Park Slope Drama (or How a Neighborhood in Brooklyn Became a Sundown Town)

[AthenaAwakened]

PARK SLOPE — NYPD officers in patrol cars trailed a group of black teens walking through Park Slope and told them over their loudspeakers to "get out of the neighborhood," a resident who witnessed the incident said.

The incident happened Sept. 22 about 2:45 p.m. on Ninth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, witness Sara Bennett said at a 78th Precinct Community Council meeting Tuesday night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/black-teens-park-slope-brooklyn-police-_n_5914440.html

So I was catching up on podcasts to which I had not listened and came across this little ditty.

So now the public streets aren't public anymore and walking on them in broad daylight bothering no one is somehow criminal?

 

[bilby]

PARK SLOPE — NYPD officers in patrol cars trailed a group of black teens walking through Park Slope and told them over their loudspeakers to "get out of the neighborhood," a resident who witnessed the incident said.

The incident happened Sept. 22 about 2:45 p.m. on Ninth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues, witness Sara Bennett said at a 78th Precinct Community Council meeting Tuesday night.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/black-teens-park-slope-brooklyn-police-_n_5914440.html

So I was catching up on podcasts to which I had not listened and came across this little ditty.

So now the public streets aren't public anymore and walking on them in broad daylight bothering no one is somehow criminal?

So I notice that the Brooklyn Police have a 'CPR' acrostic of their mission statement printed on their cars, and I am wondering, is yelling at people who have committed no offence to 'get out of the neighbourhood' part of the Courtesy, Professionalism, or Respect areas of that mission statement?

 

[AthenaAwakened]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/black-teens-park-slope-brooklyn-police-_n_5914440.html

So I was catching up on podcasts to which I had not listened and came across this little ditty.

So now the public streets aren't public anymore and walking on them in broad daylight bothering no one is somehow criminal?

So I notice that the Brooklyn Police have a 'CPR' acrostic of their mission statement printed on their cars, and I am wondering, is yelling at people who have committed no offence to 'get out of the neighbourhood' part of the Courtesy, Professionalism, or Respect areas of that mission statement?

Well, it is Park Slope