Hmm...blog gets a cop investigated by internal affairs [via Diesel Nation]. What I find especially fucked up is that's the police station I grew up across the street from. I suppose it's ENY corruption month since while trying to google the old news of my ex-elementary school principal having been arrested for embezzlement back in the day, I stumbled on this winner. Google is interesting tool in general having also come across this old newsletter from a city council rep with an interesting neighborhood demographics breakdown. I've driven through my old neighborhood and noted the shiny new strip malls; taken the A/C and noticed white people getting off a little bit later every time; read the paper and noted that apartments in houses across the street from Cypress are going for $1300+. But, I also read/watch the news and feel like it's still the '80s/90s and East New York is the last frontier, reduced to soundbites like "one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in NYC." The kids and the people going about their lives are still dodging bullets and getting leftovers when they get anything at all. I'd like to say that by escaping when so many do not I've moved onto a bigger and better place, but being that I live in Jamaica, sited in there (almost moreso), not quite. I just feel depressed noting that for so many here in NYC, nothing really changes. Here's to me counting my moving pennies and lamenting the state of the world.
As an aside, I also stumbled across a great addendum to the other day's nuggets. I love Bad Samaritan and I never saw that one before. That tells me I need to go through the archives.
Posted by Candicissima at December 27, 2003 09:02 PM