88th Precinct Crime Statistics: Falling Crime And One Murder From February 16-22

Good news: the third week of February saw a dramatic drop in grand larcenies since last week (from 17 to 5) and ticks downward for felony assaults (2 to 1), burglaries (2 to 1) and auto thefts (3 to 0).

However, robberies remained at 2 reports, and a murder occurred on February 19 — 20-year-old Kevin Colon, who was unarmed, was shot multiple times while in his family’s apartment building at the Whitman Houses, and he made it up to his mother’s door before being rushed to Brooklyn Hospital, where he died — for which the police are still searching for the shooter and a motive.

Transit crimes went up (from 0 to 1), housing crimes did, too (2 to 3), and so did petit larcenies (7 to 10). But misdemeanor assaults fell (8 to 6) and misdemeanor sex crimes reported fell from 1 to none.

For more on recent news at the 88th Precinct, see our recap of the February 88th Precinct Community Council meeting.

CompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 88th Precinct reports every week. The 88th Precinct is the police command that oversees Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.