Newburgh, Murder Capitol of NY

Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York 

This tiny city has a crime epidemic reminiscent of the Bronx of the seventies. It is also the scene of some of the most ambitious gang raids ever conducted, led by an FBI agent who knows the young men he’s arresting only too well. 

One morning earlier this month, just before sunrise, a silent convoy of SUVs streamed into the tiny, troubled city of Newburgh, New York. Over 200 law-­enforcement officers descended on the blighted heart of town, and a company of military-style commandos prepared for a synchronized raid. Armed with M4 assault rifles and dressed in helmets, goggles, and green fatigues, SWAT teams burst into a series of dilapidated houses, shouting, “FBI! Get down!” 

Stop and frisk dawg!

By late morning, twelve alleged members of the Bloods street gang were in ­federal custody. Along with eight others who were already behind bars, the young men were charged with murder, attempted murder, robbery, ­assault, possession of firearms, and conspiracy to distribute drugs. It was the third major sweep by federal authorities in ­Newburgh over the past sixteen months. At a press conference, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that the raid was designed to ­“restore the rule of law” in the impoverished city, where violent street gangs “have held the good citizens of Newburgh ­hostage for too long.” 

Beautifully situated on a picturesque bend in the Hudson about a 90 minutes’ drive north of New York City, Newburgh does not look, from a distance, like a community mired in High Noon levels of lawlessness. But in actuality, it has less in common with bohemian Beacon, just across the river (“Williamsburg on the Hudson,” as the Times recently anointed it), than it does with, say, West Baltimore. Despite its small size and bucolic setting, Newburgh occupies one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States. “There are reports of shootouts in the town streets, strings of robberies, and gang assaults with machetes,” an alarmed Chuck Schumer said in a Senate hearing last year, describing the situation in Newburgh as “shocking.” With a higher rate of violent crime per capita than the South Bronx or Brownsville, little Newburgh, population 29,000, is the murder capital of New York State. 

Read the full expose here: http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/newburgh-2011-10/ 

With sister city Poughkeepsie rated as #6 top cities in the country to raise a family, it is hard to imagine that just a short hop down the river you could wind up in the epitome of ghetto life in America. At one time, back in the early 90's, Poughkeepsie also wore this dubious crown of being the most fatal stretch of urban blight in a state famous for its urban nightmares. We were even graced with our very own homegrown serial killer.

We are not without our troubles still today, but since then, "PoTown" has seen significant recovery and development of its urban terrain, in particular in the trouble hot-spots such as the waterfront and downtown Main Street. For whatever reason, Newburgh did not follow suit, and instead has now been sucked into the depths of misery reminiscent of the 90's crack epidemic which spread across NYC and urban centers across the state and nation.

There is no simple solution either. While police swarm the neighborhoods in true Gestapo fashion, many of the citizens who live there see the police as a force every much as oppressive as the gangbangers who battle for control of the streets.  

Hundreds March on City Hall in Wake of Fatal Police Shooting in Newburgh

Sadly, Newburgh now represents so much of what is wrong with our nation. Narco-gangsters spawned or imported as the result of social disintegration and a lack of meaningful opportunity, juxtaposed against the stormtroopers who defend the very system which created the conditions in the first place.

What a miserable state of affairs, for all involved. The sh*t had to land somewhere though. With gangsters and cops alike feeling so utterly hopeless in their endeavors, and murder their only unity.

DISCLOSURE: Life on Mars Discovered in 1976, Top Scientists Say

There have been other events and straightforward scientific data to support the notion that there is life beyond Earth, but for the most part, this information is not readily accepted by mainstream science or the general public. This might change that...

New analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows that NASA found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week. 

Further, NASA doesn't need a human expedition to Mars to nail down the claim, neuropharmacologist and biologist Joseph Miller, with the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, told Discovery News. 

More at link:

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47031923/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T4izZNVrWku

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Zimmerman a Pedophile? (EXCLUSIVE REPORT!)

Seminole County, Florida - With the discovery today of sexually explicit material in a Florida storage unit, some officials are speaking off the record about their suspicions that George Zimmerman may have wanted to have sex with Trayvon Martin.

"Being a neighborhood watch captain puts one in a unique position to be able to prowl for victims," one official tells us. "Given the nature of the material we found in this storage unit, I would say it is quite possible that he was on the prowl for young black males."

Inside the storage unit believed to have once been rented by George Zimmerman, were sexually explicit DVD's depicting various grades of fetish filth. But perhaps most alarming was one title, "Black Anal Fisting #55" in which actors even engaged in toilet plumbing hardware fetish acts. Most of the actors in the film were of African-American descent, leading some to wonder why a white man would have black porn in his storage unit.

A spokesman for the company who operates the storage unit facility stopped short of confirming that George Zimmerman actually rented this particular unit, but did confirm that, "He has rented from us in the past, we can verify that with surveillance video taken in the office."

While none of the pornography uncovered is explicitly illegal, another police official had this to say: "Given the disturbing nature of the material uncovered here, it is not a stretch of the imagination at all to assume that someone who would watch this, would prey on young black children for sexual gratification."

A Trayvon Martin supporter shares their own opinion of the discovery saying, "It never made sense to me until now. Why else would Zimmerman have bothered to take notice of a stranger walking around his neighborhood in the rain staring at houses? I mean, after all, he had his hood up, it's not like he was going to get very wet. I think when the truth comes out at trial, we will find that this white guy just had a thing for black kids."

A Zimmerman supporter tried to deflect blame though, telling us, "You can hardly blame him if that's the case. He probably saw the Skittles pack in Trayvon's hand, and took that as a sign that he was willing to share gay sex, maybe for more goodies at the corner store. I think it was irresponsible of him to flash his Skittles at strangers in traffic."

Stay tuned for more updates.