Only in our wonderful neighborhood, Crown Heights, can we all be terrorized and not a single governing body take any action against it! Let alone make a public outcry!
Today, Purim, the known 2 officers (Kennedy and Mintz) along with a blue “Traffic Enforcement” police car occupied by 2 black officers one male and the other female, were observed ticketing motorists for double parking (to give out Shalach Manot) and any other violation they can pick off anyone on. In a number of meetings the Commanding Officer of the 71st precinct had said that selective enforcement (ticketing only Jewish motorists) is not only not tolerated, it’s also illegal. But residents couldn't help but notice that the only people that were being pulled over, were Jewish.
So Who Got A Ticket Special for Purim?
Only in our wonderful neighborhood, Crown Heights, can we all be terrorized and not a single governing body take any action against it! Let alone make a public outcry!
Today, Purim, the known 2 officers (Kennedy and Mintz) along with a blue “Traffic Enforcement” police car occupied by 2 black officers one male and the other female, were observed ticketing motorists for double parking (to give out Shalach Manot) and any other violation they can pick off anyone on. In a number of meetings the Commanding Officer of the 71st precinct had said that selective enforcement (ticketing only Jewish motorists) is not only not tolerated, it’s also illegal. But residents couldn’t help but notice that the only people that were being pulled over, were Jewish.
In one incident that took place on Albany and Empire people had observed how the officer who was going to pull over a motorist took the right turn with such recklessness, nearly hitting a child who was waiting for the light to change! What? What is going on? Are the police looking to loose another Squad Car, but this time with a fatality as well?? Where will this end?
It is a well known fact that the Police include summonses and fines as part of the budget, that’s the reason there are quotas, but what just last night there was an accident with a police car, are they already trying to compensate the cost of a car?
so sad.we lose! and always will. HELP!!
every word is true here!
i saw this all morning. this is a out cry!
how long were they planing this ?[ police]
when is the next time? erev pesach?
do we wait till a child will get hit from there car running after a jewish driver,AND THEN DO SOMTHING?
I AM SORRY TO SAY THIS HERE.but i dont think any one here in crown heights has the guts to stand up and do the right thing!!
we will all lose as we are losing now,and the officers kennedy car#1474 WILL KEEP GIVING US TICKETS WITH A SMILE.
lizman
AD MOSAI
DO WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS ABUSE DOES ANYBODY HAVE A GOOD IDEA WHATTHE AVERAGE GUY CAN DO ?
lizman
I once heard that in the good old days. when the police were not paying attention to anybodu there were "monitors" that would drive around at night and keep a log of how many police cars are parked at the 71st precient and where the other cars were.
maybe we can have volunteers that will agree to follow these 2 anti semites and track them during their 8 hour shift and keep a log on them for a week or 2.
maybe this can be aranged through shomrim. i doubt the CHJCC will do anything.
any comments on this ?
c.h. going down the tubes
ridiculous even if we are at fault for double parking etc. for one day they can "look away" they do it for our african neighbors on labor day when they come and take over the neighborhood and we have to search for parking for 2 hours, where are our representatives demanding equal rights!!!
E.E.
If people really want to do something about these anti-Semitic cops ticketing us then anyone who has received a ticket from them – even if they deserved the ticket but were treated like trash and yelled at – needs to log a written complaint with the commissioner at 1 Police Plaza with the names of the specific officers. Each letter that is sent will be logged into the officers files, so the more official complaints that are received notice will finally be taken. We obviously cannot rely on our "wonderful" community council for any constructive advice on how to deal with this so we have to take matters into our own hands. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS RECEIVED A TICKET, DO THE COMMUNITY A FAVOR AND TAKE ACTION NOW!
CD
Webb,
People saw them pulling over black people and leting them go this is the second person that i heard it from. And one of the people that they pulled was a black male and he gave the officer a p.b.a that been out of date for over a year and they did not give him the ticket.
And yes where are being pulled over b/c we are Jewish and no other reason. The comminty has to take action in this manner and there is no reson that the comminty cant step up and fight
Yisroel
I saw the two black "Machsheifos" giving out 3 tickets in 20 minutes on Empire & Albany. In Borough Park and Flatbush this will never happen. where is Chanina & Moshe Rubashkin and Shea Hechet when you need them?
Israel
yesterday on Purim I watched from my window with horror as this black officer kennedy pulled over a hapless mother with a child, for not wearing a seatbelt. there is no question that Jews are being singled out to be ticketed for minor infractions. something should be done to put a stop to this harrassment. maybe we should call the mayor to have these antisemitic cops transferred out of the neighborhood.
Ticket Tzurus
It seems that whatever the topic or headline is in this
(terrific) blog there is always a comment by someone outraged that traffic laws are enforced.
As both a driver and a pedestrian I must tell you I am in constant fear of the drivers of Crown Heights.
In a community that prides itself, and rightly so, for adherence to the laws of G-d, they seem to have disdain for the laws of man whenever it’s inconvenient.
A red light means stop, it is not a suggestion to stop or speed up, or OK just one more car. Turns require a signal..always, and from the correct lane. Talking on a phone held by your hand up to your ear is illegal. Seatbelts must be worn always. A double parked car must have a driver behind the wheel.
Who you are or what mitzvah you may be performing or unfamiliarity with the law is not an excuse. That everyone drives a minivan full of enthusiastic kids probably doesn’t help negotiate traffic.
The police department has always had qoutas; the drivers of CH make them easy to fill and so we seem "targeted". Why should the police bother looking to others in the community when they have such an easy time looking to the Jewish community. If any individual officers are abusing their power they should, and with presure from us, will be diciplined. This is not the answer in itself however, let us always look to ourselves first. In any civilized society there must be laws and those laws must apply to everyone equally without exception. What we are talking about is a matter of safety for everyone.
Enough already with this pervasive mentality that everyone is always out to get us for no reason. I don’t believe for a minute that included in G-d’s plan for us is that we should be bad drivers.
When will Moshiach come? One of the ways I believe is when we have adherence to the law and respect for each other.
B’H
Drive Safely Obey the law.
crownorion
these antisemitic officers should be taken out of the force and given dicrimination and racial profiling litigation and training. racial profiling will not be tolerated. put complaints to the equal oppurtunity, deal with the problem as a state problem rather tha a 71st pct problem. this issue should go forward to the police ombudsman offices in the city ,than rather a 71st pct issue. let the state deal with its advocacy and discrimination issues with its police departments.
rabbiner
Just stop talking ont he phone and wear seatbelts and youll be allright
To Ticket Tzurus
If you fear drivers of Crown Heights…then you probably never left crown heights, it is ridiculous to say that they fill their quota on kingston and on yidden because it’s so easy…it would be a lot easier to do it on utica. as someone who drives around the city a lot, i can tell you from what i saw that as far as cell phones are concerned, we undoubtebly use headsets a lot more then most of the black drivers, which would work as well regarding adherence to seatbelt laws, speeding, etc. etc. to suggest that there is any reason other then disdain or plain out anti-semitism for the targeting of jews, is very……71st preceint’ish!
Regarding double parking, go find a black event, where there will be many double parked car, and wait for the ticket blitz to start….you will be waiting a while!
then go to a yiddishe event, and see how fast they come!
By the way, i agree about the necessity to follow the law and drive safely!
ahse
the Rabbiner comment is not true.
we just spoke to someone by the seuda last nite that he was stopped and this officer looked at him for about 10 seconds and then said "seatbelt". he told her I am wearing the seatbelt the whole time- her response was "you just put it on" and he got a ticket and the judge did not even want to hear his facts. this is the jungle we are living in today. Unfortunately, the law is dumb & blind.
770
i think this is crazy
yechi
we need a video if them pulling over a black and letting them go and giving a ticket to a jewish person
if i get one of these videos they are out of their job
there is no proof so the NYPD cant really do anything they were watched and did a search on them and found that they ticket blacks as well not as much as jews but blacks as well as long as they do that there isintt much we can do unless we do something we need 200 ppl to stand by their car so they dont run after jews
livin it up in CH
I have to agree with TIKCKET TZURES , there are laws and regardless of what it looks like – if we, you all do the right thing in this case safety is key all around you’ll be just fine. The cops are just doing there job. I personally see many vrazy drivers in CH if one of them were to hit your kid you’d think differently.
Stop knocking the system all day, and get off your butt!
