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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 04-23-2001 @ 1:13 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | POLICE SWEEP 1,400 PUSHERS FROM HARLEM By MURRAY WEISS April 23, 2001 -- More than 1,400 drug peddlers have been arrested in a massive NYPD initiative launched after outraged Harlem residents ripped Mayor Giuliani for not being tough enough on local narcotics traffickers. During one round-the-clock, weeklong assault, dubbed "Operation Riverside," 162 cops working in nine-member teams saturated Harlem streets that were awash with drug sellers and buyers - making an astonishing 610 arrests. A second wave of cops hit the streets during the past week, scooping up another 200 suspects. "We are going to get their attention," said Assistant Chief William Taylor, the 36-year police veteran who was put in charge of the NYPD's Narcotics Division as part of the shakeup implemented after angry Harlem residents spoke out at a Feb. 26 town-hall meeting. In addition to the arrests, cops have confiscated 44 cars from people who went into Harlem to buy drugs, as well as $1 million in cash, cocaine, heroin and marijuana. "We take their money, take their drugs, take their cars and we take them," Taylor said. At the town-hall meeting, Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik tried to fend off a raft of complaints, citing a decline in neighborhood crime. But their statistics only inflamed the crowd, with one angry resident after another describing how they were brazenly approached by dealers as they walked to the meeting. Taylor said he spent his first couple of weeks mapping out an assault plan for Harlem. Then, on March 18, he launched his unit's initial foray. He said he is using a combination of tactics to clean up the streets, including teams of cops making buy-and-busts, executing search warrants, checking vehicles with out-of-state license plates that cruise Harlem searching for drugs, and working with landlords to arrest trespassers. Not everyone in Harlem has welcomed the show of cops, particularly some merchants on Broadway, who say a police van parked near 145th Street is scaring customers away. They've written to the Civilian Complaint Review Board about the van, claiming harassment. But several community leaders have fired off letters of their own to Gene Lopez, the CCRB director, alerting him that the harassment complaints come from "so-called merchants" who work with the drug dealers.  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton, General (1885-1945) | ||||
| HummerLovin I hope people forgot that I went home with Sandy Kane one night | posted on 04-23-2001 @ 1:15 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | There are drugs in Harlem? I can't believe it! [fuck sig pics]I'm fucking sick of the hassle[/fuck sig pics] "Exams are over and I am happy! So, if i'm mean, it just means that you're an asshole!" | ||||
| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 04-23-2001 @ 1:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: This was my favorite part where drug dealers are sending complaint letters about a police van because it is ruining business. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton, General (1885-1945) This message was edited by TeenWeek on 4-23-01 @ 1:35 PM | ||||
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