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From the New York Post... November 24, 2006 -- A spike in shootings and murders has led NYPD brass to authorize an anti-violence blitz in 11 high-crime precincts, police sources told The Post. Officers in anti-crime units - including narcotics cops, gang officers, and warrant enforcers, who track criminals wanted by the courts - are swarming the streets in greater-than-usual numbers on Friday and Saturday nights. The anti-crime blitz began last weekend and is to continue at least through Dec. 31. "They're really concerned about the shootings and murders going up," a police supervisor told The Post. "They're hoping by putting more cops out on weekends in these high-crime neighborhoods that the shootings will go down, and so will the murders." Overall crime is down 4.8 percent for 2006 through last Sunday, police data shows. But in the 28 days preceding last Sunday, the number of shootings and murders skyrocketed. Some 49 homicides were reported from Oct. 22 to Sunday, up from 35 in the same period last year - a 40 percent surge. And 111 shootings were counted over the same four weeks, up from 89 in the same period in 2005 - an increase of 25 percent. Battling the additional crime means overtime work for the various anti-crime units in the 46th and 48th precincts in The Bronx, the 25th, 32nd and 33rd precincts in Manhattan, and the 67th, 71st, 73rd, 75th, 77th and 79th precincts in Brooklyn, police sources said. Already, the blitz is having an impact, the city's data shows. In Brooklyn's northern precincts, the number of felonious assaults was down the week of Nov. 13 through 19, which includes the start of the overtime push. Cops counted 49 felony assaults in the precincts that week - down 27 percent from the 67 assaults in the same period last year. Cops were worried about the number of murders in the city even before the startling homicide hike of the last few weeks. For the year through last Sunday, cops counted 512 murders in the five boroughs, up from 476 in the same period of 2005 - an increase of 7.5 percent. An unusual number of those killings are reclassifications by the city medical examiner - cases in which someone hurt in a crime years ago died this year of their injuries, police said. Some of the reclassified homicides are crimes that happened over 30 years ago - including cases where people's lives were shortened by bullets that left them paralyzed in wheelchairs. But even when the reclassifications are ignored, the 2006 murder count is still outpacing last year's by about 3 percent.[/b]
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It certainly is quieter after dark on Kingston Avenue lately. There was a lot of police activity in October especially, a lot of busts.
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How bout welcome NY'S Finest for a title to your thread? Crown Heights residents welcomes police presence in response to a spike in crime in the area. Making the Holiday season safe for all its members and visitors!!!
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Isn't it ironic with all the hype about nyc's crime rates going down to very low levels. Or are they just refering to manhattan's crime rate? It's as if the outer boroughs don't exist in the general scheme of things."Tommorow's another god damn day"
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X-brooklynite » Isn't it ironic with all the hype about nyc's crime rates going down to very low levels. Or are they just referring to Manhattan's crime rate? It's as if the outer boroughs don't exist in the general scheme of things.
I think a lot of the hype is to move real estate. It IS safer OVERALL, as I grew up in Brooklyn, but many areas are still quite dangerous. Forums like this are good for getting a more realistic picture of things. -
The crime is down only because the reports somehow just go away. Sometimes complaintants are convinced not to make a report and other times the NYPD (officer taking report, supervisor, crime analysis unit) downgrades the crime. Don't believe everything you see.And that's the way it is.
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Ultimately check with your local Community Board, not only for the "hopefully" accurate monthly crime reports, but if you show up to a monthly meeting, you can ask Board members during the "public forum" what the real poop is and where the CB stands on any increase or decrease in crime. CB is your true (or at least more accurate) source of info...especially if you feel the Pct. may be skewing the numbers. The other issues is, NYPD reports are only as accurate to those who actually call the cops/911 and actually make complaints. A "safe" area may only be such because there are no complaints filed. Food for thought.A word or two from the highest point in Brooklyn--Greenwood Hts.
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Our artists studio building on Bergen, as well as the construction lot next door, was burglerized last year, and the cops "lost" the report. So it wasn't counted. Wonder how often that happens? The whole thing was a joke to them, and we got nothing but the runaround from the cops. I have very little faith in published crime stats, they're DEFINITELY under-reported and wrong, and it's not the publics fault.
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sje » Our artists studio building on Bergen, as well as the construction lot next door, was burglerized last year, and the cops "lost" the report. So it wasn't counted. Wonder how often that happens? The whole thing was a joke to them, and we got nothing but the runaround from the cops. I have very little faith in published crime stats, they're DEFINITELY under-reported and wrong, and it's not the publics fault.
The question to me is: are they being consistently under-reported? If they've always been under-reported, then the statistics showing a decrease in crime are realistic. The crime statisics just don't reflect the actual levels of crime, but they never did, so..... -
I know what you're saying, Greg, but I doubt the under-reporting is that scientific.
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Under reporting has been pushed to a new level. Precinct commanders take extreme heat at compstat meetings from Chiefs and Commisioners when there is an increase in crime or even if there is not a decrease in crime. Grown men who have dedicated their life to this city are humilated in front of their peers and subordinates. It's amazing what comes out of the mouths of the chiefs at those meetings. We all know the expression "shit rolls down hill." After a bad compstat meeting the CO goes back to his command and tears into his Lts. who tear into the Sgts who ultimately tear into their cops. Cops are denied days off. Cops are denied from using comp. time to leave early. Cops are ordered in for overtime every week for full tours of OT. It's not fun. So what happens? Very simple answer in today's logic of "do more with less." Under report crime. Convince a complainant that a report for petit larceny is just as good as a report for burglary in terms of an insurance claim.And that's the way it is.
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Let's just hope what happened in Queens this weekend doesn't happen in Crown or Prospect Heights. The racial tension is already thick, as this board again and again proves and if the cops are going to be hardcore infiltrating here, things will become even more tense.The best of men aren't at their "best" at all times.
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Fortunately for CH/PH there aren't any strip clubs that are being used as fronts for prostitution and drug dealer like the Kalua in Queens. That club has nothing but a bad history. It is a known drug location and has been closed by the city because of it's unlawful activity in the past. I'll wait to pass judgement on the shooting until more facts are released. There are too many unanswered questions as of now.And that's the way it is.
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ParadeRest » Fortunately for CH/PH there aren't any strip clubs that are being used as fronts for prostitution and drug dealer like the Kalua in Queens. That club has nothing but a bad history. It is a known drug location and has been closed by the city because of it's unlawful activity in the past. I'll wait to pass judgement on the shooting until more facts are released. There are too many unanswered questions as of now.
That's funny ParadeRest, you're taking your time before jumping to conclusions. Nice job with the restraint this time around.The best of men aren't at their "best" at all times. -
As if I jumped to conclusions before?And that's the way it is.
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I don't see how more cops fix the problem.. Maybe the symptoms, but not the infection..
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ParadeRest » As if I jumped to conclusions before?
I think he's talking about the Indigo Blu shooting. -
I jumped to no conclusions. I merely stated facts. There is a big difference between the two.And that's the way it is.
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ParadeRest » I jumped to no conclusions. I merely stated facts. There is a big difference between the two.
I went back and looked at that thread again, and that's absolutely true. I think I must have confused your post with the NY Post story that got linked afterward. I'm sorry for my mistake.
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