Boulevard
Dear Ticket Tzuros I got a ticket for alternate side on Purim even though 1010 wins radion reported that alternate side was suspended.
Solution
Look, let’s all face reality: these machasheifos will not be stopped and are doing what they are doing within a framework that allows them a loophole in their discrimination.
There is, however, one way to stop them:
LET US NOT GIVE THEM ANY MORE TARGETS!
I always tell people and I do the following myself: Do not commit any violations in Crown Heights, not so much to avoid being ticketed, rather to stick it to these cops by not giving them anymore convenient targets.
As upset as we are, the fact is that nearly all of those pulled over were actually guilty of the the accused violation. That said, if we all were super careful to not commit any violations, they would find no more targets and will have to look elsewhere.
Therefore, let us all unite and not give them any more easly korbonos – not so that we don’t get any more tickets, rather so that THEY do not get anymore easy targets.
My feeling, however, is that there will always be carelsess violators, and that those cops will always have easy targets. I hope I am wrong.
photographer
maybe someone should follow them with a camera and get evidence of their illegal selective enforcement, and their reckless driving habits which endager us instead of protecting us and making us safe
outraged
you know what…
if we would all drive without cell phones, with our seat belts on… and if they still give us tickets, then we can complain, but if the peple of crown heights drive wrecklessly, then yeah, they will ticket us, we asked for security, for cops to secure ch, and we got it!!
video
we should stand near them all the time with a video camera. wherever they go, we shuld be thee with a camera in hand.
Informed
To all those saying that we deserve these tickets:
Not to say that there isn’t a need for people to drive safer around CH, but there definately is a need for these (2 anti-semitic) cops to stop harrasing the Jewish community. A large number of the people that they have ticketed were not actually guilty of the crime being pinned on them, such as being accused of not wearing a seatbelt, or using a cell-phone etc. when they actually were weaaring a seatbelt, or using a hands-free device!!! They aren’t just enforcing the law, rather using it as a tool to enforce their anti-semitism! Theyv’e been quoted as answering someone who asked "why am I being ticketed for something I didn’t do?" with saying, and I quote: "Shut up, because we can do whatever we want!"!! A cop with that attitude isn’t just enfoorcing the law, but is abusing it!
re: outraged
outraged. did you know that on utica ave,this is going on all day!! do you know that on flatbush this is going on all day!! crown heights is no difference except for the fact that only jewish drivers are stopped.
i have never seen the same on utica ave or flatbush ave or any other place.do you know why?because nobody else will ever stand for it!!
frustrated former out of towner
Most of the problems I have with cars as a pedestrian is usually them not realizing that the pedestrian has the right of way and this has mainly been with non Jews. Sometimes with Jews but not often. I was walking with my toddler last week and this non Jew tried to cut me off as I was crossing the street and it was my right of way. And then of course he yelled at me.
SHIMON
PHOTOGRAPHER IS RIGHT. EVERYONE ON FOOT NEEDS TO FOLLOW THESE COPS AROUND WITH VID CAMS, STILL CANS, ETC, INCLUDING KIDS. LET THEM GET NERVOUS AND MAD. IF YOU REN’T IN A CAR THEY CAN’T DO A THING.
WE ALSO NEED TO GET SOME LAWYERS INVOLVED TO SUPENA THE ARREST RECORDS OF THESE 2 COPS (FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES RECORDS TO BE KEPT I THINK) AND SEE HOW THEIR ARREST RATIO OF JEW TO NON-JEW COMPARES WITH THAT OF THE OTHER COPS IN CH. WE KNOW THAT THESE 2 ARE VIOLATING OUR CIVIL RIGHTS BUT WE HAVE TO PROVE IT AND TAKE IT TO THE PROPER AUTORITIES OUTSIDE OF THE POLICE AND CITY AUTHORITIES.
MAYBE SOMEONE HAS OTHER IDEAS AS WELL.
OF COURSE WE HAVE TO AND SHOULD OBEY THE LAW, SOME OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT OUR LACKADASICAL ATTITUDE HERE IS RIGHT, BUT THESE 2 DON’T CARE ABOUT THE LAW- THEY WRITE FALSE TICKETS. WE NEED TO FIND WAYS OF RELENTLESSLY FINDING EVERY LEGAL WAY- CRIMINAL AND CIVIL- TO GET THE 2 BUMS REPLACE BY REAL COPS.
