Coney Island, NY – Guns are blazing in Southern Brooklyn, NYPD statistics show.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
The traditionally less-violent Brooklyn South patrol borough – comprised of 13 police precincts – is the only command in the city to report a spike in shootings so far this year.
There were 103 shootings in Brooklyn South – especially in neighborhoods such as East Flatbush, Crown Heights and Coney Island – up from 82 at this time last year.
Of the Brooklyn South precincts, the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush experienced a 54.5% increase, one of the biggest surges in the city.
There have been 34 shootings in the 67th so far this year – up from 22 at this time last year, according to NYPD numbers.
The rise in gun violence in the 67th Precinct comes as shootings citywide are down, particularly in troubled areas like the Bronx and upper Manhattan.
Some neighborhoods in traditionally violent Brooklyn North also bucked the citywide shooting decline.
Neighbor Angel Melendez, 30, said he’s aware of four separate shootings since moving from Williamsburg in April.
“It’s been very scary moving from a neighborhood with no shootouts like that to an area with multiple shootouts at once,” said Melendez, who works at a consulting firm.
“You can’t even go to the store to buy a gallon of milk without worrying about being shot.”
Most of the shootings are bad guys shooting other bad guys that they know, but every once in a while an innocent person gets shot.
Seems like those gun control laws aren’t working out too well. If guns are illegal, why are there so many shootings? The bad guys, who will have guns anyway, absolutely love an unarmed population.
Weak laws=tough criminals.
We get what we deserve.
Mayor Bloomberg’s 3rd term has been a disaster for crime statistics.
I remember one incident in either 1969 or 1970, when an unmarked undercover police car accidentally collided with another car in either Brownsville or Bedford-Stuyvesant. The occupants of the car, which collided with the police exited the car, and began firing guns immediately. However, the cops returned the fire, and killed and/or wounded several of the occupants of that car. In 1961, a robber with a shotgun held up a Brooklyn bank on Kings Highway and killed the bank guard, Henry Krauss. In 1962, a psycho came up to two cops on the Coney Island Boardwalk, and shot and killed both cops from behind. My point is that gun violence in Brooklyn, even in peaceful areas, is nothing new.