Brooklyn 
Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 11:29:54 AM EDT
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The New York Times has a very interesting article examining how the NYPD has stopped and searched 52,000 people in an eight block area in Brooklyn over four years. The neighborhood, Brownsville, had a very high crime rate. However, there is little evidence to link the effects of stopping every single "suspicious" person in the area and any decrease in crime. The 52,000 stops yielded arrests of a whopping one percent overall and uncovered 25 guns. While many people living in the community say that a police presence is important, they are also understandably not pleased with the way policing is happening.
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Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 14:37:15 PM EDT
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“The Holocaust is a uniquely Jewish event.” So sayeth Assemblyman Dov Hikind, representative of Brooklyn.
You might not be aware that Nazi Germany, in addition to murdering six million Jews, also managed to snuff out the lives of some five million other undesirable groups: gays, Roma (gypsies), and Jehovah’s Witnesses just to name a few. If you weren’t aware of that, it’s probably due in large part to the efforts of people like Dov Hikind.
The occasion for Hikind’s remarks is a plan that would honor gays and other non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution at Brooklyn’s Holocaust Memorial Park. You’ve probably seen a memorial like the one in Brooklyn. They exist all over the country, virtually anywhere a sizable population of Jews reside. It hardly matters that the Holocaust didn’t happen here. Hikind and others in the Jewish community have made it a communal mission for several decades now to commemorate the deaths of 6 million Jews at the hands of Hitler’s minions.
Good for them. I’m a fan of remembering the Holocaust. I think it’s a significant part of our history, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, and we have much to learn from it. As with all shameful moments in human history, it can be tempting to turn away from it, bury it, pretend it could never happen again. It is critically important that we not bury it, not forget it, if only because it certainly can happen again.
During World War II we marched Japanese-Americans into internment camps. After 9/11 we didn’t have to march Arab-Americans and other Muslim citizens into camps. But we did persecute them in a similar manner. In a moment of fear, we repeated our historic mistakes.
To avoid this, we study history. That is why it is there, recorded for posterity. That is how we learn.
That is why Hikind is an unlearned fool.
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Thu Nov 20, 2008 at 14:07:02 PM EST
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[Tuesday, Nov 18th, St. Paul Community Baptist Church]
I was late. Arriving at St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York on the first bitterly cold night of the season (in my opinion), I could already hear the noise pouring out of the hall. IAF actions are known to start on time and end on time (not the Iron rule, I might call it the Bronze rule), so my 7:10 arrival meant that I got there as Rev. David K. Brawley was describing what the members of East Brooklyn Congregations have been able to do in their community. “Yes, we did,” he shouted, as he described the Nehemiah houses, “Yes, we did,” the community replied when he spoke of improving local public schools.
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