RE-SOLUTION
RE- SOLUTION AND THOSE THAT SIDE WITH THE POLICE.
THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT ABOUT GIVING TICKETS TO THOSE THAT SHOULD GET IT. THE ISSUE IS HOW THIS IS GOING ABOUT DOING IT.
A COP CAN AND WILL FIND A WAY TO GIVE ANY KIND OF TICKET IF THEY WISH TO.THE LAW IS VERY LONG.HOWEVER 30% OF THE LAW ON DRIVING LAWS IS NOT EVEN KNOWN.LIKE I SAID,A COP CAN AND WILL ALLWAYS FIND AWAY OF GIVING A TICKET IF SHE WISHES.SORRY TO SAY NO ONE CAN STOP HER!! AND AS OFFICER KENNEDY SAID BEFORE,I CAN DO WHAT THE HELL I WANT.SHE MAY BE RIGHT.HOW SAD.
always_good_to_smile
as I sit here and read all the comments I think its very cute to see everyones advise, inpute and opinion it’s great to see everyone’s excitment and brotherlyhood (if you wanna call it) when it comes to these things. please dont let all this disturbe your sleep and may we only here god news
Eli
BTW, I recently went to court to fight a seatbelt ticket she gave me, and there were a bunch of people fighting similar tickets from her, and I hate to break it to you, they were all BLACK!
If we’re gonna claim that they’re profiling, we need real proof.
halachic yid
Maybe if we yidden obeyed the law like we are supposed to then we wouldn’t get ticketed etc.
I know that this is an outrageous suggestion and apologise for any offence caused.
an observer
to boulevard
311 also said that alternate was suspended so use that as your proof to fight the ticket online
good news
i just spoke to moshe rubashkin who told me that whoever got ticketed on purim for double parking should bring the ticket either to batya braindel in the chjcc or give it to inspector vegas and it will be taken care of
Cisco
Are you for real.
Let me see if I have this correct.
You feel that Jewish people are being targeted by the police moreso than other races, assumingly Black, since the make up the majority of the population in this area of Brooklyn.
Now grant it, the Jewish population has been the target of hatred world wide for a long time, but ticketing……
You are really going to have to do a little bit more research before I buy that one.
sara g.
I live right across from the church on Empire Blvd. Whenever there are services, the block is full of double parked cars. The police department which is right there, never sends any of the numerous officers out to ticket these cars. They must be too busy upstairs in their recreation room watching TV. It does seem as if they are targeting Yidden
Dina
I observed as these 2 blacks gave a ticket to the woman who was not wearing her seatbelt. They kept her waiting over 45 minutes to write the ticket. Also, they illegally called her out of her van to go over to the police car. We have photographs of this illegal police request. Something must be done to end this harrassment NOW!
Moses
Thanks to Moshe Rubashkin!!
Kiss these Police, reward them for making us misserable and destroying our Purim.
for every ticket they write they get another hug and a kiss!!!
halachic yid
Moses – maybe if you obeyed the law your Purim wouldn’t be ruined.
The laws regarding wearing seatbelts, not talking on cell phones etc are made to keep YOU and other safe. You obviously have no regard for your and your families lives.
Sympathetic to the CH losers
B"H I don’t live in CH – though when I come to visit, I feel how sickening it is with these cops. There is no other place in the world where you will get a ticket for being 1 inch too close to a fire hydrant, and let me tell you that after driving a few hours to CH and arriving at 2 am, the last thing you want to do is spend another 2 hours looking for a parking.
Laws are made to keep order, when you abuse these laws to make peoples lives misrable, it will obviously have a negetive effect, and people will start to cut corners. I’m not saying that every driver in CH is a Tzaddik, and obviously laws have to be kept, but these Nazi’s take it too far.
All I could say is that if this would happen in Williamsburg – you could take a wild guess where these cops would be…
If I would live in CH, I would at least make those machseifas lifes misrable to say the least – there are enough pissed off people in CH, why don’t you all get together and do something?
Then again… nothing constructive will ever happen in CH so why waste my time on this.