Crown Heights, if you remember, started off real small. Then it grew -- never huge, but big enough -- through neglect. The cops in Paris should have taken a course in it.
The individual cops in the NYPD never lost their stones during Dinkins, but it got to the point where it was just ridiculous. It became a question of: Why bother? Remember when Dinkins sided with the drug dealer uptown?
Yep, especially regarding the Dinkins crew neglect that made Crown Heights into a much bigger problem. Shameful.
And yeah, the cops were the good guys under Dinkins, but they were handcuffed by City Hall. "Why bother?"
What was that foul word a very irate Rudy G was using at a hot police rally outside of City Hall that day? "Bull$hit!!" I think that clip was even used by the Dinkins tv campaign in the second Rudy-Dinkins mayors race. What they didn't understand was that it expressed the sentiment of too many NYers: it was an effective ad, AGAINST DINKINS!.
Still, Rudy first lost a close race to Dinkins then won a close race to Dinkins. A city divided, all that jazz.
I bet Dinkins and crew in City Hall were peeking out the windows and had all sorts of foul words that day!