Newburgh, New York- Our small city has more churches per capita than any other city in the U.S. We have the broadest Broadway in the U.S. A higher crime rate than New York City. Our dropout rates are astounding. Our unemployment rate is too. We have a large Historical District.
Hey kids! George Washington slept here!
P. tied his pit bull to a store's fence by its leash. The dog was muzzled and the leash gave the dog about four feet of wandering space. He did this because he wanted to purchase an item at the store. The dog was on the sidewalk with a reach that would let it move less than half way across the sidewalk.
A woman ran into the store screaming that the dog had chased her into the street and tried to bite her. P. went out of the store and saw that the dog was still tied to the fence and he and the store owner say that the dog had not barked.
P. accused the woman of lying. She threatened to shoot the dog. P. left the store and took the dog home. When he returned to the store the woman, a child and another woman began throwing rocks and bricks at him. The child threatened P. with a knife, so P. and the store owner called the police.
The store owner and P. told the officers what had happened. P. said that when the police department responded they refused to take his complaint because they wanted to defuse the situation. An officer told him that they had not had any complaints like that about these people before.
P. says he will go to the district attorney today and attempt to swear out a complaint.
This morning, one of my neighbors said "I had to call the police on my girlfriend." I asked him what had happened and he told me she has been using drugs and that she brought a crack pipe into their apartment. She was high on drugs. She had been fighting him and he did not want to hit her back because the police would have arrested him.
He explained to the officers that she was causing trouble. He said he was worried because of her drug use. He could not take it anymore.
The police had been there in the past. Once she had hit him in the head and caused him to get stitches to close the wound.
They have a child of less than one year in the home.
He asked the officers to go inside and take her drug paraphrenalia and arrest her. They told him that they did not want to search the place. He gave them permission to look around. They refused.
The police officers told him to leave the home for a while until she cooled down. They suggested that he apply for custody of the child and have the girlfriend evicted. He had to leave the baby in the apartment with the girlfriend.
One day I went to the corner store. M. the counterman told me that a boy, a teenager had come to the store and said that he hated M. He told M. that he hated all Arab people. He told M. he was going to kill him, showed a gun and ran away.
M. said that he called the police. After about fifteen minutes an officer arrived. The officer asked him where the boy was. M. said "He ran away. He went that way."
The officer asked why he didn't call when the boy was still there. He told him that if he saw him again to call back. The officer walked out too.
