Comments about violence

There are 100 comments about "violence"

Warren S.: "...I think Father Zimmer was reading the weekly anouncements and DP and some other nuns were being sent to other Parishes. When Father said her name, I was stunned and looked at her with a......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

kls: My husband and I have lived in Humboldt Park for 4 years since moving to Chicago from Guatemala. I cannot think of a better compromise for us both. I love being near the shops......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

just me : I like many of you grew up in the HP area. No I don't live there anymore because i had my children and chose not to raise them in that enviroment. Needless to say......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Cecilia Midiri: Sandy, you must live on my street. Just yesterday, I wrote almost the same thing to the Daily News and today they called me to consider it for publication...I'm in the 25th also. Wow, RonS,......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

serlingrod: moral of the story, everyone - deindustrialization ruined these neighbors that so many people who grew up in them loved so much. hard economic times and social/political injustice has transformed them into hotbeds for illegal......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Open your eyes !!: I have read mostly all of the comments on here and it makes me sad to see how ignorant some people really are. What a lot of you need to do is......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

HP Teach: I have been a teacher in Humboldt Park for 10 years. I have seen improvements and setbacks. I have seen how the violence hurts the community. If the gang activity was minimized, the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

mixed opinion: I have been to Cabrini-Green several times. I have a friend that used to live there, I'd go and visit her alot. It is a place that, that city needs. I think they should keep......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot! A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo. [[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]] by Adam Enright I was thrilled to read about......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

andre hayes: this sort of happen 3 years ago but less violence...

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

CE: I was there during the celebrations but left before the riots began. I was going to bike back up at about 1:30am but unfortunately got a flat tire when I was leaving (and my......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Peter: hey "movin to wick", wake up! youre working with a conception of {new york} thats about 20+ years outdated... i mean, serously. youd think {brooklyn} was {beirut}. perhaps youve been watching too much ##law and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

bob: is there still a lot of violence there? or is it pretty much torn down? ...

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

peaceangel: The violence today was in Londonderry, and police say it was unlikely to be sectarian, more like rival gangs, and possibly orchestrated by a social networking site...is that why facebook cannot be opened in northern......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

E$MONEY(1920 BABY 4EVA): I lived in 1920 for most of my life apt,209.My name is eric a.k.a(egg)and i've seen many people from that area fall from chidhood to adult.Caugt up in gangs,drugs,and life hardships.I'm not saying that im......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

D.Bennett: Damn it`s like every time get on here i see a new paragraph about someone who has died from the hornets and often someone i new like (tony Wood aka Nuke i......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

D.bennett: All right real talk i`m tired of hearing people say they`ve read the book there are no children here that book the movie was all bullshit ok u don`t have to feel sorry......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Achiever: I like living in Hutchinson; however, it has shrunk. When my family moved here in 1980 there were more than 50,000 residents in the city, not the whole county. Because of our wonderful city government,......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

K Teesdale: Growing up in Kensington, I knew I had to get out. The social environment was not one to be taken lightly. I learned everything I need to survive growing up in Kensington. I walked. I......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Bill: Saturday Nights in the Early Fortys. 7PM Start out at the Utica Pool Hall(132 Utica Av)for a few games with Mickey, Danny, George and Jimmy 8PM Pickup come Camels at Goldman's Candy Store (145 Utica Av) On......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: sorry about the health care problem there, i am on medicare now but all my working years i paid over $400 a month for my health plan, it was the best, when i had open......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

MaGoo: Thank you, Editor, and UFF and Cartlegger. I won't go hog-wild here- as I realize that there are so many other areas of human endeavor that come into play when discussing this topic, that it would......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

MaGoo: I grew up on Lawn Guyland in the 70's; most of my neighbors were "caucasian-Americans" who were from Bushwick and East New York. They had been displaced by the "diversity"- when the city used THEIR......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

jeeff: looks serene. but i guess looks can be deceiving! **Queen's homecoming turns violent** "Oct. 15, 2007 Queen's University homecoming spilled onto Kingston's streets in a wave of violence, intoxication and mischief that resulted in 54 arrests......

in response to: Student Ghetto Kingston Homecoming by AG

Jason: I'm sorry to agree with Gentrification, The old Southeast Side used to be a mecca of beautiful homes with flowers and families enjoying life in the 1970's-early 80's. The area was majority Irish, Serbian......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

