Banging the Drum Against Murder
Confronting indifference to violence and mobs that maraud without cause
By Bette Dewing
“Rampaging mobs had broken into every shop there, stealing everything from designer clothing to electronics. One store stood alone, however, its window intact and its goods untouched. It was a bookstore, wherein perhaps the best hope for a better future lay ignored.”
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Unending Good Must Come from Senseless Evil
By Bette Dewing
“If it wasn’t for surveillance cameras, Levi Aron would be free to kill again. These cameras have been instrumental in capturing previous killers, rapists, muggers, bank-robbers and the like. We need more cameras particularly in crime-ridden neighborhoods.”
Just the Facts Ma’am
Don’t criminals learn anything from cop shows?
We should call them New York’s “Findest.”
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UPPER EAST SIDE GROPER
By Ashley Welch
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in finding a man who has been groping women on the Upper East Side. He is described as 4-foot 11-inches and 120 pounds with black hair. Police released the sketch of him below.
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Elder Abuse Is All-Too-Common Crime
By Jessica Lappin and Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.
At the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Harlem, elderly residents—away from their families and loved ones—look to nursing aides for care and support. Although Jose Ramos was entrusted with protecting the nursing home’s elders, he instead preyed on a helpless victim and violated her in unthinkable ways. Last month, Ramos, a certified nursing assistant at the Manhattan facility, was sentenced to seven years in state prison for sexually abusing a disabled and speech-impaired resident.
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Neighborhood Shaken After Attack on Elderly Woman
Upper East Side residents were shocked by a violent sexual assault against an 85-year-old woman last week. According to police, who obtained surveillance footage of the initial attack, the victim was walking on East 83rd Street around 5:40 a.m., Monday, May 31, when the alleged attacker grabbed her around the neck and dragged her behind a nearby building. He forced her to perform a sex act and stole a ring from her before fleeing the scene. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and stabilized, and the community rallied in outrage around the vicious crime.
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POLICE SEARCH FOR SEXUAL ASSAILANT
The NYPD is looking for a man who allegedly attacked an 85-year-old woman on the Upper East Side early Monday morning. According to police, the man grabbed the woman by the neck on East 83rd Street and dragged her to the side of a nearby building, where he forced her to perform a sex act and stole a ring from her. The man, who police say is in his twenties and was wearing a light-colored tank top and dark pants, fled the scene but was caught on a surveillance camera. The woman was taken to a hospital and is in stable condition. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is rallying community members to pass out flyers in the neighborhood, and anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS or the 19th Precinct at 212-452-0600.
CRIME SPREE ALERT
Six apartment burglaries on the Upper East Side in the last month have been robbed. Police say the suspected burglar is a male about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, between 40 and 45 years old, who wears gold-rimmed glasses. He apparently enters through service entrances, looking for unlocked doors. Residents are advised to remain vigilant and always keep their doors and windows locked.
Police Arrest Serial Robbers on UES
Police officers from the 19th Precinct nabbed the alleged perpetrators of fifteen robberies throughout Manhattan, five of which happened on the Upper East Side. The duo targeted delivery men, staking them out as they went into buildings to deliver food and cornering them violently to demand cash as they came out, sometimes at knife point.
In Wake of Subway Stabbing, Concerns About Crime on Public Transit
In a blast from the not-so-fondly-remembered past, violent gang activity spilled out of Central Park into Manhattan subway stations last week, with one of the teens involved in the altercation getting stabbed.
According to the New York Post, the trouble began when one gang confronted another in Central Park. One group fled, heading down into the subway station at West 72nd Street and Central Park West and jumping the turnstiles. Read more
