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Crime Takes A Dip In 69th Precinct In 2006 Brooklyn's 1.3 million inhabitants can feel a little safer now that the New York City Police Department got a little safer from 2005 to 2006 - and so should Canarsie residents. The number of felony crimes reported in the borough's Brooklyn South command showed a seven percent drop in that period from 23,074 to 21,498. That figure was the greatest drop in any boroughwide command last year. Though the 69th Precinct, which patrols and protects Canarsie, didn't rank among the most improved precincts in Brooklyn - that distinction, in descending order, went to the 61st, 76th, 72nd and 62nd precincts - it did have a five percent overall crime decrease, according to statistics recently released by the NYPD's Brooklyn South command. Incidentally, those four precincts still reported more overall crime than the Foster Avenue precinct. Much of the reduction in crime can be traced back to the tactics of former NYPD chief William Bratton, who initiated new and modern techniques while he served under former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. His successors continued to employ and enhance those practices and, as a result, crime in the city continues to fall. According to the published report, the number of murders in the 69th Pct. jumped from four in 2005 to seven last year, while auto theft dropped nearly 29 percent and rape dramatically diminished from 24 in 2005 to eight in 2006 - a 67 percent plunge. Robbery and felonious assaults did rise from the years surveyed with the former rising almost 10 percent and the latter almost two percent. In all, crime was down just over five percent locally, compared to almost seven percent in all of Brooklyn South. In 2006 there were 1,402 major crimes reported in the 69th Pct. compared to 1,476 the prior year. Captain Ralph Monteforte, commanding officer of the "69," told a recent 69th Pct. Community Council meeting that he attributes the drop in crime to the police officers who are on the streets patrolling the community while he oversees his officers and calls the shots "like a baseball manager." In a detailed precinct map published in the Daily News the precincts with the most crime in the borough - the 75th, 70th, 67th and 73rd - are adjacent to Canarsie.
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