NOTE: The best train stop is Broadway and Myrtle Avenue train station on the J & Z line.After exiting the train station walk East on Broadway for one block to the corner of Broadway and Stuyvesant Avenue make a right turn onto Stuyvesant Avenue and two blocks to the location which is Stuyvesant Avenue and Pulaski Street.
In response to a recent beating incident, community leaders met.Community Board’s 8
Police and Public Safety Committee
invites you to attend a
Public Safety Forum for Businesses
on
Monday, April 28, 2008
6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
Location: The Usual
637 Vanderbilt Avenue
(Between Prospect Place and St. Marks Ave.)
We will discuss how the business community, residents, police and the community board can work together to control crime and foster public safety.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information please feel free to contact Community Board 8 at 718-467-5574
or Shalawn Langhorne, Committee Chair and Jesse Hamilton, Committee Co-Chair
Excerpts from Neene's minutes of the 2/19/08 meeting of the Crow Hill Community Association:Deputy Inspector John Cosgrove, commanding officer of the 77th Precinct was our guest speaker. He outlined the Impact Zone which consists of 38 officers patrolling the area between Franklin & Nostrand, from Eastern Parkway to Pacific.Full meeting minutes are posted here.
There are 14 officers assigned to the day shift: 11:30 am-5:30 pm and 24 to the night shift: 5:30 pm-2am. The officers walk in pairs and the location and timing of these patrols is determined by 1 Police Plaza, not the precinct.Crime is down 2% for the year to date though robberies continue to be a problem and are up from last year, there have been 75 robbery related arrests since the beginning of the year. Burglaries and auto theft are down. The western side of the precinct is still seeing persistent muggings which seem to be happening mainly between 5-10 pm.
If you see [narcotics] activity on the street or know of [narcotics] activity in a building, REPORT IT. You can call 911 or 311, request anonymity, (say you do not want to talk to the police or have them come to your door), but report it with as much detail as possible: physical description, location, where the drugs are being stashed, time of day, etc.
You can also send information anonymously in writing to the precinct or email the Mayor or Commissioner Kelly. EVERY ONE of these reports gets investigated. The squeaky wheel will get the most oil. This year to date there have been 326 drug related arrests, up 340% from 15 years ago.
If you observe a crime, report it with as much detail as possible:
- call 911 or 311 anonymously
- send an anonymous letter to the precinct:
Narcotics Division
77th Precinct
127 Utica Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213- email Commissioner Kelly: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mailnypd.html or the Mayor: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
The Crown Heights Coalition is happy to say we feel our letter writing campaign has been a huge success. Thank you to everyone for participating; your voices have been heard!!!
The Coalition commends Commissioner Kelly for responding to the the community by deploying one third of the 1800 graduating rookies to six Brooklyn precincts (including the 77th and the 71st precincts) to combat the increase in crime that our community has been experiencing. We see this as a positive and necessary step towards achieving the level of safety we all want to see in Crown Heights.
The Coalition looks forward to working with our precincts and the new recruits to make our streets safer for everyone. We urge all members of the community to attend their precinct council meetings in January to voice your concerns to your commanding officers.
And please extend a warm welcome to these new officers when you encounter them in the community. Remember, police/community relations is a 2 way street, it is up to each of us to do our part.
77th Precinct Council Meeting:
January 14, 7:30 pm
Marcus Garvey Nursing Home
810 St. Marks Place
