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Kate 15:08 on 2019-06-18 Permalink Reply  

• david100 01:05 on 2019-06-19 Permalink

  You know, I’d love to read a longform article that explains all the arsons over the past half dozen years – who owns the numbered companies that own the buildings, the mafia connections of the individual shops targeted, all those Haitian gangsters and what their plan is, and generally what the sides are. I’m pretty sure you’d need just one or two guys willing to talk, and from there a bunch of time poring over the various records and police moves. Or has someone already done that?

• Ephraim 02:49 on 2019-06-19 Permalink

  This is the SPVM…. I think you know the answer to that question. I would be surprised if they actually did their job.

• Kate 11:16 on 2019-06-19 Permalink

  david100, there are a handful of journalists whose beat this is, but when big incidents occur, like a killing or a major arson, you read them and realize that a lot of their surmises are based on old information or received ideas. Whether that means the cops do know (and aren’t telling the scribes) or don’t know, can be hard to determine. No guy on the gang side will live long if his confrères know or suspect he’s been spilling the beans, whether to a cop or to a journalist.

  Yes, someone could do a study of the arsons, I agree. But there may not be a bigger picture, it may be all piking little games of protection money.