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EXCLUSIVE: NYPD will reassign over 300 cops to Brooklyn and the Bronx in an effort to decrease gun violence

  • The summer deployment could reach as many as 400 officers,...

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    The summer deployment could reach as many as 400 officers, police officials said.

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  • Brooklyn precincts will receive 162 reassigned cops.

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    Brooklyn precincts will receive 162 reassigned cops.

  • The Bronx will get 134 of the reassigned cops as...

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    The Bronx will get 134 of the reassigned cops as part of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's summer surge.

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The overwhelming majority of the more than 300 extra cops that will hit the city’s streets on Monday will be deployed in Brooklyn and the Bronx, the Daily News has learned.

Staten Island and Manhattan won’t get any extra help.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton issued a memo on June 30, detailing a three-month surge dubbed “Summer All Out.”

A subsequent internal NYPD memo dated July 3 and obtained by The News shows the exact breakdown.

There will be 313 cops swapping their desk jobs for patrols in crime hot spots in an effort to squash a rise in shootings.

The summer deployment could reach as many as 400 officers, police officials said.

Brooklyn precincts will get 162 of the reassigned cops and the Bronx will get 134. About a third of the officers will be patrolling housing projects, the memo notes.

The two boroughs combined will get nearly 95% of the extra officers. About 75% of the reported shootings in 2014 have been in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Forty will go to the 47th Precinct in the northernmost Bronx, which has seen 10 murders through June 29, compared with just one during the same period last year.

The Bronx will get 134 of the reassigned cops as part of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's summer surge.
The Bronx will get 134 of the reassigned cops as part of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s summer surge.

Neighbors worried the extra cops wouldn’t be enough to stop the bloodshed.

“It’s just going to stay the same,” said Warren Lee, 56. “I’ve seen people getting killed left and right. The cops really can’t stop it.”

Shootings in the precinct have more than doubled this year, from 14 to 29.

Forty cops will also arrive in the 69th Precinct in Canarsie, Brooklyn, on Monday.

Brooklyn precincts will receive 162 reassigned cops.
Brooklyn precincts will receive 162 reassigned cops.

While that precinct has reported only one murder this year, there have been 21 shootings, compared with just six during the same period last year.

“It would be good if they deployed more police,” said Canarsie construction worker Errol Prince, 53. “They keep (criminals) off the streets.”

Queens will be getting 17 cops — all of them going to the 113th Precinct in Jamaica.

Many of the newly deployed cops come from departments where officers don’t walk beats, such as the Internal Affairs Bureau, Legal Bureau and License Division.

Bratton is banking on the operation reversing a citywide 8% spike in shootings.

With Marco Poggio

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