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Monday, March 22, 2010

News Cop Sits in Tiny Box Twenty Feet Above the Ground, Fails to Stop Crime on Earth's Surface

Posted by Jonny Diamond on Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM

Buckaroo Banzai haz a sad.

It's called a "Skywatch tower" and it's supposed to deter crime by making criminals all paranoid (and evoking images of weird police-state totalitarianism, also): the latest one has been set up in Fort Greene/Clinton Hill, at the corner of Myrtle Avenue (the erstwhile "Murder Avenue") and Carlton Avenue. And as this Brooklyn Paper story reports, the preventative police-presence strategy is definitely working:

About an hour and a half after the tower was placed on Myrtle Avenue on Thursday, a 70-year-old man and a 30-year-old man were sprayed with bullets as they talked to each other by the corner.

So there you have it. A man suspended twenty feet above the ground in a tiny box is definitely the answer to the city's crime. Thanks, Cop-in-a-Box!

Tags: Skywatch, cops, policing, Myrtle Avenue, Murder Avenue, crime, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, stupid things, gun violence, if everybody is watching everybody else all the time then everybody will be fine, surveillance, totalitarianism

        
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