The Guns of Brooklyn
Brooklyn has the rest of New York City outgunned. Law enforcement data indicates that the borough has a disproportionately large number of the city’s guns. It’s a tough statistic to nail down, says Rory [...]
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Eric Adams on the ‘Abuse’ of Stop-and-Frisk
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Is the New York Police Department misusing its stop-and-frisk-policy? New York State Senator Eric L. Adams, a retired police captain who was elected to the state senate in 2006, thinks so.
Neighborhood Crime Watch Groups Go Online: 5 Digital Tools
Friday, March 30, 2012
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
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, [...]
The Brooklyn Lens Webcast 2/26/2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Brooklyn Lens webcast for the week of February 26, 2012.
81-Year-Old Man Pushed Onto Subway Tracks By iPhone Thief
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in finding two suspects who pushed an 81-year-old man onto the tracks at the Lorimer Street J platform in Brooklyn on Friday, said police. When the first [...]
NYPD Officer Survives After Being Shot in Brooklyn
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A full recovery is expected for a New York City police officer, after doctors performed emergency surgery to remove a bullet from his skull. Officer Kevin Brennan, 29, is still listed in critical condition, but [...]
Muslims in Brooklyn: A Community on The Edge
Monday, January 2, 2012
Ten years after 9/11, the Muslim community in Brooklyn has been forced into the public view again in the wake of recent revelations that the NYPD were conducting secret surveillance programs against them. Our reporter [...]
In Bed-Stuy, Loss Gives Life To Hope
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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.
Unfixed Tickets: A Day at the Traffic Court
Monday, December 5, 2011
Rayan Nahle leans on a wall outside a courtroom at the Traffic Violations Bureau at Atlantic Center Mall, waiting for her hearing. Unlike others in the room who were missing work altogether to settle their [...]
The Brooklyn Lens Webcast
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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