Next Community Cops Meeting for Windsor Terrace and South Slope is Oct. 27

WINDSOR TERRACE and SOUTH SLOPE, BROOKLYN — The next community policing meeting for South Slope and Windsor Terrace will take place on Oct. 27.

The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at Good Shepherd Hall inside Holy Name Church, located at 245 Prospect Park West.

South Slope and Windsor Terrace are patrolled by Sector A of the NYPD's 72nd Precinct. Sector A is one of four sectors created within the 72nd under the NYPD's community policing model, in place in the precinct since April.

Sectors in the 72nd. Click to enlarge.

Two Neighborhood Coordination Officers, or NCOs, are assigned full-time to each sector. Sector A's NCO's include Officer Daniel McGrath, who can be reached directly by calling 917-853-2601, or by emailing daniel.mcgrath@nypd.org. (A previous NCO, Wilfredo Montes, appears to have been reassigned. Patch is trying to learn the name of his replacement.)

The community meetings are a chance for the sector's NCOs to talk to the community about the department's activities, while also asking for feedback and tips about what they should be focused on.

Precinct Captain Emmanuel Gonzalez told Patch this month that the 72nd has 50 percent more officers than it did at the beginning of the year, a spike in manpower that better allows the precinct to direct resources to crime hot-spots or places where quality-of-life concerns need to be addressed.

Through Oct. 9, major crimes in the 72nd Precinct were collectively up 5 percent compared to last year, according to official police statistics. However, Gonzalez said that more crime reports could simply mean that more crime is being reported — evidence of improving police-community relations — rather than more being committed.

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