Newburg, New York the Murder Capitol

One morning earlier this month, just before sunrise, a silent convoy of SUVs streamed into the tiny, troubled city of Newburgh, New York. Over 200 law-­enforcement officers descended on the blighted heart of town, and a company of military-style commandos prepared for a synchronized raid. Armed with M4 assault rifles and dressed in helmets, goggles, and green fatigues, SWAT teams burst into a series of dilapidated houses, shouting, “FBI! Get down!”

By late morning, twelve alleged members of the Bloods street gang were in ­federal custody. Along with eight others who were already behind bars, the young men were charged with murder, attempted murder, robbery, ­assault, possession of firearms, and conspiracy to distribute drugs. It was the third major sweep by federal authorities in ­Newburgh over the past sixteen months. At a press conference, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that the raid was designed to ­“restore the rule of law” in the impoverished city, where violent street gangs “have held the good citizens of Newburgh ­hostage for too long.”


Beautifully situated on a picturesque bend in the Hudson about a 90 minutes’ drive north of New York City, Newburgh does not look, from a distance, like a community mired in High Noon levels of lawlessness. But in actuality, it has less in common with bohemian Beacon, just across the river (“Williamsburg on the Hudson,” as the Times recently anointed it), than it does with, say, West Baltimore. Despite its small size and bucolic setting, Newburgh occupies one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States. “There are reports of shootouts in the town streets, strings of robberies, and gang assaults with machetes,” an alarmed Chuck Schumer said in a Senate hearing last year, describing the situation in Newburgh as “shocking.” With a higher rate of violent crime per capita than the South Bronx or Brownsville, little Newburgh, population 29,000, is the murder capital of New York State.


For two decades, American inner-city crime has been dropping. Major urban centers from Boston to Los Angeles have seen murder rates plunge, and the most dramatic transformation of all has unfolded in New York, which in recent years, in the improbable but accurate boast of Mayor Bloomberg, has become “the safest big city in the country.” Across the country, violent crime has fallen to a 31-year low, despite the economic crisis, upending the bedrock sociological correlation between tough times and higher crime.


But if our major metropolises are so safe today, how do we account for the fact that Newburgh, whose residents could comfortably transplant into any small pocket of Manhattan (and probably would, given half the chance), is struggling to cope with a deadly gang war, open-air drug markets, and citizens who are justifiably afraid to walk the streets—the very “big city” problems, in other words, that our actual big cities appear to have licked?


Nor is Newburgh an anomaly. Once-placid Poughkeepsie, another twenty miles up the Hudson, has a gang problem, too, and trails only Newburgh for violent crime in the state. The FBI estimates that a single gang, the ferocious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is active in the bedroom communities of Long Island as well as nearly every state. A threat assessment released in 2009 by the National Gang Intelligence Center found that gangs are “migrating” from urban areas to suburban and even rural communities. Statistics indicate that crime is dropping more quickly in our big cities than it is in their environs. One theory, which you’ll hear on the streets of Newburgh, is that New York City cleaned up crime by sweeping it into the surrounding area.


Just recently, however, things have started to look up for Newburgh. Starting with a spectacular raid in May 2010, authorities have indicted over 100 alleged members of the two dominant gangs in town, the Bloods and the Latin Kings. The drug trade has ebbed a bit, and some of Newburgh’s meanest streets are suddenly safe to walk for the first time in years. If the improvements hold, it will be owed, in large measure, to the efforts of an FBI agent named James Gagliano, the head of the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force. “Jimmy Gags is a force of nature,” says Bharara. “That guy deserves an unbelievable amount of credit.”


Gagliano was first dispatched to Newburgh in the spring of 2008, after demoralized city officials implored Albany and Washington to send reinforcements. Imposing and athletic, he has intense blue eyes and a shaved head. He speaks in the quick-fire, fuck-inflected argot of New York law enforcement and has a tendency to lace a monologue with rhetorical questions asked and then answered.

A Question About Taxes

I pay a registration tax on my car.  I pay sales taxes on everything including food.  I pay another tax on my car every year.  I pay house taxes too. I pay school taxes for kids that are stupid. Besides that the lottery was suppose to pay a good hunk of school taxes and it doesn't. I pay all kinds of taxes.  I never complained about any of them because I always figured they all balance out, that I would get something in return for it.  Would someone care to tell me where all my tax dollar are going.  If I had all the tax money I have paid in my life it would be a good retirement fund.  Why don't we all get a statement from the government on exactly where all our tax money is going.

Sarah Palin Would Make A Good President

Sarah Palin is well spoken, well versed, well dressed and a whole lot more.  She would be an excellent representive around the world for America.  She has a beautiful family and a good husband.  She is feminine like a lady should be.  She says a lot about the American Woman today.  She hasn't lost it, like so many have.  She has political know how and did well in Alaska.    I think she could enchant the world.  Most likely this will never be though.  There is now reason to rip her apart, if you are a lady or gentleman.  She has done a good job with her life.  Even if a flaw is found,  I have yet to see anyone perfect.  The ones that most criticize have the worst flaws.  I think we're ready for a lady for president.  Not by the party.  Sarah Palin,  would be just what this country needs in a woman president. 

