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Kamaji:
More than a quarter of NYC shootings take place in these six neighborhoods

By Georgett Roberts, Tina Moore and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
February 1, 2023

More than a quarter of all Big Apple shootings take place in just six harried NYPD precincts — all of them in the Bronx and Brooklyn, according to a citywide performance report released this week.

The Mayor’s Management Report highlights the city’s most bullet-riddled neighborhoods — covering areas including Mott Haven, Morrisania and Woodlawn in the Bronx, and Brooklyn’s Brownsville, East New York and Cypress Hill — where about 27% of shootings take place.

“I am tired of it. Sometimes you can’t even sleep because of the shootings,” said Ralph Campbell, 59, who has lived in his Brownsville neighborhood for 45 years.

“You are in your kitchen, you get shot. It’s unsafe,” he told The Post Wednesday.

Police and law enforcement experts blamed surging post-pandemic crime and lenient state laws that make it harder to keep repeat offenders behind bars for the gun violence paralyzing those areas.

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mountaineer:
If the criminals don't get you, the rats will. My niece attends Cardozo Law School, and when she and her friends take a break at Union Sq. Park, they can barely hear each other talk over the din of the rats rustling around in the leaves.

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