Brooklyn Today
NYPD STATEMENT ON MTA CAMERAS: Following complaints from ridership about malfunctioning surveillance cameras that failed to record the sequence of events during Tuesday’s attack on the subway, the NYPD issued a statement in defense of its operations, and attributing the camera problem to a technical issue. The statement, bearing signatory of John Miller, Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence and Counterterrorism, reads (in part), “The MTA is a vital partner in the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System and supplies live feeds from 5,100 cameras and an additional 5,000 cameras that record locally throughout the subway system. These are used on average dozens of times on a daily basis to identify specific incidents, crimes and to identify perpetrators. We communicate with the MTA about outages when they occur. Miller attributed the success in capturing the gunman to witness descriptions, law enforcement coordination and the recovery of other video and clues.
Miller added, “The MTA cameras in other parts of the system were essential elements in determining his movements before and after the shootings. Their personnel worked with us around the clock to identify and retrieve images in this case.”
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INVESTIGATING CIVILIAN DEATH BY NYPD VEHICLE: The death of a man following his encounter with NYPD personnel is now a focus of New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation. OSI has opened an investigation into the civilian’s death on Thursday, April 7, when he was struck by an NYPD as he stood on Eastern Parkway near Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights. The civilian was rushed to a local hospital and he was pronounced dead.