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Originally Posted by NyWriterdude
I never thought NY was scary in the 90s, at least not most of Queens and Manhattan.
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For us in the Jamaican community living in Brooklyn was scary because the Jamaican posses were one of the elements driving gun and drug crime then. Things I remember: they used to control buildings, fire shots (gun salutes) at block parties and clubs plus shootings in broad daylight. Things got better when the Jamaican and American governments put teeth into their extradition treaty; the Feds started to aggressively imprison and deport the criminals; Guiliani started closing down notorious clubs (Biltmore, Starlite etc.).
These actions are partially responsible for the drastic increase in violence in Jamaica to this day. We have a lot of deportees from the UK, Canada and mainly the US flooding back and these guys do what they know best there.
Anyways, sorry for the long digression.