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Search Helicopter — Brooklynian

Search Helicopter

axel foley
axel foley
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
Always good to be woken up at 3:30 AM by a search helicopter complete with spotlight. There was one overhead for a good long while at that hour this morning, a few blocks north of Park Place--if I had to guess I'd say around Bergen and Underhill. Anyone know what was going on? (Unless it was all just a dream.)

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  • jayce
    jayce
    wasnt a dream---

    this is on gothamist news map

    Perp Search | Esu/aviation Requested For Perp Search With Regards To A BURGLARY. Brooklyn, NY | 1/19/2010 3:37 a.m.
  • axel foley
    axel foley
    Ah, thanks.
  • stooplady
    stooplady
    Yeah, brought back 9/11 memories. They were right over our back yards Prospect Place near Vandy, between St. Marks. Very militaristic. There were two of them hovering around for quite a while. Do you have the site for Gothamist entry? Thanks.
  • jayce
    jayce
    http://gothamist.com/map/
  • jayce
    jayce
    looks like sometime after the helicopters all left Namaskar had their ATM outside the store stolen too. Vandy was the wild west last night, it seems
  • stooplady
    stooplady
    What happened to foot police and patrol cars? Someone once told me that we are on the edge of the Precinct and so not patrolled as well.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    StoopLady wrote: What happened to foot police and patrol cars? Someone once told me that we are on the edge of the Precinct and so not patrolled as well.
    http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54892
  • stooplady
    stooplady
    Ah yes, I have lived in the same home in Prospect Place from 1979-84 and again from '91-present. I has become a "better" neighborhood in many ways, but I still don't understand why we don't see cops "on the beat." Just my ramblings in spite of the articles, the gentrification, etc. Thanks.
  • bkchickie
    bkchickie
    StoopLady wrote: Ah yes, I have lived in the same home in Prospect Place from 1979-84 and again from '91-present. I has become a "better" neighborhood in many ways, but I still don't understand why we don't see cops "on the beat." Just my ramblings in spite of the articles, the gentrification, etc. Thanks.
    I often see cops walking on our side of Flatbush Ave.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    StoopLady wrote: Ah yes, I have lived in the same home in Prospect Place from 1979-84 and again from '91-present. I has become a "better" neighborhood in many ways, but I still don't understand why we don't see cops "on the beat." Just my ramblings in spite of the articles, the gentrification, etc. Thanks.
    ...did you read how the numbers of cops have gone down? Beat cops (what I call Prevention or deterrance cops) seem to now be restricted to Operation Impact areas.

    Every place else only gets what I will call "response cops".
  • stooplady
    stooplady
    Sorry, didn't have time to read as I am cleaning, working, etc. I do know this. Instead we are living in a neglect/police state/outcry/ignore/neglect cycle.
    Thanks.
  • trainsmoke deleon
    trainsmoke deleon
    This was seriously intense. Had me and the wife out of bed at 3:30am looking out the window. Two helis flying low kept shining their searchlights all around. Every time it swept passed our window the whole bedroom would light up. Went on for a good long while. Perp search sounds about right. Or Operation Neighborhood Awaken.
  • h-bomb
    h-bomb
    Yeah, that disturbed me too. Earplugs did not solve the problem. I wonder if anyone out there called 311 to report a rotorcraft disturbing the peace.
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