From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Subject: NYC HA POLICE SHOOTING 2
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:21:46 GMT

This is second edition of same press release.
Contact: Ray Normandeau of Queensbridge Tenant Council, 718-392-1267
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

             Second Shooting at Housing Police in a Week
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   New York City Housing Authority Indifferent About Public Safety
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Normandeau Newswire- The shooting of New York City Housing Authority
Police Officer Barbara Cook at the 10 building, 1379 apartment Martin
Luther King Houses housing project January 5, 1993 is actually the
second time in 5 days that shots were taken at Housing Authority
Police.

During the New Year's festivities someone had shot at a Housing
Authority Police car at Astoria Houses, home of deposed NYC HA tenant
leader Violet Hamilton.

Conditions are so bad in some housing projects, that at Queensbridge
Houses a 24 hour store operates with its burglar gates rolled down
and padlocked at night. There is a small opening for sales but no way
to escape in case of fire. It is suspected that the Queensbridge
Houses cleaners has people working all nite behind its rolled down
and locked gates. In 1992 the New York City Housing Authority Police
office at Queensbridge Houses was fire-bombed.

How can anyone forget the shooting of the school principal at Red
Hook Houses.

Why is there so much violence in public housing?

Tenant leaders say that it because NYC HA bureaucrats know that there
is little likelihood of tenants making any waves. So there is no need
to do anything.

Parents of children injured by criminal tenants normally just chalk
it up as something that happens in housing projects.

In Chicago, UPI reported on January 5, 1993 that a mother of a child
killed by a sniper is suing the Chicago Housing Authority, accusing
the CHA of neglect and "utter indifference" to public safety.

How much concern does the New York City Housing Authority show for
public safety in its housing projects? On December 6, 1992 the
Queensbridge Tenant Council faxed NYC HA Chairperson Sally
Hernandez-Pinero to say that a few hours earlier police had arrested
someone who had been shooting from an apartment window at
40-09 Vernon Boulevard and asked;
     "How come we never hear of these people who shoot from the roof
     tops, the windows and the street corners getting evicted?"
NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero never responded.
Indifference?

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