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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Maritime Snaps Losing Streak 

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Maritime Snaps Losing Streak : --> BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- The Maritime basketball team snapped a four-game losing streak in dominating fashion on Tuesday night a...
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Maritime Snaps Losing Streak 

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BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- The Maritime basketball team snapped a four-game losing streak in dominating fashion on Tuesday night at the Riesenberg Hall Gymnasium, claiming its second victory of the season, 79-57, over Skyline opponent Mount St. Vincent. The Privateers improve to 2-11 (1-7 Skyline) with the victory, while the Dolphins fall to 4-12 (2-7 Skyline).
“I am so proud of our team tonight,” said head coach Jake Scott. “Everything we have been working on to this point came together. They deserve to be excited after that win. We will continue to work and improve every day. It was a great team effort.”
Sophomore T-Vaughn Gibson (Freeport, Bahamas/Sunland Baptist) led all players with a career-high 28 points; 17 of them coming in the second half. Classmate Sean Corley (Harlem, N.Y./Thurgood Marshall) drained 19 points, while also grabbing six rebounds and dishing out six assists. Senior Ron Bethea (Harlem, N.Y./Humanities Prep.) was limited in the second half due to an apparent leg injury, but still scored 13 points and had a game-high seven rebounds in just 27 minutes.
The Privateers charged out to a 21-point lead, 28-7, at 7:48 of the first half, but Mount St. Vincent fought back with nine straight points in just three minutes, all but two were off of Maritime turnovers. The Red and Blue were able to correct their mistakes and held a 12-point, 35-23, lead at halftime.
The Dolphins picked up their game early in the second half and the lead was cut down to just eight points, 45-37, at 14:03. However, a long stretch from 10:22 to 4:24 of the second saw the Privateers expand their lead to a game-high 23 points after a 20-7 run made the score 71-48. It was capped off by Gibson nailing two free throws.
Mount had three players score in double-figures, led by junior James Zuccaro, who had 18 points. Sophomore D’Andre McPhatter added 13 points and a team-high seven rebounds and junior Gerard Fraser scored 11.
The Privateers shot a season-high 51.0-percent from the floor (26-for-51) compared to the Dolphins’ 32.8-percent (22-for-67).
Maritime is back in action on Thursday, when the squad will travel to Brooklyn to take on NYU-Poly. Game time is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Jays’ Jacobs Gymnasium.



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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): St. Raymond High School Basketball Past Meets Bask...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): St. Raymond High School Basketball Past Meets Bask...: --> BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- Excitement filled the air at the St. Raymond High School for Boys gym on January 20 as alumni, family...
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St. Raymond High School Basketball Past Meets Basketball Present

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BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- Excitement filled the air at the St. Raymond High School for Boys gym on January 20 as alumni, family and friends of the school celebrated the past and present of the basketball program.  
Gary DeCesare ’81 coached the St. Raymond Varsity basketball team for 16 seasons until 2003. After coaching stints with DePaul University and Richmond College, DeCesare now helms the St. Rita High School varsity team in Chicago who visited to take on St. Raymond.  
St. Raymond entered the game with a record of 10-5, and a number six ranking in New York City according to MSG Varsity. More than 75 alumni from the school attended to watch DeCesare take on first year coach Jorge Lopez and the St. Raymond team. The game was exciting throughout, with St. Raymond emerging victorious by a score of 56-52. Leading the Ravens were Tory Ferguson with 15 points, Shawn Jones with 13 points, six rebounds and three assists and Luis Santos with 11 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks.
After the game, all players and fans remained in the gym as Coach DeCesare recognized the 20th anniversary of St. Raymond’s first state championship in 1993. Many of the players, managers and coaches of this team returned to celebrate the past and present of St. Raymond basketball. “It is great that so many guys were able to come back today,” said Alex Perez ’95, one of the team’s student managers.  
Each player was presented with a St. Raymond windbreaker, championship t-shirt, framed photo of the team and news clippings from their historic season. “That really was a true team,” coach DeCesare said. “You had 12 guys that battled every day in practice.”  
Charlton Clarke ’95 approached the podium next to provide plaques to coach DeCesare and assistant coach Greg Scott ’72 on behalf of the 1993 championship team.  Coach DeCesare led St. Raymond to New York City Championships in 1991, 1993, 2000 and 2001, and state championships in 1993 and 2001.  
The St. Raymond varsity team rode the momentum of the St. Rita victory into wins in their next two road contests: January 21 at Moore Catholic and January 22 at Mount St. Michael.  The defending city champion Ravens are now 13-5 as they enter the final stretch of their schedule before the playoffs.    
St. Raymond has been welcoming back alumni throughout the basketball season, acknowledging the 40th anniversary of the first Varsity B team and the 35th anniversary of the first freshman city championship team at the annual homecoming event in December. 


