Murder in New York City

Four dead, including child, in suspected triple murder-suicide in New York City

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Police statistics show that as the crime wave moved north across the Bronx, the remaining white tenants in the South Bronx mostly elderly Jews were preferentially targeted for violent crime by the influx of young, minority criminals because they were seen as easy prey; this became so common that the street slang terms "crib job" meaning how elderly residents were as helpless as infants and "push in" meaning what would now be called a home invasion robbery were coined specifically in reference to them.

Local South Bronx residents themselves also burned down vacant properties in their own neighborhoods. Much of this was reportedly done by those who had already worked stripping and burning buildings for pay: Other fires were caused by unsafe electrical wiring, fires set indoors for heating, and random vandalism associated with the general crime situation.

Flawed HUD and city policies also encouraged local South Bronx residents to burn down their own buildings.

Under the regulations, Section 8 tenants who were burned out of their current housing were granted immediate priority status for another apartment, potentially in a better part of the city. After the establishment of the then state-of-the-art Co-op City , there was a spike in fires as tenants began burning down their Section 8 housing in an attempt to jump to the front of the 2- to 3-year-long waiting list for the new units. HUD employees were supposed to investigate these claims to verify they weren't fraudulent, but they did very little investigation. Some HUD employees and social services workers were accused of turning a blind eye to suspicious fires, or even advising tenants on how to take advantage of HUD policies.

According to reports, on multiple occasions, firefighters arrived at tenement fires only to find all the residents waiting calmly outside with all their possessions. By the time of Cosell's commentary, dozens of buildings were being burnt in the South Bronx every day, sometimes whole blocks at a time, and usually far more than the fire department could respond to.

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This left the area perpetually blanketed in a pall of smoke. Firefighters from the period reported responding to as many as seven fully involved structure fires in a single shift, too many to even bother returning to the station house between calls.

The local police precincts—already struggling and failing to contain the massive wave of drug and gang crime invading the Bronx—had long since stopped bothering to investigate the fires, as there were too many to track. During this period, the NYPD's 41st Precinct Station House at Simpson Street became famously known as " Fort Apache, The Bronx " as it struggled to deal with the overwhelming surge of violent crime, which for the entirety of the s and part of the early s made South Bronx the murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and arson capital of America.

The Bronx entered as urban decay's very portrait. Trailing the New York City financial crisis that in nearly closed the city's government—an insurance company bailed out the city once the White House refused to help—was New York City's blackout , which triggered massive looting that bankrupted stores. Charlotte Street at the time was a three-block devastated area of vacant lots and burned-out and abandoned buildings. The street had been so ravaged that part of it had been taken off official city maps in Carter instructed Patricia Roberts Harris , head of the U.

Department of Housing and Urban Development , to take steps to salvage the area. Neighborhoods surrounding Bedford—Stuyvesant such as Brownsville , Canarsie , and East New York were previously majority Italian and Jewish but have in the 20th century shifted into majority Black and Hispanic communities. Gang wars erupted in During the same year, Alfred E.

Social and racial divisions in the city contributed to the tensions, which climaxed when attempts at community control in the nearby Ocean Hill - Brownsville school district pitted some black community residents and activists from both inside and outside the area against teachers, the majority of whom were white , many of them Jewish. Charges of racism were a common part of social tensions at the time. Race relations between the NYPD and the city's black community were strained as police were seen as an instrument of oppression and racially biased law enforcement; further, at that time, few black policemen were present on the force.

Coincidentally, the riot took place throughout the NYPD's 28th and 32nd precinct, in Harlem, and the 79th precinct, in Bedford—Stuyvesant, which at one time were the only three police precincts in the NYPD where black police officers were allowed to patrol. In the late s, resistance to illegal drug-dealing included, according to Rita Webb Smith, following police arrests with a civilian Sunni Muslim day patrol of several blocks near a mosque, the same group having earlier evicted drug sellers at a landlord's request, though that also resulted in arrests of the Muslims for "burglary, menacing and possession of weapons", resulting in a probationary sentence.

New clothing stores, mid-century collector furniture stores, florists, bakeries, cafes, and restaurants opened, and Fresh Direct began delivering to the area. Despite the recent changes, violent crime remains a problem in the area. The two precincts that cover Bedford—Stuyvesant reported a combined 37 murders in Starting in the midth century, the United States became a magnet for immigrants seeking to escape poverty in their home countries.

