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Image via NYPD.There was no escape for the deli customer. The four men seen in the surveillance images above are wanted by police for allegedly punching the 50-year-old man multiple times in the head and body at Genuine Deli at 700 Fulton Street this past Wednesday, February 3. It
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Images via NYPD.Police have released the above images in an attempt to crack a nearly two month old robbery case that saw a 13-year-old boy get robbed near Atlantic Avenue and Cumberland Street on Tuesday, December 1. It was around 4:40pm when the suspect “approached the victim from
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Image via NYPD.Whereas last week (December 28-January 3 [/blog/2016/01/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-28-january-3/] ) saw an increase in felony assaults and burglaries, this week, there was a decrease in felony assaults and an increase in burglaries and grand larcenies. Overall, crime compared to last week, last month, and last year
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Image via NYPD.Felony assaults and burglaries inched up a bit this week compared to last week (December 21-27 [/blog/2016/01/07/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-21-27/]), but rapes dropped from 1 to 0. Overall, crime compared to last week, last month, and last year showed decent drops and only small increases. Hopefully
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Image via NYPD.Christmas week was a good one in terms of crime rates in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Reports dropped across the board compared to the previous week (December 14-20) [/blog/2015/12/28/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-14-20/], except for grand larcenies (which stayed the same at 5 incidents) and rapes
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A rookie officer from the 88th Precinct as badly beaten and left with a broken jaw and multiple bruises after he reportedly tried to break up a fight at a bar in Manhattanthis past Sunday, January 3, at around 1:40am. Officer Timothy Keane, 24, was off-duty at the time
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Image via NYPD.There was no big change in crime between the week of December 14-20 compared to the previous week [/blog/2015/12/18/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-december-7-to-13/], with felony assaults ticking down 1 and grand larcenies dropping by 2 incidents, but robberies and auto thefts going a bit up. Overall, crime
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Image via NYPD.The second week in December saw a slight increase in crime compared to the week before [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] (16 versus 12 incidents [/blog/2015/12/11/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-30-december-9/] ), although felony assaults, housing crimes, and petit larceny went down. Shootings jumped up to 2 victims in
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Image via NYPD.The week after Thanksgiving saw an almost 50% drop in overall crime from the week before (22 incidents) [/blog/2015/12/04/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-23-29/] and it was even the lowest in the past month (with 14 incidents from November 16-22 [/blog/2015/12/01/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-16-22/] and 19 from
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Image via NYPD.We see-sawed back up in reported crimes Thanksgiving week compared to the week prior, with 22 total incidents in major crime categories, compared to last week’s 14 [/blog/2015/12/01/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-week-of-november-16-22/] and the previous week’s 19 [/blog/2015/11/20/88th-precinct-crime-statistics-november-9-15-reduced-crime/]. This was also
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance images have been released by the NYPD of a suspect in the knife assault [/blog/2015/12/03/blood-splatter-victim-identified-playwright-david-henry-hwang-is-recuperating-after-seemingly-random-slashing/] on Fort Greene resident and prominent Broadway playwright David Henry Hwang. Seen above and in the Wanted poster below, the suspect is shown crossing the street in
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Photo by Lia Chang [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Henry_Hwang_photo_by_Lia_Chang2013.jpg] .It turns out that the mysterious blood splatter trail [/blog/2015/12/01/blood-stained-sidewalk-at-south-portland-streets-and-lafayette-avenue-startles-residents/] on South Portland Avenue between Lafayette and DeKalb Avenues was the remnants of an attack on neighbor and