Why won't Muldoon move?
He knows the neighborhood is horrible. Why would he subject his wife and kids to it?
shareThat is just it, he's a neighborhood guy who grew up there all his life. Something i suppose you wouldn't understand.
sharePlus there's the possibility that suddenly being able to afford a nice suburban house on a patrol officer's salary would spike unwanted attention from both Internal Affairs and the IRS. One ep of CSI had Brass, who'd been a Newark vice cop himself, saying that cops on the take wind up buying stuff that's more than they could normally afford without being too obvious about it.
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Problem with what you said is that it's the 1960's when Internal Affairs and much less the IRS did not really go after corrupt cops. Plus his father is putting the down payment and the rest will be mortgaged. And he's not the only cop on the show who lives in Queens in a suburban house. The italian cop who is investigating Mr. O's murder stated he lives in Queens for the last 15 years.... Also he isn't a patrol officer. He one step up from that... just under detective i would say. They get paid more. Excluding the money he takes from the underworld, he can afford a house in Queens just like his father did.
shareThe Italian cop is a detective, but Muldoon's still at the official NYPD rank of patrolman despite being in plainclothes. Still, I suspect Muldoon's just being supremely cautious, especially when Lieutenant King's nephew Lonnie was saying he'd put half of his (presumably ill-gotten) cash into an account in his mom's name so it couldn't be traced to him.
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They all hide their ill gotten money that is a given... But that does not mean he cannot afford a house in Queens on his regular salary considering he does not seem to be in financial problems such as debts etc.. He just doesn't want to move from his childhood home.... he's what they call a neighborhood guy through and through.
shareThe other cop Muldoon meets at times about cases, told him he made the move to the suburbs quite awhile back. He is always telling Muldoon he and his bosses aren't really interested in "skells" killing themselves in Hell's Kitchen unless it impacts his turf.
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Not sure where you are getting at in your last sentence? What does that have to do with Muldoon moving to Queens or not?
shareI tossed that in to help identify who I was talking about. I don't remember the character's name nor probably do other watchers. But they will remember that these two always met for lunch or drinks and that the other cop told Muldoon moving to the suburbs was for the best for his family.
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Ok - so you grow up in a decent neighborhood but it morphs into a *beep* hole - because you have good memories you keep your wife and kids in the *beep* hole? That is ignorant.
A farm where generations of your relatives have toiled to create something out of nothing is one thing - a random apartment on a block in a place you're familiar with but is now dangerous is something else.
Obviously you do not know NYC and Hell's Kitchen... It was never a decent neighborhood until after the 1980's and they changed the name, raised rents, built condo's etc... Ignorance is bliss.
Again, New Yorkers, especially from the city are all about the neighborhood and staying in it. Especially in those times. It's not about decent or chithole place... something you don't seem to understand.
I don't anything about Hell's Kitchen except what has been said about it. I do know that in crappy places like Appalachia and urban jungles young people for generations have volunteered for the military to get as far away as they can and to learn a trade.
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Some still go back to the hood regardless. As for learning a trade in the military. Some do but i also see alot that waste their time in the military and learn nothing because they didn't think to do so... But as for "Hell's Kitchen", it was called that for a reason and it's not because it was Heaven lol
shareI remember a documentary about one of the cities in New Jersey (I think it was Jersey City). They interviewed a newspaper woman about the horrific corruption. She said some people got off the boat from Europe and just squatted there never going any place generation after generation. She included her own family and said she had done newspaper stories on some relatives going to prison for committing crimes.
A lot of these people preferred to live in their own filth rather than making an effort in life by learning anything or moving. This went way back before African Americans had any political control.
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Yes, but that is different. Muldoon is not leaving because he can't afford it but because it's the "neighborhood". It's difficult to explain unless your from NYC imo...
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