After a sharp spike in crime from the week before, the week of February 22 through 28 appears to have gone back down. Both burglary and grand larceny remained relatively high, and continued to see jumps from the year before. But after seven the week earlier, robberies dropped back down to one.
The overall crime reduction for the year (year-to-date total) slid down to -28.93 percent from 31.72 percent the week before, still representing a significant drop in crime.
CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. As a new feature on Sheepshead Bites, we’ll be summarizing the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct as the reports become available (usually on Monday, one week after the closing date). The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
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Crime reduction overall in the 61st Precinct almost ground to a halt this week. With a whopping 31 crimes, we’re only down 6.06 percent from the same time period in 2009, while last week (not shown) our numbers were down 36.84 percent.
Most notably, there was a sharp increase in robberies, up 250 percent from the same week last year, and more than twice the amount from last week (3). We also more than doubled the amount of grand larcenies from last week, up to 11 from 5, and a 22.2 percent jump from this time period in 2009.
The area only had 12 crimes included in last week’s report. All told, this week’s spike has slowed down the “Year to Date” reduction of crime by less than 5 percent, from a 36.08 percent reduction from 2009’s numbers to 31.72 percent – meaning we’re still on track for an overall reduction in crime from last year.
CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. As a new feature on Sheepshead Bites, we’ll be summarizing the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct as the reports become available (usually on Monday, one week after the closing date). The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
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Overall, crime for the week before Valentine’s Day dropped more than 36 percent compared to the same time frame in 2009. Most significantly, the number of break-ins constituting burglary dropped 80 percent, with only one this week as compared to five in 2009. The only crime to increase this week over last year’s numbers was Grand Larceny Auto (G.L.A.), which doubled from one to two. Still, we’re down in total car thefts for the year (21) from 2009 (28).
G.L.A. shows the slowest reduction of incidents year over year, so make sure to keep your car safe. Park on well-lighted streets and do not leave valuables in your vehicle.
CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. As a new feature on Sheepshead Bites, we’ll be summarizing the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct as the reports become available (usually on Monday, one week after the closing date). The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
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We all keep hearing about the plummeting crime statistics across the city, and in our area the 61st Precinct was named the lowest crime area in all of New York City (aside from the command responsible for Central Park). But Councilman Lew Fidler is asking aloud what many residents have been mumbling among themselves for years: is the NYPD manipulating the statistics?
“People can misinterpret or misuse statistics all the time,” City Councilmember Lew Fidler told Courier-Life. “It just strikes me that the crime statistics we hear are too good to be true.”
Fidler said the “inordinate pressure” coming from the city’s top brass to make the crime stats “look good” may be causing officers to downgrade crimes or dissuade residents from filing reports altogether. He blamed the over-emphasis on statistics in determining precinct’s needs.
Have you ever thought the police manipulated a report of a crime you were a victim of? Keep reading.
The Manhattan Beach Community Group shot off a warning to members about an emerging crime wave. According to police reports in the past week at least three vehicles were broken into and the valuables stolen. The items taken included a GPS unit, a laptop, and cash. While police speculate the perpetrator could be someone with a drug problem, it could be anyone.
Listen up residents! It’s time to be aware. Don’t leave valuables in your car. Put it out of sight or bring it home with you. Keep an eye out and pay attention to your surroundings, but remember you’re not Batman! If you see something or someone doing something suspicious, dial 911 and wait for help!
Talk about a bad Halloween trick. Around 5:30 on All Hallow’s Eve, a man in his mid- to late-twenties stabbed his mother and sister at their home on Avenue Z around East 11th Street. According to an officer at the 61st precinct, the sister and mother are in stable condition – though it’s unknown if they’ve been discharged from the hospital. The son was arrested and is facing charges. The officer was unable to disclose the identity of those involved, or the reason for the attack. As trick-or-treaters probably noticed, police closed off Avenue Z between Coney Island Avenue and East 12th Street for a few hours.
Anyone with additional information about the incident can leave it in the comments below or submit it by e-mail.
We admit: we have no idea what the laws, regulations, standards or whatever are on this topic. But reader Arthur B. wrote in – suspicions all aroused – so we figured it best to pass this on to the larger community, and you can fill us in.
Here’s what Arthur wrote:
I saw a bunch of construction workers stacking and moving open sand bags in the area of 3101-3111 Brighton 2nd. I’m no expert but since when are sandbags open like that? I think they are stealing the sand from our public beach (though I did not see them do that). They quickly took the bags out of my field of vision (I think into the basement of 3101). I also have a pic of the truck I think they were using which has sand all over it. When I questioned the workers they were evasive and refused to answer me in English!
Does anyone know if this is illegal? Ought it to be reported? First ten people with information leading to an arrest get an official Sheepshead Bites trout flavored Slushie!
(Ed. — No they don’t… and that’s disgusting.)
We saw this Waldbaum’s shopping cart, under lock and key, behind the fence of the Ocean Avenue Belt Parkway bridge.
At first we felt sorry for it, thinking “such a sad and lonely existence locked up behind that gate in solitary confinement” — until we remembered a news item which said that some thieves used a shopping cart to carry their loot from a victim’s house on East 18 Street and Avenue U.
Suddenly, our mood changed. If this is the very same shopping cart, then to it we say, “if you can’t do the time, then don’t do the crime”. On the next parole hearing, let’s make sure this one never gets out.
[There is an ironic twist to this whole story. Some time after we wrote this post, we saw that the lock and chain are not wrapped around the gate. The only thing holding this cart back from freedom is a cellphone wire haphazardly twisted around the gate door. Probably, when the cart has finishing reading the newspaper -- it'll make a roll for it.]
After seeing last night’s America’s Most Wanted broadcast on FOX TV (local channel 5 for us antenna-TV people), I checked the website for the details of the murders that happened in Brighton Beach years ago on November 12, 1995. The site is slightly hard to navigate, but it will be worth our efforts if it helps capture a fugitive and put the one who was nabbed in jail.
Fakhat Askarov, from the Ukraine, and his girlfriend Larisa Jakovleva, from Latvia, were both killed in Askarov’s new apartment in Little Odessa, Brooklyn. Both victims’ bodies were cut up, placed into luggage, then thrown into local waters and New Jersey woods. Some of the body parts came up on shore at the Gerritsen Beach area’s Plumb Beach.
Read more about these murders after the jump.
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