By COLlive reporter
After community demands for a stronger police presence following several recent attacks, police officials have detailed the steps that they will be taking to address the issue and ensure greater security in the area.
At a meeting at the 71 Precinct in Crown Heights, Vaad Hakohol Chairman Zaki Tamir, CHJCC Vice President Chanina Sperlin, and Executive Director Eli Cohen met with 71st Precinct Commander Frank Giordano to discuss increased police coverage.
Also present at the meeting were Community Affairs Officer Vinny Martinos and Pinny Ringel from Mayor Bill Deblasio‘s office.
At the meeting, the NYPD informed that there will be six additional patrol cars every day in the areas that have experienced the most incidents, with additional officers assigned to Kingston Avenue on foot.
Light towers will be placed at strategic locations to further deter potential attacks, they said.
The Hate Crimes Task Force and local detective squads are pursuing an active investigation to apprehend the perpetrators of recent attacks in the Crown Heights neighborhood, including a mugging at knifepoint, a Jewish man punched and thrown to the ground and a man punched in the chest.
Wanted posters have been created and are being distributed in an attempt to catch the perpetrators.
Police officials also expressed their appreciation of the work of the Crown Heights Security Patrols in assisting them, both in identifying suspects and in providing video and other evidence.
Also this week, NYPD 71st Commanding Officer Frank Giordano and Community Affairs Officer Vinny Martinos met with Police Liaison Devorah Halberstam to discuss local security concerns.
Starting next week, when over 2,000 women and girls will begin arriving in Crown Heights for the Kinus Hashluchos convention, there will be several additional patrols assigned to the neighborhood, Martinos told COLlive.
“Our concern is to make sure to keep everyone safe during this time,” Martinos said. “We are making sure to secure all targets, and bringing in extra resources such as high tech equipment, security dogs, and extra resources that we have available,” he said.
The annual women’s convention is always a concern for the NYPD, with police working closely with Kinus organizers to make sure visitors and residents are protected and safe.
Community leaders will be meeting again with police personnel in a few days to further evaluate the situation and work on a more long term security plan, the CHJCC confirmed.
This is ridiculous. There needs to be a camera on every corner and more. Put in panic buttons with survelliene. This boy could have ran a few feet and the cops would have come. Loud alarms as well. Come on, if you can’t put this together you shouldn’t be part of a community board. Quit and let someone that cares take over.
Great photo ops but no action. There never is. THERE AREN’T ANY POLICE! You are sitting ducks living in this place, & that includes my children. It’s bad enough this problem is becoming epidemic, with all the shluchos coming in it will be thuggery heaven.
Please Shluchos, guests & girls: DO NOT WALK ALONE, even during the day, even on major streets like Crown between Albany & Brooklyn. It just isn’t safe.
sign me
Mom whose daughter in law was accosted by a pervert & whose teenage son was mugged & assaulted 3 times
You sit around chewing the fat with the Police. All shucking and grinning with the Police. You needed to have a lawyer with you that represents the community and be taking notes. They are laughing at you all. When you get serious and handle this like pros they will too. Jews are getting assaulted and all smiles. What planet are we on?
While you make some valid points regarding tzniut, etc. Getting married early is not the solution to this problem. BP and CH are very different neighborhoods with different populations around us. This is nothing new in CH. It’s just a fact that BP is safer. Also, many newlyweds from CH are forced to move out bc of the ridiculous rents being charged due to the recent influx of hipsters which you don’t have in BP, although you do have high rent.
It’s not their job to make sure that no crimes ever happen. Hello people, welcome to life. No person can prevent this, you live in brooklyn. None of these things are new, it’s just that now you can hear about every little thing that happens courtesy of the news services. If you can’t handle hearing everything, which is perfectly fine and normal because it’s depressing and frightening, then just don’t read the news so much.
They may not know there is an “Eye that sees and an ear that hears”but they will be concerned that a camera is recording their every move.
As a Chabadnick, I must say you have very good points!!!
How do they know the suspect on Montgomery and Utica is 16?
Thank you NYPD for taking this seriously. Thank you Devorah Halbershtam for taking the time to represent Crown Heights when we need it. I”m sure good things came out of the meeting
You need chabad guys to marry younger like the other chassidim do. If they married at 18 or 19 there would be many more Jews to take over the whole area. Every other Chassidic group is exploding. Why aren’t there ten wedding halls in crown heights. Why are so many girls not getting married fast. You could double your population. Look at how fast other chassidim are growing. They get engaged by 17 and by the time many lubavitch guys marry they have five kids. Wake up. You want victory get married. Now. And when girls wait around they modernize.… Read more »
how about us and our kids?// dont we deserve proper protection? this is a critical situation..we dont want to go back to the seventies..CHV
Does anybody realize how pathetic this looks? What is the correlation between Jews being beaten and Jewish ‘leaders’ taking smiling pictures with the people who are supposed to be protecting us. Stop playing nice. Call it for what it is, gross neglect of our security needs. We need a community wide demonstration. Talk truth to power. If you don’t act now, Gd forbid this will escalate.
That’s sure gonna take care of things. Don’t hold your breath.
Surveillance cameras will only work if the police actually intend to go after them. Many of the crimes committed WERE recorded on surveillance cameras and posted online – and much good that did. Make the punishment fit the crime.
May we catch him soon.
The big issue the community never addressed and failed to take action is the homeless shelters in our community and halfway houses that bring in the criminal element (not to say they are all criminals)
So we wake up now when there was no out cry of our community we left the door open with our inaction to the consequences where facing now
The problem is, the same community leaders that they don’t represent us, they take pictures, they smile for the camera, and nothing happens. They are friendly with the politicians and police officials and they take advantage for themselves, for us, are only the pictures, for show. We need ELECTIONS NOW, and change vaad and this activists
round them up and send back to their natural habitat and there in the jungle they can beat up their own !
Another meeting, no cameras.
Great. We all lose.
they look like the same guy?
Is it??