Momma' Becky's daughter: Well, I actually Don't think that Hutchinson Is all THAT terrible... I mean, I know it's really not a whole lotta' fun, and there isn't much to do here... but the beauty of becoming an......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible. Reminds me of this guy......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

anon (cache-dtc-ab07.proxy.aol.com): I grew up in north philadephia kensington area. I still live here. I have to say yes this area is horrible to live in and raise your children in. It's full of drugs and violence. But......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Lisa: Interesting topic, seems to be debated often. Let us sum up the facts: The Hells Angels are outlaws, 1%er's if you will. Outlaws do not live by societal restraints and generally oh make their living......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

EX HAMC MEMBER: I was a Hells Angel for 30 years and quit. I became a born again christian. most of them were meth dealers or crank dealers. Hells Angel member Kenny Owen still a member in......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Joe: Like several that responded to this post, I too was raised in the Horner Projects (2215 W Lake st). I attended RN Dett, McKinley Jr HS and graduated from Westinghouse HS in 1980. I haven't......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Polaco: I grew up with tanks rolling down the street, then at age 8 I lived in NY to see violence in different form, at age 11 moved to Chicago, same shit...When are we all gonna......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

karen: I was out to Belfast earlier this year to visit friends and I did the tour. Canadian born, raised in England with a catholic mother and a protestant Father. I remember growing up with images......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

hannah: i think it is very unfair how people judge us in northern ireland because of some murals. Some of the comments above are really biased. Not all Northern irish peple are secterian. i am from......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

cristina : I'm a young, Puerto Rican girl who was born and some-what raised in Humboldt Park.(on spaulding & wabansia) I live in the southwest suburbs now, since all the gang-violence and poor public school system was......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

John: Well the reason from the sudden Crime wave and violence is because of the Muslim immigrant groups who migrated to Norway such as the pakistani gangs the Albanian gangs and the Moroccans who are all......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

John Bland: The reason it is cleaner is because they have displaced the residents they didn't wanted and now providing superb services, except to those areas that they are still trying to bulldoze. I grew up on......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

finish em off: We live in a beautiful 1st world country with endless options and yet greed cruelty violence corruption and deceipt still plaugue us. These people have no consideration for anyone around them but themselves, they dont......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

matty: my dad and grandfather grew up in the cabrini green area and he says there were shootings there all the time. but then again there are shootings in my neighborhood all the time. ......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

nothing changes: In time, the walls of Cabrini Green will go down but the violence and black on black crime will not. the world never changes and people don't either. ...

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

upfromflames: [[img:18515]] I was surprised to find this entirely sealed up building not in some back street, but at the SW corner of bustling Knickerbocker (nee Maria Hernandez) Park. Is it the painful past of drugs......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Rob: Camden is a struggling city. In Camden, peole don't have what most of us have let alone need. Look a little closer, all they want is peace. End the violence....

in response to: Camden by vz

Derek Jackson: Wow! Reading all this misspelled babble about being proud of being hispanic, about fighting the whites trying to take what's yours, and about complaining about gang violence is making me half-laugh, half-get pissed off. Homboldt Park......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Cleveland: I just have to say there is no place like home when there wasnt another home to be found. I lived in Cabrini for 20 years and even though I've moved on with my life......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

The Chi-ster: We need to see the bigger picture here. Its almost heartbreaking to see people of a common struggle wasting time and lives with petty arguments. I am boricua, I stayed on Kedzie and......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jeeff: there's a big difference between regular bike clubs and biker gangs like the hell's angels. you're doing normal bikers a big disservice by blurring that line. the hell's angels who moved into the......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

Ringo: The "rant" againts christianity was actually more to do with the inferance that christains are superior to antyone wearing a patch. I have not said that pathc holders are whiter than white. I don't know......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Osloman20plus: I just want to say.. All in all, Oslo is still 'nothing' compared to larger and more international cities. But yeah, no doubt it has become worse over the last 15-20 years. But in fact,......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