After arriving in New York, many new arrivals ended up living in squalor in the slums of the Five Points neighborhood, an area between Broadway and the Bowery , northeast of New York City Hall. By the s, the area was home to many gambling dens and brothels , and was known as a dangerous place to go. In , Charles Dickens visited the area and was appalled at the horrendous living conditions he had seen. As Italian immigration grew in the early 20th century many joined ethnic gangs, including Al Capone , who got his start in crime with the Five Points Gang.

Lucky Luciano established Cosa Nostra in Manhattan, forming alliances with other criminal enterprises, including the Jewish mob , led by Meyer Lansky , the leading Jewish gangster of that period. Since , crime in Manhattan has plummeted in all categories tracked by the CompStat profile. Harlem , a large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan , was once known as one of the worst areas for poverty and crime in New York City and the United States.

As of [update] , the leading cause of death among black males in Harlem is homicide. The early days of Chinatown were dominated by Chinese " tongs " now sometimes rendered neutrally as " associations " , which were a mixture of clan associations, landsman's associations, political alliances Kuomintang Nationalists vs Communist Party of China , and more secretly, crime syndicates.

The associations started to give protection from harassment due to anti-Chinese sentiment.

Each of these associations was aligned with a street gang. The associations were a source of assistance to new immigrants — giving out loans , aiding in starting business, and so forth. Until the s, the eastern portion of Chinatown east of the Bowery , which is considered part of the Lower East Side was developing more slowly as being part of Chinatown, the proportion and concentration of Chinese residents was lower and more scattered than the western section, and there was still a higher proportion of Non-Chinese residents than Chinatown's western section consisting of Jewish, Puerto Ricans, a few Italians, and blacks.

In addition, there were fewer businesses and there were significant amount of vacant properties not occupied. Two males, who were 15 and 16 years old and were members of a Chinese street gang, were arrested and convicted. Similarly, crime in Chinatown increased due to the poor relations between Cantonese and Fuzhouese immigrants.

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The Fuzhou immigration pattern started out in the s very similarly like the Cantonese immigration during the late s to early s that had established Manhattan's Chinatown on Mott Street, Pell Street, and Doyers Street. Starting out as mostly men arriving first and then later on bringing their families over. The beginning influx of Fuzhou immigrants arriving during the s and s were entering into a Chinese community that was extremely Cantonese dominated.

Due to the Fuzhou immigrants having no legal status and inability to speak Cantonese, many were denied jobs in Chinatown as a result causing many of them to resort to crimes to make a living that began to dominate the crimes going on in Chinatown. There was a lot of Cantonese resentment against Fuzhou immigrants arriving into Chinatown. During the mid-to-late 80s, Chinatown began to experience an influx of Vietnamese refugees from the Vietnam War , the majority of them being boat people.

Due to language barriers, since the Vietnamese refugees could not speak Mandarin or Cantonese which was solely used for most social services including banks, they struggled to survive and lived on the fringes of the community. Eventually, many of the Vietnamese youths within the city started to band together, forming several various gang factions within the city. Under the leadership of a wealthy enterprising Vietnamese immigrant David Thai , who coalesced many separate gangs into one that became known as Born to Kill , Vietnamese youths began a violent crime spree in Chinatown, robbing, extorting, and racketeering—drawing much resentment from the Chinese community.

The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signalling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime.

CompStat [] is the name given to the New York City Police Department 's accountability process and has since been replicated in many other departments. CompStat is a management philosophy or organizational management tool for police departments, roughly equivalent to Six Sigma or TQM , and was not a computer system or software package in its original form.

Through an evolutionary process, however, some commercial entities have created turnkey packages including computer systems, software, mobile devices, and other implements collectively assembled under the heading of CompStat. Instead, CompStat is a multilayered dynamic approach to crime reduction, quality of life improvement, and personnel and resource management. CompStat employs Geographic Information Systems and was intended to map crime and identify problems.

In weekly meetings, ranking NYPD executives meet with local precinct commanders from one of the eight patrol boroughs in New York City to discuss the problems. They devise strategies and tactics to solve problems, reduce crime, and ultimately improve quality of life in their assigned area. Muslims were spied on in mosques, restaurants, streets, public places and Muslim groups, and websites were scrutinized. It resulted in much confusion and anger from Muslim communities in the United States , as well as support from New York City mayor Bloomberg.

The FBI criticized the spying as unhealthy. It was also revealed that the surveillance program failed to generate even a single lead. Law enforcement in New York City is carried out by numerous law enforcement agencies. New York City has the highest concentration of law enforcement agencies in the United States. As with the rest of the US, agencies operate at federal and state levels. However, New York City's unique nature means many more operate at lower levels. Many private police forces also operate in New York City.

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