Fighting Crime Where the Criminals Are
Posted on 26. Jun, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Editorials, Opinion, Race, Shera Crossan
THERE was a predictable chorus of criticism from civil rights groups last month when the New York Police Department released its data on stop-and-frisk interactions for 2009. The department made 575,000 pedestrian stops last year. Fifty-five percent involved blacks, even though blacks are only 23 percent of the city’s population. Whites, by contrast, were involved [...]
Puerto Rican Day Parade Marches On Fifth Ave.
Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Events, Immigration, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan
When was the last flag waving European Day (Insert Country) Pride Parade, you’ve seen or been too in the United States? I am not talking about St. Patrick’s Day or Oktoberfest either. . . Fifth Avenue will once again be a sea of red, white, and blue flags as more than 2 million people are [...]
Protesters descend on Ground Zero for anti-mosque demonstration
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Shera Crossan in 9/11, Audio-Video, Free Speech, Religion, Shera Crossan
Protestors gathered in lower Manhattan mid-day Sunday to demonstrate against plans to build a mosque near the site of Ground Zero, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamist hijackers on September 11, 2001. Protest organizer Pamela Geller, a conservative blogger, and her group, “Stop the Islamicization of America,” planned [...]
Suspected Bomb Prompts Clearing of Times Square
Posted on 02. May, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Events, Shera Crossan, Top Stories
The police began evacuating Times Square, starting with businesses along Seventh Avenue, including a Foot Locker store and a McDonald’s restaurant. Kevin B. Barry, a former supervisor in the New York Police Department bomb squad, said he was told it was an improvised explosive device. But somehow, he said, the ignition source “failed to function [...]
Nurse brutally beaten by Hispanic male.
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Feedback, Hidden Crimes
– A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said. A police security camera near the bar’s entrance captured images of the man afterward walking down the sidewalk and looking at [...]
Seperation of Church and State.
Posted on 20. Dec, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Israel & Jewish Issues, Opinion
NEW YORK — Bicyclists who planned to go topless to protest the removal of a Brooklyn bike lane switched gears Saturday, pinning plastic breasts to their jackets as they rolled into a snowstorm. Dozens of bikers joined a protest called the “Freedom Ride” to oppose the removal of a bike path in Williamsburg, an Orthodox Jewish [...]
Firefighter beaten in Lower Manhattan
Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Events, Feedback
Firefighter beaten in Lower Manhattan An off-duty firefighter is fighting for his life after being severely beaten near the Staten Island ferry in Lower Manhattan. The firefighter is identified as 34-year-old Matthew Duggan, assigned to Ladder 15 near the South Street Seaport. The assault happened just after 1 a.m. Monday. Authorities say Duggan and his [...]
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