JNJ: "I was running in Humboldt Park the other day, as I have for a few years, when 2 Puerto Rican 17ish year olds rammed their bicycles into me. I stepped to them, as it were,......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

pariah: Sometimes I wonder if the people defending Bushwick actually LIVE here. Gang violence (Bloods) is up, especially around Bushwick Houses (housing project). Streets are still covered in garbage. Car alarms because of break-ins still blaring nightly.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: Yeah, nothing worse than a tract of over-cultivated green space that you are not allowed to have a picnic on. Up here, hockey is a religion. You are much more likely to suffer violence here......

in response to: U.S. Congressman Foley by sine

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Sis: I looked at the pictures and saw that at least 2 of them were meant to be side-by-side. Here is the merged final image. What story does it tell? The text on the gray wall......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Børge: I don't think the fact that oslo is an expensive city has anything to do with the high crime number. It's also a fact that oslo is unique in norwegian matter. I live in the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

susannah: I was talking to a friend just the other day about how the NYC crime statistics don't really make sense based on what we have personally experienced, I mean, what are the odds? And he......

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

Diaz: Humboldt Park will pass through the hands of the hispanics as it has passed through many cultures. Buildings will be renovated and new homes will be built as the more well off people return to......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

EvilGentleman: plato says: New York implemented new rules about confiscating firearms after a 1992 school shooting in Brooklyn left two students dead. [[http://www.cnn.com/US/9805/22/school.reduced.violence/]]. The new rules failed in 2002, when 2 more students were shot. [[http://www.keystosaferschools.com/Students_Concerned21502.htm]] It seems......

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

Susannah: I think hopelessness and senseless violence are a global issue, whatever form it takes....

in response to: Dawson CGEP Shooting by CE

Jan T: Well, it's expensive for tourists in Oslo, but for someone living in Oslo it's not more expensive than for a Londoner to live in London or a parisien to live in Paris. And it depends......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Tony: I WAS born in a house on Bushwick Avenue and Halsey Street. My father and mother were both immigrants from Italy, They left italy for the new world to improve their lives and to......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Shamie: Thanks for your post Karlo, I have taken it on board. I do actually have a similar viewpoint as yourself and I do not agree with murder and sectarian violence. The reason I posted 'fuck the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: Yeah, he lost his job, but only a month later. They were so desperate for cops, they actually had no choice but to keep him until he could be replaced. They also hired me on......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Genaro: To add to my input above, reguardless of how, why, and what bad experiences we've all have been through, past, present or future, it is okay to be angry, but when it consumes us to......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

carlos mario: Since I'm writing about gentrification in Bushwick, this all is so interesting, especially the part of the story that The Truth mentions, as it relates to what I'm writing. Roger Starr, planned shrinkage, arson, disinvestment,......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Patrick McMahon: Its ha tobe the Irish inme. Aye,aim part o irish but more oft the roman in me. Hackneyed as I am, wot wid the Mohican of bakyard descent, I find it difficult not to......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

T Bagz: Its funny what everyone here thinks of Brooklyn. Yall bin listenin to too much news and rap music. I liv in Bed Stuy and seen lots of tragedies but unless you come round here at......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

EvilGentleman: Jack, are you telling me that there are Vietnam vets out there who do not know what cannabis plants look like? Even if you were totally straight arrow, then you should still recognize the stuff. Cuz......

in response to: End Gender by Biff

dave: The kid with the purple hair needs five upside the face, immediately. As a wise man once said, "you have my attention. now what are you going to do with it?" Also, the sanctity of......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

taylor: an also there might not be as much of wot used to be in the news but their is violence and criminality in estates in certain towns an citys ,an they r prone to sectarian......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

EvilGentleman: So sad, that some people really think that in order to achieve "respect", they must develop relationships with others based solely on the need to feel superior through violence. Meanwhile, the "loser" kids that they......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Lucky: I was recently in Chicago with my 17 year old daughter so she could visit a few colleges there. I had never been to Chicago nor had I ever heard of Cabrini Green. We stayed......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

EvilGentleman: Is there no such thing as respect for life nowadays? I have even seen the usage of cats for dissection in classrooms used as an explanation for why our response to a frozen critter in......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

EvilGentleman: So if I get this right, anon from Hawaii is of the belief that we should not let our emotions guide our actions, but should instead do nothing. Yet this inaction should require that we......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

anon (cpe-72-134-234-209.hawaii.res.rr.com): It's true. Animal cruelty does indeed create serial killers. Just look at the ALF (or just about any of the "concerned, caring activists" that've posted at this point) - they presume cruelty, so......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

GGP: apparently, violence really begets hits--no pun intended....

