Police released the name and photo of one of the men wanted for a vicious robbery last week at the Columbus Circle station where one of the assailants used brass knuckles. Manhattan resident Recco Dudley, 30, is wanted in connection with the attack on a man waiting for the A train at 5 a.m. on Sunday.
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Given the motivations of so many people represented here, I wonder if a money reward might be offered?
Say what you like, rewards apparently do work. Just ask John Catsimatidis whose $5k offer lead to the arrest of “ice cream bandits” who were plaguing his stores.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/08/22/chelsea-ice-cream-thefts/
B.B., i’m beginning to form the opinion that you do lots of reading and researching.
Seriously, that information was on several local television and Internet news sites.
Kind of curious if this is the same guy? https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/dad-drop-infant-blind-article-1.1248424
of course it is the same guy. poor little kid, that is the saddest thing. I hate idiots who make babies.
Same name and same age and photo looks similar, so likely the same guy.
1. elect Diblasio out of office
2. vote in someone who wants to bring back vigorous stop and frisk
These beatings and muggings are happening to real people and they are often devastating. We all think it will never happen to us. This has got to stop.
Stop-and-frisk isn’t effective generally, but it’s certainly not going to do anything about an old-fashioned beat-down robbery.
Also, it was ruled unconstitutional, so De Blasio couldn’t bring it back if he wanted to. And — shocker! — crime existed under previous “law-and-order” mayors too.
Stop and Frisk was not rued unconstitutional. The lower court found it to be suspect in its outcome and refused to hear the facts that showed the outcome had saved lives and helped the community.
The Appeals court noted the horrific bias of the judge in the case (who made anti-stop and frisk comments in the courtroom) and stayed the order. Bill de Blasio became mayor and decided to appeal the decision. Therefore, the lower court decision has no validity.
On August 12, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled the controversial police tactic unconstitutional. The Bloomberg administration appealed, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the order and sent it back to a new judge. But the court denied the city’s motion to vacate Schneidlin’s decision.
Please don;t even suggest that crime is lower, or even the same under this mayor.. This guy is a disaster – and this comes from a liberal UWS’der
Follow up to my last comment, here’s the historical data for crime in the 24th precinct, where I live (West 84th), to north of the crime in question https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-024pct.pdf
I guess we’d have to look at comparative subway crime to make a better judgment.
I wanted to believe otherwise, since I’m not a fan of DeB either, but most felony crimes are trending down except for Felony Assaults like this one written about: https://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/seven_major_felony_offenses_2000_2015.pdf Data from the NYPD.
Sure feels more like the ’70s I grew up in than under Guiliani/Bloomberg, but I wonder if my fear of crime in NYC now is like my fear of flying in a plane when I was a child.
I don’t like De Blasio and didn’t vote for him. But crime IS basically the same. It just is. Sorry.
“did a robbery” ???
If the police see this lovely young man walking in the street, they will not even stop him — unless he is committing a crime — because we live in a city where police no longer have the right to stop, questions, frisk. Thank you, Bill de Blasio, for protecting the rights of this gentleman with brass knuckles!
Yes, that’s right, we live in a city where you cannot be stopped by the police and forced to undergo a search if you do not appear to be committing a crime. This is something I approve of. Both for me and for other people.
The article where he dropped his child is from 2013. So reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child (and blinding him) weren’t enough to keep him behind bars?
Charges were dropped because there was not sufficient evidence to substantiate charges against the aspiring rapper (Recco Dudley).
Am not going to post a link, but just “Google” name and the whole sad story comes up.
Basically he dropped the child but waited several days before taking it to the ER (NYP hospital). Once there based upon statements made to doctors and nurses LE/child welfare were involved. This of course is natural and the law as such professionals are mandated to report all such injuries.
Family came to the support of Recco Dudley going on about how much he cared for his son and whatever, so there you have things.
Sadly pretty much since the dawn of time infants/children have been harmed and or killed by negligence of a parent/care taker. Equally sad is that for much of the United States minors are considered the unique and exclusive property of their parents/wards. In order to remove and or charge same with criminal negligence the state has to make a pretty good case that will hold up in the courts.
I’m sooooooooooooo glad I “carry”—RET NYPD
I’m glad you do. But I’m not so thrilled about others carrying particularly since they have received less training than the one they received when taking their Driver’s License.