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NYPD Lieutenant Joseph Hayward prepares to strike Brent Schmidt at Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)The new commanding officer at the 68th Precinct brings with him a troubling record of allegations of civil rights violations against civilians. Captain Joseph Hayward – who took the helm of
News
(Photo: Senator Chuck Schumer [https://www.facebook.com/chuckschumer/photos/a.440124729406.239210.15771239406/477565004406/?type=3&theater] / FacebookSenator Chuck Schumer says the Department of Justice must make it a “top priority” to extradite a man from Australia wanted for the brutal 2009 murder of a Brighton Beach shopkeeper.
Events
Captain Winston Faison speaking at the 61st Community Council meeting. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Got a gripe about public safety issues in your neighborhood? Tomorrow is your chance to meet with top brass at the 61st Precinct, Sheepshead Bay’s station house, and make your voice heard. The precinct’
Central Brooklyn
Area near the Parade Grounds where a man was punched in the face yesterday. (Photo: Google Maps)A gay man who lives in our area was the victim yesterday of what he says was a bias attack. The 28-year-old man, who wishes to remain anonymous, was punched in the face
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Photo by Alex Ellefson / Fort Greene Focus.Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries is one of 44 co-sponsors of a bill pushing for police reforms regarding officer training, data collection about traffic stops and deadly force uses, police misconduct investigations, and wait periods that allow cops under investigation in a shooting to avoid
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Image via Kings County DA’s office.23 years to life. That’s the sentence for Victorious Kingsberry, 20, the Clinton Hill man who was convicted three months ago [/blog/2015/11/24/clinton-hill-man-convicted-in-killing-of-beloved-local-homeless-man-gilbert-kelley/] for shooting “beloved” local homeless man Gilbert Kelley [/blog/2014/03/24/neighbors-family-hold-memorial-service-gilbert-kelly/] in the chest
Police & Fire
(Photo: mikey k / flickr)Talk about unsafe sex! Cops arrested a half-naked man running through Sheepshead Bay Saturday after slashing and robbing a woman who had invited him to her apartment for a one-night stand, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/half-naked-man-arrested-robbing-slashing-cougar-sex-pal-article-1.2554134] . Police apprehended Levan
Central Brooklyn
303 Argyle Road. (Photo: Google Maps)A teenage boy was attacked by two men as he walked to a friend’s house in Ditmas Park last night, cops said. The 14-year-old boy was accosted by two men, and stabbed by at least one, near 303 Argyle Road on Sunday night
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a man who last week allegedly flashed a woman on the B train. The suspect was riding the Brighton-bound B train Thursday around 3pm when he exposed his genitals to a 23-year-old woman, according to the NYPD. He got off the
Bensonhurst
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanPolice are urging neighbors to be cautious of crooks posing as uniformed utility workers after a man posing as an energy salesman tried to break into a Dyker Heights home. More via News 12 Brooklyn [http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/man-claiming-to-be-energy-salesman-attempts-to-rob-dyker-heights-apartment-1.11540039] : > The incident happened around
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Photo by Francisco Daum.A car stolen from near the Brooklyn Navy Yard ended up crashed into a cement street median and parked cars in Coney Island on Saturday night, said police. As first reported in the [http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/joyriding-teens-crash-stolen-car-brooklyn-article-1.2554706] New York Daily News [http:
Central Brooklyn
Individual suspected of robbing the Chase branch at Newkirk Plaza today. Photo: NYPDThe NYPD is asking for the public’s help in identifying the man in the photos above who is believed to be connected to a bank robbery that occurred today — Saturday — at Newkirk Plaza. Police say that they