The 106th Precinct had the largest crime drop of any precinct in the city during the last four-week period, the precinct commander told The Courier.
Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff said the 106th Precinct had a 32.3 percent drop in serious crime from Sept. 29 to Oct. 26 compared to the same period in 2013.
Schiff said the nearly one-third decrease came about through better interaction with the community.
“By keeping the community informed, residents are in a better position to help out the police,” Schiff said. “My cops have been working hard and it shows.”
Overall, major crime fell from 164 incidents to 111 during the period and the precinct’s most persistent plague, auto theft, was nearly cut in half, from 29 car thefts in 2013 to 15 for the same period this year.
Robberies tumbled from 34 to 24, burglaries fell from 23 to 15 and felony assaults dropped from 21 to 16. The largest drop in any category was in grand larceny, from 55 to 38.
“We’ve changed up our strategies on the ways to attack these types of crimes,” Schiff said. “And it seems to be working.”
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