portland and Seattle were perhaps America's two most beautiful cities. Low crime, no garbage, civic pride, etc.

Leftism destroys everything.

Anonymous said...

***Glad I don't live next to Joe***

You F_ wish you could, he has $$ and helps everybody with everything.
Just set the whole street on fire with displays then supplied a gang with a generator, lights and backpack blower to clean it all up.
We love Joe and Miss Zoe, Not fulla shit BTW the old crappy can verify them.

Anonymous said...

Fireworks were bought with the stimulus money the government gave out. So were the guns.