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So please tell me about the Target shopping center on East 117th Street. How is the crime? Is it safe? I ask because a friend of mine is looking at the Mount Sinai kidney dialysis clinic in that shopping center to go to there a couple of times a week. That is Mount Sinai's only location for kidney dialysis on an outpatient basis. I find it quite odd that they located it there, and not on their main hospital campus on 96th Street, or in a more central location in Manhattan with better public transportation.
The neighborhood is East Harlem and safety varies block by block. The shopping center itself I would think is fine, but the issue is organized theft. It is happening across various Target locations, even in safe neighborhoods, but apparently this particular location was especially hit hard.
Target supported BLM. Their constituents paid them back.
Stereotypes are rooted in reality. And Black people continue to wonder why security guards follow them around stores ( often even other Black security guards/employees).
Whomever keeps repeating the myth that theft losses are insured....they're not.
Additionally, assaults on employees and customers do cost the stores money, maybe more than the thefts.
I've seen this conversation in various forums and the problem is that many just don't want to admit that changes to prosecution and policing has come with some big negatives so then we hear excuses. The sad part is that the most impacted are the poorest folks.
Failures by leadership to condemn and lack of real policies to address crime. The end result will be that poor folks have to pay high prices to buy from local bodegas that will thrive again. Big box stores will retreat from poor areas.
Stereotypes are rooted in reality. And Black people continue to wonder why security guards follow them around stores (often even other Black security guards/employees).
Why you are you assuming that it is Black people in a neighborhood that is majority Hispanic? From what I have seen in the news, residents in the area are saying that it is people that live in the area doing it. That means it could be Hispanics, Blacks or anyone else that lives there. It was never established anywhere that the people stealing from this store are Black.
So please tell me about the Target shopping center on East 117th Street. How is the crime? Is it safe? I ask because a friend of mine is looking at the Mount Sinai kidney dialysis clinic in that shopping center to go to there a couple of times a week. That is Mount Sinai's only location for kidney dialysis on an outpatient basis. I find it quite odd that they located it there, and not on their main hospital campus on 96th Street, or in a more central location in Manhattan with better public transportation.
I can answer that...space constraints, a large population of really sick people who need to be near acute care during treatment and patient attitudes. Believe it or not, some people are either so disrespectful of others, or of keeping their appointments or renewing their insurance that an effort is made to have a place for the respectful patients to be less impacted by the rest.
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