NYPD is policing without boundaries.
Crime in the infamous hotspots is crossing the Big Apple. The NYPD is touting a new strategy to guide COP into target zones regardless of the district boundaries they cross, authorities said this week.
“The idea is literally flooding the zone,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tish told the crowd at a business breakfast in Manhattan on Wednesday. “In a world of limited resources, you can't overflow zones within a four-square-mile precinct. It's not necessary, but you can do that with 10 problematic blocks.”
The plan, developed last summer, helped to cut massive crimes across Gotham by 15%, officers said.
Six new “specialist borough zones” have been created by Michael Lipetri, NYPD's director of crime management strategies, by one police Plaza Brass, which uses crime data to map areas around “crime clusters.”
In many cases, the area spans the boundaries of multiple precincts.
“The perpetrators don't know the boundaries of the precinct,” Lipetri said. “The analysis shows where we need to be. So there are several zones that contain three precincts.”
Zones – Times Square in Midtown, 125th Avenue in Harlem, Roosevelt Avenue, Downtown Flushing, Jamaica in Queens, and White Plains Road in the Bronx have all seen reducing major crime, according to NYPD data.
“We're going to have police officers in the right area… at the right time,” Lipetri said.
New ways, collaboration It aims to make officers more fluid, amid a variety of NYPD units.
The department has regularly sent 650 additional officers to these specialty zones since last summer.
The zone itself is also fluid, allowing it to move across the city if crime spikes in certain areas. So, for example, more officers will be stationed in areas where pickpockets are thriving for the summer months and holidays, Lipetri said.
“This is a multi-bourlow approach,” Lipetri said transit, drugs and intelligence agents play the role.
In high-cost traffic areas such as Times Square and 125th Street, officers are closely searching for grab-and-go thefts like pickpockets, Lipetri said.
As a result, Grand Larseny has fallen by 32% and 30%, respectively, according to police.
On Roosevelt Avenue, officers are turning their eyes to prostitution, which the Post has exposed as the infamous “lovers' market” for open-air sex trades.
Last week, officers arrested a woman and three men who promoted prostitution as they loved prostitutes at an underground brothel at 88-22 Roosevelt Avenue, police sources said.
The brothel photos obtained by the post show a shady scene of a bed separated by curtains.
Six sex workers were provided with support and released. All other people have been charged, sources confirmed.