What The U.S. Government Has to Hide

Ever think about all the things the US government has to hide from the people.  For one thing all the wars the United States are always in.  They people aren't fighting for us, they are fight for the government.  Think about the Viet Nam War.  Little Viet Nam was no threat to the US.  They couldn't do a thing to us.  The government thrives on wars.  They want to kill Americans off.
Another thing President Reagan and President Bush, Sr.  always talked about having a one world order.  The government wants the whole world ruled by one leader, and that will be the last anti-Christ.  It will be Satan his self.
As much as some of you love President Obama, he is pure evil.  He is destroying this nation faster than any other President has.  He is leaving the senior citizens for dead.  He is pictured with little children signing bills, just like Hitler was.  He has hog tied almost everyone into believing he loves America. 
Don't you wonder about all these people who are coming out and killing people all over.  They claim they are hearing voices controlling them.  I believe the government has something to do with those voices these people hear.  See the more the government can stir up the people about gun control the easier it will be to take away the people 2nd amendment.  Even Russia says don't give up your rights to own guns. 
The US government put up more satellite in space than anyone else to spy on people.  Thomas Edison discovered electricity by a bold of lightning hitting the ground.  So don't you think the government can put sounds and voices down to the earth too.  Unfortunately some lunatics get a hold of this technology to use for the selfish and insane ideas too.
Also the government has take away the right for people to work and have good jobs.  President Clinton signed NAFTA which sent millions and millions of jobs over seas.  Hitler did the same thing.  Now I'm seeing my fellow Americans go down the same path blindfolded.
The government has destroyed the family structure.  Now both parents have to be out there working and the children are left at the mercy of the government controlled schools.  They teach them all kind of crap and distort their minds.  The parents don't have time any more to teach their kids what is right.  The school have taught the kids to turn their parents in if they discipline their own kids.
The government rewards teens that get pregnant with a welfare check.  The kids fall right in to the welfare trap and never get anywhere and known anything about the real world.  The government loves the dumb society that is now coming up. They are easier to control.
To be continued.

Birth Defect that never Existed

Do you see all the birth defects around now in the 21st century.  They never existed in the 60's and 70's.  I believe and I am sure it is coming from all the drug users.  Autism was hardly know of years ago.  Even though some people stopped using drugs it affected their genes and as a result you have all these birth defects now.  ADD if it even exist comes from drug users.  You alter your genes when you use drugs.  This is all the results of it.

Crime & Incarsinaton of NYS Teens

Until January Ashley Evans seemed to be defying the odds. Unlike 65 percent of New York City's minority youth, the 18-year-old cheerleader was poised to graduate from August Martin High School this June after four years in the Jamaica, Queens school. Evans would have been one of the estimated 120 students to walk across the stage on graduation day.

But during the early morning hours of Jan. 27, Ashley Evans became part of a new set of statistics. Evans and six others ranging in age from 14 to 23 have been charged in connection with murder of 28-year-old Nicole duFresne on the city’s Lower East Side. Evans is being held at Riker’s Island Correctional Facility facing second-degree murder charges. She is among the black and Hispanic youth who comprise 95 percent of the city’s total juvenile inmates, according to the Correctional Association of New York.

A report issued last year by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University found that New York State has the worst overall graduation rates for black and Hispanic minority students. While nationwide 50 percent of minority youth graduate within four years, in New York the figure stands at 35 percent. The report also said that due to discrepancies in reporting, the actual drop-out rate may be even higher.

Jason Blonstein, a professor of urban education at Steinhardt, said there are several causes that can explain New York state’s dropout rate. First, he noted that New York City minority students have a tendency to change school districts several times even before they reach high school. “Students who move from school to school, neighborhood to neighborhood, seeing the world through the lens of poverty and its attendant tendencies toward crime and hopelessness” are more likely to lack adult mentors and role models and oftentimes turn to criminal activity or drugs.

“No school reform effort, particularly the lame attempt at uniformity by the New York City system, aimed at cognitive achievement will affect [this issue],” Blonstein said.

He also cited school class size as a factor. More effective schools, he said, must have smaller class sizes and more extracurricular programs “to compete with the opportunities for sloth and escape outside the school.”

Evans likely had class sizes nearing 35 students, the average at August Martin. Her school averages 13 more students per class than New York state’s average of 22 students, according to the National Education Association.

The Center for Civic Innovation reported that more female than male students graduate within four years, 54 percent to 45 percent. In fact, the school enrollment numbers for women have been steadily increasing according to a January 2005 report by the Community Service Society of New York. While male enrollment dropped by 1.2 percent from 1996 to 2003, females in New York City schools increased their enrollment by 7.1 percent.

The Women In Prison Project reported that from 2002 to 2003, the number of female prisoners nationwide rose by 6.3 percent, nearly double the increase by men. Many of these women were, like Evans, of high school age. The National Criminal Reference Service reported that in 2003, 20.4 percent of all females arrested were juveniles.

The Women In Prison Project noted that of among incarcerated women, more than 60 percent lack a high school diploma and only 44 percent can read above an eighth grade level.

 

Halloween Holiday

Halloween is Satan's greatest holiday.  Penna. School is absolutely right in not allowing it to be celebrated.  Do you know how much property is destroyed on Halloween?  Satan glorifies in little children dressing up as witches and ghouls.  It's the calling up of Satan's demons.
Satan is very clever in trapping your little children into thinking it is fun to destroy private property and look ugly.  Also consider the people that put poison in and nails in the candy.  It is truly a Satanic holiday.
Beside that if they don't what Christ in Christmas, then there should be no Halloween.