Some towns in New Jersey are starting to see waves of attacks against day laborers, which police and community leaders believe may be attributed to gang initiation rituals or the arrival of warmer weather, reports El Diario-La Prensa.
Amsterdam News and Carib News cover rallies, panels and editorials berating gun and youth violence. More than superficial criticism, the words that echo through activists and leaders tell the public to root out the sources of violence.
The Brooklyn Bureau heads to Brownsville where residents don’t describe their worries as simply just “crime,” but rather, they’re concerned about the teenagers and seek ways to combat the problems from the ground up.
Three months after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the feeling throughout East New York, one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods, is still all too familiar. “We go through this every day,” said a life-long resident of the Brooklyn neighborhood.
City Limits stepped into Camaguey Restaurant in Mott Haven, where patrons voiced concerns more pressing to them than soda sizes and styrofoam – such as gun violence, education, and immigration.
Last week members of the National Action Network, an organization founded by Al Sharpton, began standing on street corners at night in New York City to prevent gun violence, which they’ll continue to do for the next three weeks. The Amsterdam News explained the initiative and sought out some opinions on its likelihood of success.
The shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida has brought on some public scrutiny of neighborhood watch groups across the country. The Brooklyn Ink tagged along recently with one such group patrolling the streets of the Echo Park neighborhood in the Bronx.
The ongoing controversy over the New York City Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” practices came to the fore again last week after Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly challenged critics of the practice to come up with their own approaches to reducing crime. Several community and ethnic outlets sought responses to Kelly’s questions.
The Weekly Thikana has reported extensively of late on dangers facing New York City’s Bangladeshi community, and especially to its young people.
Norwood News reports that police apprehended a suspect on Jan. 26 for the Oct. 29, 2011 murder of Bimal Chanda, who his family believes was targeted for his ethnicity. He was robbed and beaten to death in a stairwell of his apartment building on 190th Street. Police continue to lookRead More
Far from the aggressive images of the Central American Mara Salvatrucha – shaved heads, tattoos on their faces and bodies – the MS13 on Long Island goes about unnoticed. Only the “vacil” (3 dots) tattooed between a person’s fingers, or on the side of their left eye, can identify a member.
In an apparent policy shift, the District Attorney has stepped up prosecution of child sex abuse cases in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. About 85 people have been charged with sexual abuse, attempted kidnapping and sodomy over the past three years.
New York City not only takes a heavy toll on poor people in the city, but the impact can be felt in the Caribbean through deportations of criminal aliens by US.
In the past five years, hundreds of Korean immigrants have been arrested for engaging in the sex trade. Now South Korean lawmakers are calling on their government to take action.
Residents fear the street gangs, but police harassment doesn’t make anyone feel safer.
