Tag Archive | "Crime"

Neighborhood Crime Watch Groups Go Online: 5 Digital Tools

Friday, March 30, 2012

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Years ago retailers used a “calling tree.” If a suspicious person came into a store, an employee would call to alert other stores in the neighborhood. Today, the Internet is taking this idea to another [...]

French Shootings Put NYPD and Synagogues on Alert

Friday, March 23, 2012

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  On March 19, a lone gunman in southern France murdered three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi outside of the Ozar Hatorah secondary school in Toulouse. On Thursday morning, just three days after the shootings, [...]

Kony 2012: Special Edition Webcast

Monday, March 12, 2012

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The Brooklyn Lens tackles the video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and how it went viral in this week's webcast for March 9, 2012.

[VIDEO] Saving Youth, One Push-Up at a Time

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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Will Crandall is an ex-convict who runs a fitness program for young men and women in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Through his rigorous training, he hopes to reform teenagers and keep them from making the same [...]

Convicted Subway Stabber Awaits Sentence

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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A 24-year-old Maksim Gelman awaits sentence for his final attack in a subway stabbing spree last year. He is already serving 200 years behind bars and is expected to get another 25 years today, when [...]

Eyewitness Testifies in Double Murder Case

Friday, December 9, 2011

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An eyewitness in a double murder trial testified in Kings County Criminal Court Thursday that he saw the defendant, Sean Steer, shoot three times at one of the victims. The eyewitness, Mr. Hunt, said he [...]

In Bed-Stuy, Loss Gives Life To Hope

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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22-year-old Kyle Decoteau was shot and killed in Bed-Stuy in July this year. His death and its aftermath, which saw a wave of anti-crime sentiment ripple through the neighborhood, shows that Bed-Stuy, though safer than in the past, is still plagued by crime; and its residents are fed up with the plague.

Murder in Little Odessa

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Alla Kamenev, 65, was shot in broad daylight on Oct. 20 in Brighton Beach. Police say her ex-husband was the one who did it. And the family isn't talking.

76-Year-Old Coney Island Man Indicted for Ex-Wife’s Murder

Monday, October 31, 2011

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Dimitry Kamenev, 76, has been indicted in connection with the killing of his ex-wife Alla Kamenev, 65. His case was transferred to the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday morning, and the court will proceed with [...]

As Brownsville Grieves Murdered Mother, Police Arraign Three Suspects

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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Three suspects have been arraigned in connection to the shooting of Zurana Horton, a Brownsville mother of 13, murdered on Friday.