Recently I read an interesting article in the Village Voice (it can be found online here), which tells about the apparently selective protection the Shomrim, Hasidic volunteer neighborhood patrol, afford their constituents. While helping the police keep violent crime down (not a huge problem in a Hasidic neighborhood, I would imagine), they seem to be very reluctant to report child abuse and similar crimes to the police, instead reporting them (if at all) to a rabbi. The article comes very close to accusing the Shomrim of a complicity in Leiby Kletzky's death (they took a long time to notify the police).
The Shmorim is publicly funded (they have received more than $100,000 from New York City for equipment and such), which makes it even more important to demand a reckoning.
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