Newark hits 100 homicides (2013, house, purchase)

[jabe]

2 Teens Gunned Down as NJ City's Homicides Hit 100 - ABC News

2 Teens Gunned Down as NJ City's Homicides Hit 100

Police are investigating the Christmas night shooting deaths of a boy and a girl as murders in New Jersey's largest city reached 100 for the first year since 2006.

Newark police say a 13-year-old and 14-year-old were killed in a shooting that has also left a third young victim hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

Shaheedah Frazier, the mother of the wounded teen, says her son is unable to breathe on his own. Frazier tells reporters that a friend of her son's says they were on the porch of the family's three-story house when a gunman wearing a ski mask came up the steps and started firing.

Police haven't released a motive.

Newark police reported 96 homicides through Dec. 8. At least four more have been reported since.


Newarks murders by year -
2000: 58
2001: 90
2002: 65
2003: 81
2004: 84
2005: 97
2006: 105
2007: 104
2008: 67
2009: 80
2010: 90
2011: 94
2012: 96
2013: 100

[izannimda]

So what else is new with Newark?

[BugsyPal]

Just another day in paradise.

Again Cory Booker legged it out of Newark soon as he could find something better, just as anyone else with an ounce of sense.

[camaro69]

How sad that this is expected and really no one cares.

[TylerJAX]

Why the heck would someone want to shoot kids who are barely in their teens?

[cm5878]

Congrats to their epic achievement

[JERSEY MAN]

Add the 500 or so carjackings to the 100 murders and where are the Newark cheerers. Was and is a ****hole for the longest time.

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by camaro69

How sad that this is expected and really no one cares.

Don't think it is a matter of no one caring but at some point things are what they are and aren't going to change without a *massive* effort.

Time to change an area is when it starts going down hill, not when it has become a cesspool. Saw that with Staten Island, little by little the "hood" moved over and or in and before you know it.....

Newark has been on the decline since the race riots and other factors drove decent persons out in the 1960's. Nothing much has worked to reverse that trend despite all the "assistance" various federal, state and other agencies have poured into the place.

Newark will NOT change until a large segment of the population want things to change and stop putting up with the antics of local hood rats. Young children and teenagers have been shot and or killed in that place for years now, and little seems to have motivated change. Decent persons keep their heads low and look for a way out, again just like Corey Booker.

Only way to save or turn around the place is to again do some massive urban renewal program. Use eminent domain to purchase large blocks of property, move the current things out, tear down and rebuild. In order for decent persons to return to Newark it will be required to keep much of the "old" from returning. Sadly but it is true in that people aren't going to move there if any inkling that the hood rats are either returning or coming back.

Moving away might be the best thing to happen for some Newark residents. If given proper funds to start elsewhere many young children and perhaps even young teens can get a different perspective on life and not go down the wrong path. Lord know where they are now good role models are few and far between.

[nybbler]

I wouldn't put the total at 100 yet: There's still time for a few more.

[Marc Paolella]

Originally Posted by BugsyPal

Don't think it is a matter of no one caring but at some point things are what they are and aren't going to change without a *massive* effort.

Only way to save or turn around the place is to again do some massive urban renewal program. Use eminent domain to purchase large blocks of property, move the current things out, tear down and rebuild.

What in the heck will knocking down buildings and replacing them with new buildings accomplish? How does that change bad character? How does that replace an absence of morality? How does that establish a proper philosophy of rational self interest? How does that imbue a value for life?

It doesn't. It can't. It hasn't. It won't.