Congratulations! Finally, someone has managed to get the NYPD to release crime statistics on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. Unfortunately for us, this only confirms that our neighborhood is what we have always considered it: the most dangerous place to live in the 52nd Precinct. Sector “G,” otherwise known as “George,” where Our Lady of Refuge Parish resides, is first in homicides and burglaries, tied for first in felony assaults (which includes shootings), second in robberies, tied for second in rapes, and third in grand larcenies.
We don’t live in precincts, we live in neighborhoods. We don’t want to hear the police from the Five-Two talking about crime statistics for the entire precinct; we want to hear about the statistics for our neighborhood. The statistics for Our Lady of Refuge are the worst in the entire precinct. Telling a neighborhood with the worst statistics that crime is at an all-time low in the precinct is like a doctor telling a patient that he is in terrific shape but his liver is rotten with cancer.
Monsignor John Jenik,
Pastor, Our Lady of Refuge
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