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69th Precinct Crime Stats: Second Best In City In 2007 As the year 2007 came to an end, Canarsie's 69th Precinct had a lot to be proud of, especially from a statistical standpoint, where it wound up having the second largest decrease in overall crime in all of the city's 76 precincts. Reports from citywide NYPD crime summaries and weekly meetings by precinct commanders - known as CompStat - determined that, in the local precinct, there were decreases for the past year in robberies, felonious assaults, burglaries, grand larcenies and auto thefts. Unfortunately rapes and murders here both went up, with murder cases increasing to nine, from seven the previous year. The number of rapes increased to 15, where there were eight in 2006. Captain Ralph Monteforte, commanding officer of the local precinct, noted that all of the homicides were as a result of guns, rather than any other weapon. "It's obvious that guns are the culprit from these statistics alone," he said. "Now, whenever our detectives or other officers go to a crime scene, they hand out cards and other information telling the public that we'll buy guns from them with no questions asked. That seems to be working to a fair degree, but we've got to make it work even more and get the guns off the street." Last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference announcing decreases in crime - especially murders - all over the city. Bloomberg said there was a 17 percent decrease in murder and a 13 percent decrease in subway crime. Overall, he said, the drop in crime was six percent. "Our philosophy has always been that one crime is one crime too many," Bloomberg told reporters. "We've defied conventional wisdom and we've bucked national crime trends." Kelly said the NYPD will continue with its "Operation Impact" program, where the newest class of Police Academy graduates will patrol areas that have not shown decreases in crime statistics, and even some showing increases. He said the Brooklyn precincts where the Impact officers were being assigned included the 71st, 73rd, 77th, 79th and the 75th Precinct, which borders some areas just to the east of Canarsie.
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