Shootiing: Doyle Av. 19 Pleasant Court, Mt. Hope
Pleasant Court, along with 206 Camp Street, is one of the known drug dealing locations in Mt. Hope, and when I say "known drug dealing locations" I mean known to the Police and to the government of the City of Providence, as well as to any observenat resident of Mt. Hope.
The excerpt below was tacked ontothe end of a ProJo article about a murder on Smith Street near the State House.
Providence records 2nd homicide of 2010
In a separate shooting early Saturday morning, the Providence police said a 17-year-old from Central Falls was seriously injured after being shot as he walked in the Mount Hope neighborhood.
According to a police report, the police responded to 19 Pleasant Court at 1:21 a.m. Saturday and found Jordan Komhlan, of 227 Illinois Ave., Central Falls, lying on a couch with two gunshot wounds.
According to witnesses, a gray, four-door Nissan Maxima with Rhode Island plates and tinted windows traveled along Doyle Avenue near Camp Street and approached Komhlan as he walked to 19 Pleasant. Witnesses reported hearing five or six shots, and the car sped down Doyle Avenue, toward Hope Street.
Komhlan was shot in the lower back and his right leg.
Komhlan was transported to Rhode Island Hospital, and a hospital official said he remained in serious condition late Saturday afternoon.
jjordan@projo
Posted at 12:55 AM | Crime | Comments (0)
Exploding Cars at Abbott & Tecumseh
I wish to remain anonymous:
On the evening of January 12, at approximately 10PM, a car sped down Abbott Street and turned sharply onto Tecumseh Street. We heard a loud "pop," tires squeal, and then a "boom" that erupted with enough force to shake our house. We looked outside and saw that a silver Mercedes station wagon was engulfed in flames.
I am alarmed that this did not make it to any news channel!
Are we so desensitized that exploding cars in our neighborhoods is not a news story? In fact, equally appalling is turning a blind eye to such events! Please investigate!
Pictures from the event:
Burning Car
Engulfed in Flames
Firemen with Burning Vehicle
Aftermath: And in the morning it was gone; just a black mark on the street. Amost as if it never happened.
Posted at 2:55 PM | Crime | Comments (0)
Holy Disgusting Flasher Comment
WOW!!!!!!!
Holy disgusting!
Could you please share the address with the rest of us so we can be on the lookout?
I know you said the "evergreen" apartments, is that the big beige building?
Please do tell.
SORRY you had to see that, I am sure that was not what you or your dog(s) were expecting on your walk and as a dog owner and property owner on Grand View Street I know that I do not want to see that nor do any of my neighbors!
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Been Flashed Lately?
Several weeks ago I was flashed by a man who was masturbating from a window (it was dark out so you could clearly see inside the window) of the Evergreen Apartments.
I live nearby and was walking my dogs. The man yelled until I looked to make sure I saw.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
I hope that everyone who cares about living in a nice community can band together and out grow the drug peddling and other unsavory acts.
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Q: When Will the Recession be Over?
Don't ask me. I don't know. And I don't think anyone knows. All anyone can do, expert or layman, is venture a guess, be it an educated guess or a wild guess, anyone's guess is still a guess.
This excerpt is from the new York Times:
Last Tuesday, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, predicted that 2010 “will be a year of recovery.” On Friday, Americans learned that the gross domestic product fell 6.2 percent in the last quarter of 2008, suggesting that the recession may be deeper than anticipated. So when, exactly, will the misery end? When can we expect to see the economy turn around? The Op-Ed editors asked 11 experts to hazard a guess.
Would it surprise you if the 11 so-called experts have wildly different answers but all have one thing in common: they are all guessing.
So many variables come into play in this economic quagmire we're in that it is really an unfair question to ask when will it be over. Suffice it to say, it won't be over soon, seems to be the consensus, meaning count 2010 and beyond as recession years.
You may have to sign up for the NYT to read the link below (it takes only a few seconds to sign up) but it is well worth it.
Just remember the still resounding words of one expert: "The fundamentals of our economy are sound."
When will the Recession be Over?
Posted at 4:10 PM | Issues | Comments (0)
Still with the Technical Difficulties
The Website is having technical difficulties which is the reason for the dearth of recent posts.
I am working on a complete redesign of the site with some very advanced features and a more inclusive and user friendly interface for community contributions.
Stay tuned and we'll be soliciting your suggestions as the process develops.
Posted at 10:11 AM | Website | Comments (0)
Renovations Coming to Kiddie Park
Mt. Hope is finally joining the rest of the East Side with a state of the art kiddie playground in Billy Taylor Park.
Kudos to Councilman Kevin Jackson for securing the money for the project and to Bob McMahon, Parks Superintendent, for supervising the design and installation.
Our Mt. Hope kids deserve to be served at least as well as other kids on the East Side.
It's about time!