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

GGP: yeah, groovehouse, there is a high correlation between cruelty to animals and violence against human beings; witness the entire human society....

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

anon (p54907093.dip.t-dialin.net): Hi I'm half German. I live in England and have done for 3 years. I like a lot of the people there, as you do in every country you meet good people and bad people.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Boriqua/Morena: Violence happens everywhere not just in Humboldt Park. But if we learn how to prevent it then we(H.P.)won't be looked at so badly......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

gringa latina: Well, here I am again. I wrote my last post in Spanish I guess as a sign of respect to all of the latino residents of Humboldt Park and to write as a "white......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: ha ha thx, i guess i've seen too much anger and violence in my day's in brooklyn and to escape the memories i turn to laughter. life is short. we don't pay attention......

in response to: Hornet\'s Nest by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Gang violence, an apathetic, uncaring public, and a justice system more concerned with the rights of the defendant than those of the victim, these are all hallmarks of an advanced liberal society. If only Plato......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

Guy McLaren: Jack the violence is over reported and exaggerated, The crime is over reported and exaggerrated. Crime exists world wide, some if the stuff we have can be horrific but stay out of the slums and......

in response to: Some of the Creatures That Share My Environment by Guy McLaren

jack: a beautiful country with beautiful people and much violence. good movie to see is the constant gardner....

in response to: Some of the Creatures That Share My Environment by Guy McLaren

Cyberia: (ran out of room ;-;) A crime rate of less than 6% in country of over 4 million is quite low, with over 2/3 being non-violent petty crimes (theft, vandalism). If you beleive that distributing Drugs......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

Litter did I Know: If any Driver/person/biker throws litter on the ground/ out their window into to my path, I am always ready to regift it to them. I don't need to throw it at them but if they......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Viceroy Snuffleupagus: This forum discussion is an excellent example of discursive disintegration by virtue of anonymous expression. I'll explain, as this message board was an opportunity squandered. Sure, an argument can be made on behalf of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Michael: Sometimes it takes an over-the-top incident to make a point that's well worth making. I commend this woman for having the guts/audacity to throw this guy's crap back in his face. I'm sick......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Outsider's view: With all this hatred, the British could leave and you would still destroy yourselves. You have hatred for religion and hatred towards countries - there is little hope unless you change your attitudes. ......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

justanote: it is not a matter of each thinking the other wrong, and gwbush has shown the mayham of 'principled confrontation'. Does the word vigilanty come to mind? Civil life means electing people and institutions which satisfy our......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jp: People commending Leah for throwing trash in that guy's car are absolutely ridiculous. There is no justification here for commiting a crime (granted, throwing trash in someone's car could probably only be......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

NDP Voter in Ottawa: Is anyone else wondering why incidents like this don't occur more often? Each of us has seen someone blantanly littering on our city streets. The reason is that anyone with an IQ higher than 70......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

The Jury is STILL out on Evil Gentleman: I have no idea what your moral values are, and whether yours clash with mine, or even whether, collectively, ours clash with the next community's. Long ago, the competing ideals of clashes of moral values,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

EvilGentleman: Well, I have gotten some rest and have done a little catching up on what was posted here while I was away. I am coming to the realization here that no matter what somone posts,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

anon (67.69.143.162): Based on what i gathered to be the real story behind this incident....I can only stress that like other great cities.....people in Toronto should emphasize civilian policing for people that litter the streets....and should do......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Dan: I can't believe I read this far... Because of the notoriety of this blog entry, its not surprising to see so many trolls coming here. I have to believe that a lot of the angry people......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Think of poor White Vest Girl!: First of all - Leah, you are my new hero. Yes, you over-reacted, but at least you 1.) have respect for your town and your environment and 2.) you had the grace to admit that......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Mac: I can't even begin to fathom the Angst and anger being displayed on here. People!!!...REALITY CHECK! Listen to yourselves "it's us against them" My God, do you even realise what your'e saying? There has to......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool