By Rich Mancuso
This columnist, native and resident of the Bronx had to pitch the editor about a first hand perspective of living in the Bronx and the past few days again have come to a point that needs attention. The Bronx is not the same and many times living in fear.
The past few days of incidents, one nearby in the Pelham Bay community, news camera trucks and media paying attention to what has gone wrong and not what is right. We are loving in Fear.
Mayflower Avenue, a distraught and disturbed adult male is accosted in his home after a call regarding a disturbance. In the process, police use a taser and a neighborhood resident is rushed, sent to the hospital now deceased.
A neighborhood, once so proud and safe is the center of attention to another senseless form of hostility. A neighborhood and borough again is in the headlines and negativity of the Bronx sees the plot begin to develop for the worse and not the better.
The 45th Precinct, once known as “The Vacation Patrol” because of a low crime rate in the area, has now become the overtime unit. No more time for pleasure and for residents always on guard with peddlers on streets and merchants on guard for the unexpected.
it is watch every move when leaving your home and having a sense for the unexpected here and in the borough. This columnist was the victim of a mugging earlier this year at nearby Waters Place en route to a Hutchinson Metro Park medical facility.
The Bronx Psychiatric Center outpatients were not apprehended and thankfully, I was not harmed. But there could be another victim and there have been more as security in that area is hard to find.
So always now, the word is be on guard there and in the borough. Perhaps this is an entire society issue and in the Bronx, it certainly is.
The sounds of sirens passing by the neighborhood have overcome the joy of walking the streets day and night ,and it is obvious there is an issue of not being safe and a feeling of being in a war zone.
The dead cop killer — identified as Manuel Rosales, a 35-year-old from Brentwood, L.I., with a long rap sheet — was armed when the two officers from the 43rd Precinct encountered.
And then some more. As this loyal Bronx columnist was penning another sports piece about the Cubs victory celebration in Chicago, you hear the sirens again and the news flash again.
A suspect was killed at the scene by police and a NYPD sergeant died from wounds from a shootout in the 43rd Precinct covering the Van Nest section of the borough. NYPD Sergeant Paul Tuozzolo was fatally shot by Manuel Rosales.
You wonder, when and where will be the next incident in a borough, once known for the good, that has been a part of New York City history.
Yes, it is not safe and you wonder: What happened to the good old days in the Bronx?
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