No other details yet - the SPD just released a tweet on it

"Man shot in leg, officers currently investigating."

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No other details yet - the SPD just released a tweet on it

"Man shot in leg, officers currently investigating."

More shooting during the day time hours......well DV, ONCE AGAIN.....please explain to us how Schenectady is improving????????   How do you arrive at the the conclusion that increase in crime improves the city?

Yep. DV claims Schenectady is MUCH IMPROVED (but he isn't moving to the city very quickly---how come, DV?)


Yep, yet ANOTHER SHOOTING during a home break in .............. IN BROAD DAYLIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!    A time of day in a residential neighborhood when children easily could be walking home from school.

Oh yeah, DV claims that he would feel safe in Schenectady.  Gee, DV, HOW COME YOU DON'T MOVE HERE?:???????????    HUH??????????????

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SCHENECTADY -- A city man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during a struggle with two assailants who attempted to force their way into his apartment Thursday afternoon, according Sgt. Luciano Savoia, a city police spokesman.

The 32-year-old victim was transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the altercation around 3 p.m. on Van Vranken Avenue, Savoia said. He said the suspects, both of whom were wearing dark-colored clothing, were fled on foot. Police are asking anyone with information on the incident to call them at 788-6566.

I always find it shameful that after every incident in Schenectady, the police ask for anyone with information to call the department - we pay your salaries, now you want us to do your job?

Come on...these guys fled on foot?!? During the day..and it's cold. I just don't understand how crime upon crime happens in Schenectady and the criminals get away...most of the time.

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I always find it shameful that after every incident in Schenectady, the police ask for anyone with information to call the department - we pay your salaries, now you want us to do your job?

Come on...these guys fled on foot?!? During the day..and it's cold. I just don't understand how crime upon crime happens in Schenectady and the criminals get away...most of the time.

I guess the criminals figure the cold weather is a better time to try.  Think about it, most of the problems we've seen when the weather gets warm, so do we let our guard down when it's cold?

But no need to fail understand anymore.  Just realize that the tax dollars are not being spent in the neighborhoods where people live.  Tax dollars are going to exempt the millionaires from paying their taxes on their downtown buildings.  

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I always find it shameful that after every incident in Schenectady, the police ask for anyone with information to call the department - we pay your salaries, now you want us to do your job?

Come on...these guys fled on foot?!? During the day..and it's cold. I just don't understand how crime upon crime happens in Schenectady and the criminals get away...most of the time.

Part of the police doing their job .. is to ask any one who may have any helpful information to share it
with them.   The fact is that a lot of crimes remain unsolved because witnesses don't step forward.

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Part of the police doing their job .. is to ask any one who may have any helpful information to share it
with them.   The fact is that a lot of crimes remain unsolved because witnesses don't step forward.

Witnesses won't step forward because they are afraid.  The witnesses don't know the criminals from Adam.    In 99% of the crimes, the witnesses have no connection to the criminals.  But this city has become almost as bad as the wild wild west.  The city has gangs, gangs don't care who they hurt or kill.  Crime used to occur in the cover of darkness, breakins by going behind the bushes to quietly enter a house, in a very small area of the city.

But the gangs know full well that the city is sorely understaffed for police, the gangs know full well that the city cannot pay for more public safety.  So the gangs and other criminals are coming out with no fear during the day time hours.  

Until the tax dollars are used in the neighborhoods instead of giving 100% tax exemptions to the wealthy downtown business owners, the financially struggling people, law abiding people, innocent children, are at risk of being victims in a crime.  Crime is at record high levels.  The vacancy rate of houses is record high - one quarter of the houses hare vacant - quickly becoming a ghost town.   People are trying desprately to leave the city but those who own homes and put them up for sale, well they just cannot sell their houses - houses sit on the market for a year - NO OFFERS.  Is THAT what YOU  call a reanaissance, DV?   This is the return on the investment in downtown?   No, not an "investment" in downtown, but a robbing of the hardworking, financially struggling people in the city in order to give out MILLIONS to millioniares.

DV, explain this.  Even with the VERY VERY GENEROUS handouts from the federal goverment and record low mortgage rates, can you explain WHY houses in Schenectady city go a whole year WITH NO OFFERS?    Even in the nicer section, e.g., where that Eric Ely lived, he had a nice house and STILL NO ONE WANTED TO BUY IT!!!!!  

There's only one good thing about this issue.  The fact that we are not having these issues (yet) in Rotterdam.  The police force needs to do something to start to bring those accountable to justice and start cleaning up the streets of Schenectady.  The people of the eastern part of town are already feeling the horrors of living close enough with all the break-ins of cars that were occurring last summer.  It seems that NO crimes get solved in Schenectady... unless it's a cop who was guilty of the crime.  We hear lots of those stories.  Maybe it's time for the cops and those in the IA division to trade badges, let IA out on the street to solve some crimes and leave the current cops to push papers.  I don't know if that's a good solution, but they need to do SOMETHING SOON!

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SCHENECTADY
Intruders shoot man in city apartment
BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter

    A city man was shot in the leg Thursday afternoon after two men attempted to force their way into his apartment, police said.
    Police were called to 1516 Van Vranken Ave. shortly before 3 p.m. for a report of a man shot.
    They arrived to find the man in his second-floor apartment with a gunshot wound to his right leg, police spokesman Sgt. Luciano Savoia said.
    The 32-year-old victim was alert and talking when police arrived. He told police the two men attempted to force their way in, a shot went off and he was hit, Savoia said.
    Paramedics wheeled him out on a stretcher; he appeared awake and alert, with an oxygen mask on. He was taken to Albany Medical Center for treatment.
    Police did not release his name.
    It was unclear what the assailants were after, Savoia said. The victim indicated he didn’t know the men. Police were holding the apartment and were expected to get a search warrant, he said.
    Police only had a vague description of the assailants early Thursday afternoon. They were dressed in dark clothing; one was about 6 feet tall. They are believed to have fled down nearby Hattie Street, toward Foster Avenue, Savoia said.
    Police continued to canvass the area late Thursday afternoon. The shooting happened in an apartment between Hattie Street and Nott Street.
    A neighbor said the victim had lived there for about fi ve months. .................>>>>......................>>>>...........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01103&AppName=1

This can't be. The city and county are SUPREMELY GOVERNED by Sue SAVAGE the miracle worker. Put a fork in her. She's done.

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I always find it shameful that after every incident in Schenectady, the police ask for anyone with information to call the department - we pay your salaries, now you want us to do your job?

Come on...these guys fled on foot?!? During the day..and it's cold. I just don't understand how crime upon crime happens in Schenectady and the criminals get away...most of the time.

Reminds me of when I was a kid and through a snowball through a window (by mistake). I ran like hell in the cold/snow, but my father still caught me!  

But then again, my father wasn't a cop.

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