Monday, January 23, 2012
News Sexual Assaults Tripled in North Brooklyn in 2011
Posted by Henry Stewart on Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:37 PM
The Paper reports:
Police sources say the victim knew the perpetrator before the attack in more than two-thirds of cases in Williamsburg and all of the cases in Greenpoint—making it even harder for officers to prevent. “Unfortunately there isn’t much that we can do to stop these types of crimes,” a Greenpoint cop told The Brooklyn Paper.
In August, Councilmember Diana Reyna suggested the rise in sexual assaults might not suggest that more were being committed, but that more women were stepping forward to report them.
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