New York, NY – Should New York City’s department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer Chief of Department Joseph Esposito be disciplined for using inappropriate language, which he has acknowledged doing while trying to bring the situation in Borough Park, Brooklyn last Tuesday under control?
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A New York media news outlet has launched a “Snap Poll” feature, which allowed subscribers in New York City to use their remote control to answer poll questions.
The results was
Yes 21.0%
No 76.0%
Undecided 2.0%
Esposito had the courage to stand up and apologize for what he said at the heat of the moment.
Simcha Felder, who called his own brethren “HOOLIGANS” should really be ashamed of himself.
Are you so offended by a GOY using vulgar vocabulary?
What do you expect when you refer to us like that?
Furthermore Esposito who’s job it it to enforce law & order said he want the *** Jews outa here.
But Felder a so called Ben Torah had to take it a step further and say”
“They (the Jews) should be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law”
Where is Felder’s Apology to the community?
Until then if you see him simply tell him ”SHAME ON YOU”
Down with
you have seen their immunity from parking tickets? you mean to say that before they ticket a car they check to see if it’s owned by a chasid? where can they get that info? is it noted on the registration? it may all be in your mind. i am a chasid residing in BP for the past 48 years & have been ticketed on several occasions & have never noticed any chasidic immunity from tickets.
they get away with striking p.o.? were you there & saw that they got away with striking p.o.? did you also see p.o. getting away with swinging indiscrimantely at unarmed civilians for no good reason? did you also see p.o. arresting an innocent civilain so that they could say that he tried to trip them – an out & out lie?
i don’t know in which part of BP you live in, or maybe it’s not boro park at all, perhaps boro hall?
Obviously they would never have to use guns, there isn’t a hava amina that the yidden would have weapons on them.
As a resident of Borough Park for the last 30 years, I question why is it that Hasidic Jews in Borough Park should get preferential treatment from the police? I have seen their immunity from being issued parking tickets.
How do they get away with striking police officers? If it were any other religious group, they might have gotten shot.
which media outlet is it? Id love to vote.
The Young and the Restless Opinion Columnist in The NY Times
THE Orthodox Jews of Borough Park in Brooklyn lead a double life. They are at once an insular community, deliberately isolated from what many see as the corrupting force of the surrounding culture, and an integral and recognizable part of New York. That duality was on display last Tuesday, when protests erupted after an encounter between police officers and an Orthodox Jew who was stopped for talking on his cellphone while driving.
Of all the Jews in Brooklyn, about 37 percent call themselves Orthodox, and of all the neighborhoods in Brooklyn, none is a better known Orthodox heartland than Borough Park (or, as the locals spell it, Boro Park). The neighborhood, which took on a suburban character in the 1920’s when rows of houses were built on tree-lined streets, has been transformed over the last 40 years from “suburb to shtetl,” as the sociologist Egon Mayer put it.
The Hasidim and other ultra-Orthodox Jews make up a significant proportion of what seems to many outsiders an extraordinarily closed society, with its Yiddish vernacular and expressive Jewishness. which has more than 110 yeshivas, 240 synagogues and many Jewish specialty shops, and where the sexes are segregated to the greatest extent possible, they often you could feel that you are visiting another country.
Community leaders and most of the adults in the enclave know that they depend on the police to make their island in the city secure. They value their officers — even if they are certain that many have no understanding of the culture and society they protect. This is a profound change for a group that includes a great many children of Holocaust survivors as well as survivors themselves; in their collective memory, the police were often a part of the problem rather than a source of security. It is not surprising, therefore, that many of these older people, including the 75-year-old man at the center of the incident, were unwilling to condemn the police unequivocally.
Young people, born and raised in New York, were the ones who caused most of the hubbub last week, and for all the efforts their elders have made to insulate them from the surrounding culture, they’ve absorbed it. When they began yelling, “No justice, no peace,” they were not quoting the Hebrew prophets or the Torah; they were echoing their African-American neighbors in the borough, who abhor what they perceive as disrespect from the police.
These young Orthodox Jews have learned how a beleaguered and threatened minority in this city can respond when it wants to rein in the police or the powerful. This Passover season, as the Jewish people celebrate their liberation from slavery, these youngsters wanted to express their liberation from what they saw as another too-powerful arm of tyranny — even if the problem was nothing more than a misunderstanding, rather than a return to the bondage of Egypt.
Their rabbis and elders must surely be concerned about this turn of events. More threatening than the incident with the police is the possibility that their children, the products of so much concern and education — the future of their community — may have become too much like the other New York, the one outside the enclave.