Bronx Crime Watch: Still Waiting on Neighborhood Crime Stats

Don’t think we’ve forgotten about this, NYPD. As we’ve said repeatedly: These neighborhood crime statistics would be an invaluable resource for citizens. It’s our contention that precinct-wide crime numbers are almost completely useless if we still don’t know, specifically, where the crimes are happening. Our count-up (see below) starts from when we first formally requested sector stats for the 52nd Precinct last June. In October of last year we requested sector stats for every precinct in the borough.

Bronx News Roundup, Friday, July 8

Weather: It says on weather.com that it’s 77 degrees out this Friday morning in the Bronx. But my sweat-drenched body and wardrobe begs to differ. If it is, it’s a thick, muggy, shirt-sticking-to-your-back 77.