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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Bronx Seeing Major Drop in Crime

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Bronx Seeing Major Drop in Crime: --> BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. released statistics highlighting the decrease in murders in the Bronx ...
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Bronx Seeing Major Drop in Crime

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BRONX, NEW YORK, January 23- Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. released statistics highlighting the decrease in murders in the Bronx in 2012. Last year, the Bronx had a total of 112 murders, down from 148 in 2011 and an all time low in the borough since the early 1960s.
“We are fed up with the negative stereotypes and the erroneous images about who we are as a Borough. The Bronx is a different place from when I was a teenager in the 80s and 90s, and hopefully we can make 2013 safer. This is a good first step, but we have much more work ahead of us,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
“I would especially like to thank the hard work of the NYPD, our elected officials, community organizations and everyone who continues to help make our borough a safer place to live.”
With roughly 1.4 million residents in the Bronx, statistics show that in 2012 the Bronx had a murder rate of 8.0 per 100,000 residents. For example, in 2012 Philadelphia’s murder rate stood at 21.4 per 100,000 residents, while Boston had a murder rate of 9.1 per 100,000 and Newark had 33.1 per 100,000 in 2012.
Other cities with significantly higher murder rates than the Bronx included New Orleans, Detroit, Atlantic City, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Dallas and Houston. Los Angeles, with a murder rate of 7.7 per 100,000 residents, barely edged out the Bronx in 2012.
“The Bronx is outpacing the nation in a wide variety of areas, including crime reduction. These statistics show that our borough, which continues to suffer from an inaccurate image as a dangerous place, is indeed outpacing some of the nation’s biggest cities when it comes to violent crime reduction. Given these numbers, it’s time for people across the nation and the world to reconsider how they think about the Bronx,” said Borough President Diaz.
Since the NYPD began tracking crime statistics through CompStat 19 years ago, the Bronx has seen a 70.4 percent total drop in crime, including a 78.1 percent drop in murders. This year’s drop is the lowest number of total murders since 1963. In 2012, the borough saw a drop in shooting victims of 7.7 percent and in shooting incidents of 6.7 percent from the previous year. In the past 19 years, the Bronx has seen shooting victims drop 65.1 percent, and shooting incidents drop 68.5 percent.


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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

NYPD Says it Will Take 3 Years to Install Cameras Even Though They have the $

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Wakefield Area News

 
Crime Camera Fiasco

 

By Mary V Laura




BRONX, NEW YORK, January 22- Precincts divide their territory into sectors. Generally these are neighborhoods. Within the 47 Precinct, there are neighborhoods that are comparatively crime free and others that definitely are not. Some neighborhoods have only two percent of the crime, others 30 percent.

 

Last week we took a look at the 47th Precinct's overall crime statistics for 2012. It was not nice. Out of the 59 Precincts in the City, the 47's crime is in the top 10 percent. To make matters worse for Wakefield, its sector is the second highest in crime in the 47. Obviously the goal would be to lower that number.

 

How to do that (prevent crime) is a complex subject with many subdivisions. We mention only two: prevent crime and arrest perpetrators. Both of these functions are assisted by today's technology. Surely we are all aware of the role cameras and photography play in the apprehension of evildoers. It is almost a nightly regimen for a TV News program to show the photo of a perpetrator, or an incident caught on camera.

 

Because of that, a few weeks ago we lamented that our elected officials become engaged in any number of great-sounding schemes but neglect some very obvious constituent problems and their solutions. We mentioned security cameras to curb crime because, surely, in a crime-ridden area avoiding crime is on every constituent's mind.

 

How much crime can cameras stop? Well, they will not stop Murder or any crime not committed in sight of the camera such as some rapes and Grand Larceny, but they may well stop Robbery, Burglary, Assault, Grand Larceny Auto and shootings. If cameras were pervasive, would-be perpetrators would think twice before donning their masks.

In any case, after we wrote our column we discovered that Councilman Oliver Koppell had purchased two cameras for the 47th Precinct but that the protocol for installing them would take a minimum of three years! What kind of nonsense is that? How many criminals will escape justice while we wait for cameras to be installed?

 

In July of last year, Commissioner Raymond Kelly wrote to Councilman Koppell thanking him for allocating funds in the 2013 fiscal year Adopted Capital Budget for the purchase and installation of NYPD ARGUS surveillance cameras. He goes on to say, "Although we will make every effort to install the cameras as quickly as possible there are several steps necessary to accomplishing this task, including initiation of the contract procurement process, approval by the Mayor's Office of Budget and Management of the certificate to proceed, the selection of appropriate locations, the approval by the affected utility company or other agency (Con Ed and/or the New York City Department of Transportation) to connect to its electrical lines and available vendor resources." The Commissioner goes on to say that other Council members have allocated $8.5 million and the Queens Borough President another $2 million for the same purpose. That amounts to 649 cameras that must go through the aforementioned process before being installed. And so, he concludes that it will take about three years before the cameras are installed.

 

But wait, there is more. Placing the cameras, that is, their location is not something, which will be determined by the councilperson that allotted the money for it. “Therefore," the Commissioner writes, “In agreeing to accept these funds, the Police Department will need to retain the ability to make the final determination as to the camera locations, and to set the priorities for the installation process."

 

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