Lately, there has been plenty of war in my old neighborhood. The police is all over Jamaica Queens because of all the shooting crimes that occurred over the past two weeks. Most of these problems are all gang related and somehow it doesn’t seem like the authorities are really doing much about it. The most I see them doing is stand on each corner of all the neighborhoods with a bad reputation and the drug squad pulls over whom ever they feel is a threat to the community or is suspected to be drug trafficking.
What you will see the most on a regular daily basis are undercover detectives and cops. They come creeping through the “hood” in just about any car you can imagine and they roll deep. It will be about 3-7 people in a car and they are all Caucasian. Meanwhile everyone that lives in this neighborhood is African American or Hispanic. So it makes it really obvious that they are police. But these hard headed boys don’t seem to care. They continue to gang bang and carry on about their daily illegal activities as if the police aren’t even there and I really don’t know how these guys are still on the streets. Our corner stores have cameras and Con-Edison recently installed some cameras in the street lights to catch anyone drag racing or shooting near by. With all these spy equipment you would’ve thought that we lived in a estate with top notch security like the white house.
I don’t know when change is going to happen but these streets are definitely not safe for anyone to walk. The elderly barely come out of their houses. They go to church and then straight back home. When they want something from the store or the supermarket, they have them deliver or they send a young neighbor to run some errands for them. Its sad when you lived in a place for over 30 years and now you cant even face your streets. We need a miracle to happen because too many people have died and suffered from situations that had nothing to do with them. How can we protect the innocent?
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