There something seriously wrong in this City when 12 year olds, with 8 year old accomplices rob convenience stores at gun point.
An armed robber, who looked to be about 12 years old, and his accomplice, who could have been younger, held up a North Buffalo convenience store Saturday, according to a report filed with Buffalo police.
The young bandits targeted the A-Plus mini-mart, 1301 Hertel Ave. near Colvin Avenue, between 1:30 and 2 p. m., according to police and a store employee.
The two waited for everyone to leave the store and then the older boy displayed a small silver handgun, police said.
“Give me the money,” the boy told the employee. “You have 10 [expletive] seconds to open the drawer.”The store employee described the older suspect as a thin, black male, 5 feet, 4 inches tall, and wearing black jeans and a black hoodie pulled over his head, according to the report.
The second suspect was described as a light-skinned Hispanic boy, about 4 feet, 10 inches tall, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and a black vest with longer curly hair sticking out from beneath his baseball hat. He looked to be about 8 or 10 years old, the employee told police.
Buffalo News April 11, 2010
Good old Mayor Brown is still insisting that crime is down, even though everyone, including the FBI knows otherwise.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports for Buffalo
Violent crime up 7%.
One of every 146 Buffalo residents was a victim of violent crime last year
2008 – 1722
2009 – 1845
Murder up 28%.
2008 – 18
2009 – 23
Aggravated assault up 14%.
2008 – 896
2009 – 1019
Brown is not placing any priority on crime prevention. Police Chief Gibson’s job has been vacant for months and Brown has yet to begin a search for a replacement. (http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2010/01/too-many-streets-are-not-safe.html)
Police hiring doesn’t even keep up with police going out on disability.
In a recent two-week pay period, 105 of the department’s 789 officers were classified as injured on duty. That’s 13 percent of the force unable to work. Buffalo News
And lets not forget that the police department was so mismanaged that the City under Brown’s administration that Buffalo couldn’t even qualify for Federal funds for community police.
Buffalo loses out on grants for police
City ineligible to apply because of vacancies
Buffalo News, July 29, 2009
Buffalo never applied for a federal stimulus grant program that ended up bringing $5.8 million and 30 new police officers to Rochester, city officials said Tuesday after the Obama administration announced the grants.
Buffalo couldn’t apply because it had existing police vacancies that remained unfilled because of a lack of minority candidates — and cities that have existing vacancies were not allowed to apply, said Janet Penska, the city’s commissioner of administration and finance.
But that reasoning did not go down well with the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, which said the city could have been eligible for the federal aid — and more officers — if it had worked harder to fill its existing vacancies.