Bronx Residents Screaming “NYPD Stop these Robberies!”
A spate of robberies in the West Bronx has one group of residents saying the New York City Police Department has little control over their neighborhood. The crime victims are Mexican immigrants –and they say local gang members target them because they carry cash. WNYC’s Marianne McCune has the story from the Fordham section of the Bronx.
REPORTER: A church called Our Lady of Refuge made the front page of the Daily News in October when ushers found a drug dealer doing business in the lobby.
JENIK: A guy was selling to two buyers. Right inside the front doors.
REPORTER: It happened, Monsignor John Jenik says, just one week after the church dared to unlock its front doors – they’d been bolted for years for fear the dealers WOULD find their way in.
REPORTER: On a recent Sunday after mass, some of Jenik’s parishioners gathered to ask again for the attention of New Yorkers. (SPANISH: Sali del subway … ) A Mexican immigrant named Jorge described how two kids tried to rob him on his way home from the subway.
JORGE: SPANISH: Entonces dije es la hora de correr …
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