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The Sunset Park community gathered with 72nd Precinct Commanding Officer Emmanuel Gonzalez and Councilmember Carlos Menchaca at National Night Out. (Photo: Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)As the city announced its new police commissioner — precincts, politicians, and communities from all boroughs came together for “National Night Out [/events/sunset-park-ready-for-national-night-out-against-crime/]” against
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(Courtesy: Policy Exchange / Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/policyexchange/7105974645/in/photolist-bPVYGe-qpeEfU-q7TnU8-qpfhg1-qp7VAr-wgAHcm-qn24sY-q7RZjT-q7LagQ-qpiFjn-q7JVaJ-kbZ99e-q7RLPT-q7JUAs-kbPGrk-q7TrPc-qn2gtG-jeVGzc-kbQh98-qpiHXZ-q7TrYR-q7JZ19-qn2sv1-q7TyrR-q7JUio-kbQ9be-qpi74p-q7K4MU-q7T5Sx-qpeuSW-qn2iAN-q5Yfd1-qpido8-psxaKc-psxty8-qpf8oS-prPXpp-q7Tw3T-qiV8qs-q7JqDf-q65HCi-qpeyYm-kc2p5S-kbQ1hZ-q7Td2H-kcGGxa-qn1T4S-r7P8F1-66R7xQ-k6nqsZ] )Commissioner Bill Bratton will step down a
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Photo via Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC/photos/a.1215105401856842.1073741868.208955165805209/1215105591856823/?type=3&theater] The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) will hold a rally this evening [http://jfrej.org/event/jews4blacklives-brooklyn-728/] (Thursday, July 28) which
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Photo via Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC/photos/a.1215105401856842.1073741868.208955165805209/1215105591856823/?type=3&theater] The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) will hold a rally this evening [http://jfrej.org/event/jews4blacklives-brooklyn-728/] (Thursday, July 28) which
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(Courtesy Flickr/cisc1970 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/8554386075/in/photolist-e2VsX6-7DjZ4h-pLgh4Q-s1V4Bf-4NWdok-7JtXmh-66YzCb-n2Cg6-sikcXG-s1V4vo-sikcU5-s1TYEw-qHg8cH-nWwxCg-oe1vJF-obYtvj-5at3YZ-5axk51-qqQPNk-4KmgdB-dpmBUS-6wPejN-praaxM-3jgctu-6WQanj-4QHAmP-sikdqf-obYCAU-at8km9-sirz9B-nWw1ix-odRdzh-8FRz9u-6JXhAo-sgcenN-odHmwc-odWz3j-nWvSsc-c5UWdC-qHgewr-ionXEk-4QMNmJ-5e6qso-qEYwNs-c5UZB5-gvmbV7-qqPjox-qqQK1K-qHc3Kb-7JtWTJ] )Seven have been arrested for allegedly selling drugs l
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Photo courtesy of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo’s office.Last spring, Councilmember Laurie Cumbo introduced a bill known as Int 762 that would “require all taxicabs, hail vehicles, liveries, black cars, and luxury limousines to have a panic button installed that would allow a passenger to send a distress signal to
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Deputy Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, left, is the new commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South. He was appointed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and replaces retiring Chief Gerald Nelson. (Photo courtesy of NYPD.)A veteran leader in the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Brooklyn South (which covers all precincts below Flatbush
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Photo by Demetrius Freeman/Mayoral Photography Office [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nycmayorsoffice/15931487722/]Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Fort Greene’s Ingersoll Houses on Tuesday, December 2 in order to tout a 4.4 percent drop [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/536-14/de-blasio-administration-marks-safest-august---november-period-since-modern-crime-statistics-began#/0] in violent crime
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Next year will be the last year for the annual New Year’s Eve steam whistle show on Pratt Institute’s campus, officials say. (Photo by Scott Lynch)The familiar sound of Pratt Institute’s New Year’s Eve steam whistles will ring in 2014 – and 2015 – but midnight on