Brooklyn pols speak out against racial disparity in murder cases
Brooklyn politicians held a press conference last week to bring awareness to and discuss solutions regarding amount of unsolved murder cases in Brooklyn and New York’s other outer boroughs.
A report by the New York Daily News revealed that outer-borough homicide cases have received less staffing and resources than those cases in precincts throughout Manhattan. Brooklyn leads the unfortunate way in understaffed homicide cases.
According to the report, the three outer-borough neighborhoods with the highest number of open cases, according to reports, are East Flatbush, Crown Heights North and East New York. Last year there were 77 open murder investigations in Brooklyn — Manhattan only had 15.