Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2015 14:53:16 GMT -6
How would you like to live in a place so dangerous, its been considered a No-Go zone for police, due to high crime rates and officer safety issues? This isn't Paris. This is The Bronx, New York City, USA.
I guess this is your reward for trying to do something in cleaning up your own neighborhood. She didn't play a 'Charles Bronson', although she would have been in the right location when one thinks about it...eh? She just called the cops. Perhaps she was a bit over-eager in her persistence and failure to let it slide when cops didn't do anything effective ..but take a look and judge for yourself.
Ooo.. uncool. Aren't the cops always pushing for people to say something, if they see something? Aren't cops quick to blame citizens for their apathy in how bad areas get, while suggesting by implication, the cops 'just work here' and can't be blamed for anything? Hmmm.. yes..I do recall seeing that in the past. Too often, in fact.
After a later report brought about a search for an apartment above her, they arrested HER following no drugs being found. (Wonderful police work there...not). Then, as cops are very capable of doing when they want to be real nasty...they added insult to injury for a final slap to this old lady...
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They let her waste her money to retain an attorney, and they let her sweat it out as they almost certainly knew a law abiding person would, just to show up for court and discover they'd simply been screwing with her all along. It was a harassment move, IMO, to harrass her into shutting up.
* It also occurred to me...New York and other cities which followed their lead ..live and breathe on things like Crime-Stat maps that track statistical patterns and police/criminal activity. I'll JUST BET calls are a central part of those stats, and her calls may have tweaked their stats for that micro-segment of the borough. Did she tweak someone's political nose?
Oh..from the original source I stumbled across this, and VERY important in judging whether she's legit or a cranky old bat with nothing better to do than harass her neighbors, we have this as a final note.
This is editorial style, as the site itself is...so if its factually inaccurate, someone with better info please give a yell.
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I guess the moral of this story is....careful about calling a cop. They may just arrest YOU, and literally FOR calling them in the first place. It sounds like the NYPD has more than choke holds and street crime to reform within their ranks.
I guess this is your reward for trying to do something in cleaning up your own neighborhood. She didn't play a 'Charles Bronson', although she would have been in the right location when one thinks about it...eh? She just called the cops. Perhaps she was a bit over-eager in her persistence and failure to let it slide when cops didn't do anything effective ..but take a look and judge for yourself.
She saw something. She said something. And then she got arrested.
A 67-year-old woman who lives in Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx will file a federal lawsuit on Friday, slamming the NYPD for busting her for calling 311 too much. Arles Cepeda called the city hotline 44 times during a stretch of 15 months — and she phoned 911 twice.
Cepeda says she’s no crackpot. She’s just an active resident tired of having to walk by suspected drug dealers in her Seward Ave. building at all hours.
“I kept calling, but no one ever did anything,” Cepeda told the Daily News.
A 67-year-old woman who lives in Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx will file a federal lawsuit on Friday, slamming the NYPD for busting her for calling 311 too much. Arles Cepeda called the city hotline 44 times during a stretch of 15 months — and she phoned 911 twice.
Cepeda says she’s no crackpot. She’s just an active resident tired of having to walk by suspected drug dealers in her Seward Ave. building at all hours.
“I kept calling, but no one ever did anything,” Cepeda told the Daily News.
Ooo.. uncool. Aren't the cops always pushing for people to say something, if they see something? Aren't cops quick to blame citizens for their apathy in how bad areas get, while suggesting by implication, the cops 'just work here' and can't be blamed for anything? Hmmm.. yes..I do recall seeing that in the past. Too often, in fact.
After a later report brought about a search for an apartment above her, they arrested HER following no drugs being found. (Wonderful police work there...not). Then, as cops are very capable of doing when they want to be real nasty...they added insult to injury for a final slap to this old lady...
There was no docket number assigned to her case, Cohen said, making it likely police never forwarded any paperwork to the district attorney’s office. The DA’s office has no record of any charges.
They let her waste her money to retain an attorney, and they let her sweat it out as they almost certainly knew a law abiding person would, just to show up for court and discover they'd simply been screwing with her all along. It was a harassment move, IMO, to harrass her into shutting up.
* It also occurred to me...New York and other cities which followed their lead ..live and breathe on things like Crime-Stat maps that track statistical patterns and police/criminal activity. I'll JUST BET calls are a central part of those stats, and her calls may have tweaked their stats for that micro-segment of the borough. Did she tweak someone's political nose?
Oh..from the original source I stumbled across this, and VERY important in judging whether she's legit or a cranky old bat with nothing better to do than harass her neighbors, we have this as a final note.
This is editorial style, as the site itself is...so if its factually inaccurate, someone with better info please give a yell.
So was this “excessive calling” on her part? 44 calls in 15 months works out to about three times per month, or less than once a week. Given the neighborhood, that doesn’t seem like an unusual number of times to run into drug dealing or other gang related activity. A look at the history of Castle Hill Houses in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx shows an area which has seen some good news in recent years, with many renovations and community leaders taking a role in trying to clean up the area. But not that long ago, the police described this public housing unit as being in “a no-go zone due to high crime rates.” (Gee… where have we heard that phrase before?)
I guess the moral of this story is....careful about calling a cop. They may just arrest YOU, and literally FOR calling them in the first place. It sounds like the NYPD has more than choke holds and street crime to reform within their ranks.
