By COLlive reporter
After a few weeks of relative quiet, a burglar has once again struck on Friday night in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
During the summer months, a string of burglaries occurred during Shabbos night, when families were away on vacation or asleep. The robberies stopped in late August, after the NYPD released a photo of a suspect.
While in the summer burglaries the thief used a car jack to pry open window bars and gain entrance to the homes, this past Friday night there was no sign of forced entry.
Three silver candelabras were removed from the residence on Carroll Street near Schenectady Ave. while the occupants of the home slept.
“The NYPD has deployed extra patrols and undercover units to catch the perpetrator, and will continue to do so until this individual is arrested,” a source at the 71st Precinct told COLlive.
The precinct also offered that residents can call PO Bulzoni at 718 735-0528 for a free survey to strengthen their homes’ security.
Nowadays, anyone can EASILY learn how to pick a lock. Just do a search on a tem like “How to pick a lock youtube” -plenty of “shiurim” to choose from.
Yes, if your locks are cheap, you are vulnerable! While more expensive locks are no guarantee against picking, why make it easy with the cheap ones?
get the surveillance cameras
ARE THEY ON THE RIGHT PLACE,RIGHT DOORS,SOME WITH OUT,YOU BE SURPRISED
maybe it was there cleaning lady
To#9 You can join the NYPD and replace their laziness.
There is no way for police to catch a criminal especially at 5am. The criminal is too talented and aware of his surroundings. How would the cops catch him if the people in the house slept through it. The only way to stop this is for them to take crime seriously. When they do catch someone they need to put them away for a long time so others think twice
part of the problem is that the cops work so many overtime hours during the week to give yidden tickets they know shabbos is their day off also, no point stepping up patrol if you cant bring in tickets as well. less cops = more crime
Put cameras on every corner and have the nypd watch it 24 hr the chjcc gets 14 million a year they should be able to afford it
You can so blame the nypd, no, not that they can control everything but we happen to have quite an incompetent police force. If I can walk past a parked “patrol”car and see a sleeping police officer inside, then I have every right to blame the police force, at least partially for not having stopped these crimes
totally agree – you can’t blame PD – they cant be everywhere every minute. These comments are insane suggesting they could or should.
They try the best they can – obviously we need to try to figure out what to do to avoid getting robbed. Contacting this police officer names above is a good start.
As is speaking to shomrim or shmira (whichever your heart desires) and having one of their members explain what can be done.
The answer is not to sound like a bunch of croaks complaining and whining.
I see patrols all the time,but they can not control the whole neighborhood,unless you want to live we do police state.
The only one to blame here is the thief. Whining and complaining will not solve anything.People just need to be more vigilant and careful and pray that we catch him or her.
Maybe Bill de Blasio is right. NYPD ARE lazy, especially in 71st.
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Are the police asleep ? Why is he so hard to catch ? He has been stealing silver for months now . He must be pawning them somewhere . Or are they looking the other way
It says that there was no sign of forced entry this time – always double check that all windows & doors are locked & don’t leave your house key in a “secret” place for family or guests – a goniff knows all of those secret places !! And remind your out-of-town guests that it is crucial that they lock the door behind themselves everytime.
and they always pulling over people to give tickets but when there is a crime they are nowhere to be found
Walked home late Friday night thru the streets of Crown Heights and did not even see ONE patrol car or one police man on duty anywhere . Where are these
” extra” patrols ?
71 pct has over 100 officers and how many are watching the streets? 0