John Twomey
Posted at 10:11 AM | | Comments (0)
Broken Windows Still
Why isn't the City putting all the weight of it's resources and agencies to correct the quality of life imbalance extant in Mt. Hope in comparison to all other East Side neighborhoods. Is the City racist? Do the City's policies toward Mt. Hope reflect institutional racism? Is criminality allowed to prosper in Mt. Hope because there is a small, influential minority population in Mt. Hope who are invested in the Drug Trade and who wield a disproportionate influence on how the police police and the City governs? To the detriment of the Real Mt. Hope? The law abiding, tax paying citizens of Mt. Hope?
Just look at these disgusting pictures of boarded up houses and drug dealing locations!
Knowles Street near the corner with Pleasant Street
Pleasant Street
Camp Street, corner of Camp & Grandview
Boarded up houses on Knowles and Pleasant, a house on Camp Street home to notorious drug dealers who operate in broad daylight with the windows blocked with heavy doors and a garage around back where drugs are peddled and is the site of public drunkenness on a daily basis?
I defy you to provide evidence of any other such properties in similar condition in any other East Side Neighborhood: any other open air drug markets on the East Side. It is just not tolerated in other East Side neighborhoods.
Why?
My best guess is that Mt. Hope is the only East Side Neighborhood with a measurable African American demographic. Drug dealing and dilapidated housing, clearly in violation of criminal law and housing codes, simply is not tolerated in other East Side Neighborhoods.
Institutional racism? Call it what you will, the situation exists.
Is this the fault of the African American Community in Mt. Hope? I think not. The embedded drug trade in Mt. Hope is embedded in the political/social institutions in Mt. Hope who have enabled the drug trade to flourish. Those who are part and parcel of the drug trade who masquerade as community activists and so-called pastors. Preying on their own community, contributing to Black on Black violence. The larger African American community in Mt Hope are victims of these entrepreneurs who prey on their own people with drugs and death.
Drug dealing in Mt. Hope is an African American run business: is that why the City is impotent, or even loath to enforcing the law. Is it institutional racism. The old, "Let them destroy each other, let them kill each other", as long as it doesn't spread to other, predominately white neighborhoods?
From the WPRI report:
Lt. David Schiavulli says "It's kind of the broken windows theory. If the neighborhood looks rundown, and the neighborhood looks unkempt, it invites crime."
The Broken Windows Theory
Hmmmn. Lt. Schiavulli may be a visionary up against the powers that be. I'm sure that if the Lt. had his way Mt. Hope would be free of drug dealing and rundown housing. But he is up against the entrenched political establishement who try to tie his hands behind his back so as to not upset the apple cart and the vote generating machine in the form of M-O-N-E-Y.
Politics is ugly, dishonest, and the new liberal residents of Mt. Hope do not deign to dirty their hands with inconvenient truths.
How convenient.
Yet politics means speaking up for your rights, politics means righting wrongs, setting things straight.
Where is Code Enforcement in Mt. Hope? Where is the Drug Squad, the NOCD, of the Police Department? Where is our Councilman, Kevin Jackson on the embedded drug trade in Mt. Hope.
Are any of you asking these people where they are, what they are doing about these problems?
I guess it's just too embarrassing or scary to make waves, eh?
Not really! Not for a few! Anonymous tips have been rolling in along with cellphone pics. So, keep them coming.
Soon GCCC wil be doing some fundraising to upgrade this website, establish a dedicated tip phone line and to hire a top law firm to represent GCCC and Mt. Hope.
Keep your ears to the ground and continue to be proactive with phone calls to Code Enforcement and to the Police NOCD.
And click on the link below to send anonymous information.
Posted at 10:20 AM | Community | Comments (0)
Search Terms Again
Below, find a few interesting search terms that people have used recently to access our Mt. Hope website.
Interesting.
I wonder what location they are referring to below? I know of only one that fits that criteria.
drug dealers who operate in broad daylight with the windows blocked with heavy doors and a garage around back where drugs are peddled and is the site of public drunkenness on a daily basis
And this is very interesting. God, I love monitoring the website stats.
why? my best guess is that [...] is the only east side neighborhood with a measurable african american demographic. drug dealing and dilapidated housing clearly in violation of criminal law and housing codes simply is not tolerated in other east side neighborhoods. institutional racism? call it what you will the situation exists. is this the fault of the african american community in [...]? i think not. the embedded drug trade in [...] is embedded in the political/social institutions in [...] who have enabled the drug trade to flourish. those who are part and parcel of the drug trade who masquerade as community activists and so-called pastors. preying on their own community contributing to black on black violence. the larger african american community in [...] are victims of these entrepreneurs who prey on their own people with drugs and death.
And finally:
people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we ve got these knuckleheads walking around
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Posted at 10:31 AM | Community | Comments (0)
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