Were the big cities that damn crazy in the 80's?
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RatherUnique
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I remember talkin' to this old head. And he said in early 80's cats would shoot at police cars, dip down alleys and behind buildings, and get away with it.
Edit: In South Bronx.
Drug game was booming and police were lost to how vast and complex the system was
No snitching went without saying
Everyone didn't have cameras phones to snitch so azz whoopings and arm robberies were easy money.
My dad told me him and his brothers did a driveby downtown on some CACs for calling my aunts n:ggers.
No snitching went without saying
Everyone didn't have cameras phones to snitch so azz whoopings and arm robberies were easy money.
My dad told me him and his brothers did a driveby downtown on some CACs for calling my aunts n:ggers.
606onit
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Cabrini was crazy.
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Even secondary cities like Dallas were crazy in the late 80s/early 90s. So much crack. Guns everywhere. I remember every older person I knew outside of my parents were either selling or using. I remember there being a lot of crackhouses. You just don't see it out in the open as much like that anymore.
TheArchitect
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From personal experience, NYC and L.A. were fukking warzones...
They was a project in ATL called Little Vietnam. The mayor couldn't go there without a deep ass presidential like escort.
Murder rates in most cities have dropped by more than two thirds. In NY alone, the total number of murders was 2000+ in 1993. Compare that to 500 last year.
It was a crazy time.
Murder rates in most cities have dropped by more than two thirds. In NY alone, the total number of murders was 2000+ in 1993. Compare that to 500 last year.
It was a crazy time.
i grew up on the west side of harlem. broadway was 
back in the day. i used to live on the 1st floor with the window facing the street and i saw so much shyt a little kid shouldnt see.
i saw 2 dudes fighting and 1 pulled out a knife and stabbed the other over and over and over and over again in his torso and arms and shoulders.
next day i saw the dude that got stabbed still walking around with mad bandages.
one time me and my fam came back from DR and couldnt get into our building for a couple of hours while police pulled out a headless body from our lobby
the first porno i ever seen was a live fukkfest between 2 dope fiends in the alley behind my building
i musta been like 6 or 7.
my next door neighbor's door was busted open by DEA. he was a nice little old dentist who let the dudes on my block use his home office as a stash house.
all of this happened before i even turned 10.
the stories go on and on. harlem was a warzone brehs.
back in the day. i used to live on the 1st floor with the window facing the street and i saw so much shyt a little kid shouldnt see.i saw 2 dudes fighting and 1 pulled out a knife and stabbed the other over and over and over and over again in his torso and arms and shoulders.
next day i saw the dude that got stabbed still walking around with mad bandages.
one time me and my fam came back from DR and couldnt get into our building for a couple of hours while police pulled out a headless body from our lobby
the first porno i ever seen was a live fukkfest between 2 dope fiends in the alley behind my building
i musta been like 6 or 7.my next door neighbor's door was busted open by DEA. he was a nice little old dentist who let the dudes on my block use his home office as a stash house.
all of this happened before i even turned 10.
the stories go on and on. harlem was a warzone brehs.
Wasn't quite old enough to process my surroundings in the 80's... but DC in the early 90's was just 
Spent a portion of my childhood in a part of the city called "simple city"... ain't gonna get to graphic on the alleged violence that may have occured there. But lets just say if you ever got hit up out there, you best have a ride to get to the hospital, because you were pretty much on your own. As a rule, ambulances refused come thru without a multi-car police escort. And that could sometimes take over an hour after a call was placed. And police couldn't park or post up anywhere in or around the neighborhood without something happening to their car. Hectic and nightmarish point of time to be living in. And the shyt seemed so normal to me back then... but looking back on it is just like
Thankfully, years later, cacs came thru and crushed buildings and cleaned MOST of the city up (simple city is still a no-go zone) now you can bring in PAWGS from the surrounding suburbs to the city and when you tell em "i live in DC" they don't hit you with the
when you attempt to get em to come to your domicile. 
Spent a portion of my childhood in a part of the city called "simple city"... ain't gonna get to graphic on the alleged violence that may have occured there. But lets just say if you ever got hit up out there, you best have a ride to get to the hospital, because you were pretty much on your own. As a rule, ambulances refused come thru without a multi-car police escort. And that could sometimes take over an hour after a call was placed. And police couldn't park or post up anywhere in or around the neighborhood without something happening to their car. Hectic and nightmarish point of time to be living in. And the shyt seemed so normal to me back then... but looking back on it is just like
Thankfully, years later, cacs came thru and crushed buildings and cleaned MOST of the city up (simple city is still a no-go zone) now you can bring in PAWGS from the surrounding suburbs to the city and when you tell em "i live in DC" they don't hit you with the
when you attempt to get em to come to your domicile. 
I remember talkin' to this old head. And he said in early 80's cats would shoot at police cars, dip down alleys and behind buildings, and get away with it.
Edit: In South Bronx.
circa 2014 ...... stickup boyz call for backup
Posted on Wed, May. 07, 2014
Close call: Undercover Miami-Dade robbery cops pursuing SUV get shot at from another car
By Charles Rabin
Two Miami-Dade officers working undercover in the county’s north end abandoned their chase of an SUV when a man leaning out the passenger window of the car behind began shooting.
The cops managed to elude the silver Infiniti chasing them, and the Cadillac SUV the police were chasing got away. But none of the officers were injured in Monday night’s attack.
“As soon as the truck took off they heard several gunshots,” said Miami-Dade police Detective Robin Pinkard. “They didn’t know they were being shot until the driver looked in the rear-view window.”
Pinkard said the two officers are members of the county’s Robbery Intervention Unit, and were on a detail trying to solve a pair of prior shootings in the area.
She said the officers were in an unmarked vehicle and made a U-turn to get behind the Cadillac at Northwest 127th Street and 17th Avenue, after noticing the Cadillac had tinted front windows, which is illegal.
After the officers turned on their blue and red lights, an indication to the Cadillac that it should pull over, Pinkard said the driver took off. Officers chased the Cadillac for about a block — just a matter of seconds, Pinkard said — before the officers heard gunshots and realized they were targets.
“They stopped chasing the truck and tried to elude,” she said.
No one was injured, though a bullet hit a home in the 12700 block of East Randall Park Drive.
On Tuesday, police released a short audio of the officers contacting dispatch after they discovered they had been targeted. On the tape, an officer can be heard saying, “They’re shooting out the window at officers, northbound on 27th.”
Then a dispatcher responds, “all vehicles,” before the audio cuts off. The call was made at 6:07 p.m.
Police wouldn’t release other details or say if they found the Cadillac or the people inside the car. On Wednesday morning, during a gun buyback drive near where Monday’s incident took place, police asked for any witnesses or anyone who might have knowledge of the incident to come forward.
The county’s north end has become a hotspot for shootings the past year, a combination of gangs fighting for turf and other criminal activity.
“We’re asking people to come forward if they know anything,” Pinkard said.
