Nine police precincts are showing an alarming spike in crime — and could lead the way to the first citywide increase in decades, The Post has learned.
Overall crime is down a barely noticeable 0.1 percent so far this year compared to the same period last year, and police brass are fighting tooth and nail to keep the numbers from climbing.
The NYPD has already removed Deputy Inspector José Navarro as commander of the 34th Precinct, in Washington Heights, where crime shot up during his 15 months in charge.
The 90th Precinct, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is also struggling with increases in murder, abductions, assault, grand larceny and car theft, according to NYPD CompStat data.
Other precincts struggling with rising crime include: the 42nd, in Tremont, The Bronx; the 66th, in Borough Park, the neighborhood in which young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted by Levi Aron, Brooklyn; the 61st, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; the 76th, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn; the 77th, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; the 100th in Rockaway, Queens, and the 113th in St. Albans, Queens.
NYPD Department Chief Joseph Esposito and Deputy Commissioner Patrick Timlin have launched a get-tough policy with precinct commanders to demand they get crime under control.
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not surprised as being close to a precinct it could be noted that some police just hang out in pairs, in their cars and do such as eat, talk on their cell phones
try walking into a precinct and observe attitude
when i pass the precinct when shifts change and i look how they dress and speak as civil people my comment is “this is what is supposed to protect us”….yes, we rely on Hashem and no “im Hashem lo ishmar ihr shav shakad shomer”
it is known that many precincts bottom denominator is corruption and “what is in it for me”
David Hamelech gave the formula for Jews to keep safe…
“Romemot E-l b’gronam, v’cherev pifiyot b’yadam”.