Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.
Crown Heights Area Leads City in Total Murders
Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.
The borough’s numbers are down slightly from 2010, when Brooklyn topped the charts with 42% of the city’s 536 murders.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday that a host of tactics — including a partnership with local clergy to host gun buyback programs — has been used to combat crime in the borough.
“Due in part to this relationship, murders in Brooklyn North fell by 13% last year, more than three times the citywide rate of decline,” Kelly said.
The Bronx logged about 29% of last year’s murders — slightly less than Manhattan and Queens combined, the report shows. Only 3% of the slayings were committed on Staten Island.
The report also shows a significant racial disparity in the killings.
About 62% of all victims were black, although that demographic makes up about 23% of the city’s population, the report shows.
About 38% of murder victims were black men between 16 and 37 years old, the stats show.
The records also show that nearly 75% of all victims had prior arrests and about 11% were confirmed gang members.
One in five homicide victims were women, 54% of them killed in domestic violence incidents, stats show.
Some honor!
And what about muggings per capita? Muggings of JEWS???? Car break ins? Bet we lead those as well.
Marc
“About 62% of all victims were black”.
Why doesn’t the article state what percentage of the murderers were black?
me
To#2 because they are dumb liberals
TCS
for sure #1 has a major point.
and for sure #2 is a great insight.
and what people have been saying : deal with the indigent, deal with the gangs, deal with dysfunction which needs to be dealt with with social services. use the social services the way that it helps.
to #2
tis the way of the ObamaCare world
CH Criminals get preferential treatment
The reason for Crown Heights having been a leader in crime? Simple- the preferential treatment criminals get here. No where else that I know of in the constitutional United States are citizens consistently treated like criminals for defending themselves or even for Calling the police. This applies not only to officers but certain captains. The times that the police in CH actually behave appropriately are mostly when the criminals are no longer on the scene and there is no one for them to fear or feel the need to side with. Of course, under the new management at the station that all might change. Hope for the best- or make all this public already.
Addition to #4
Pardon me, not ALL CH citizenes are consistently treated like criminals for defending themselves, only the Jewish ones. You know, them people who haven’t contributed to the per capita assaults & murders in this area.
Ad Masai!
What a racist article (: