Decrease in Bed-Stuy Shootings for 2015 Is Unprecedented, NYPD Chief Says
(DNAINFO) Camille Bautista | January 15, 2016 — Eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant saw 14 less shooting victims last year compared to 2014, an “unprecedented” decrease according to the commanding officer of the NYPD’s 81st Precinct.
“I looked back at 15 years of shootings and the decrease from one year to the next of that many — I couldn’t find that many when I went back and looked,” Deputy Inspector Scott Henderson said at a council meeting Tuesday.
A total of 30 people were shot in 2015, compared to 44 the previous year, he added.