70^th Precinct Community Council 

January 2018 Meeting Minutes

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Wednesday, January, 24^th 2018

7:30 PM

Touro College

                   1602 Avenue J, Brooklyn, New York 

 Officers 

Ed Powell, President (not present)

Mary McRae, Vice President

Maria Hazelwood, Treasurer

Nathan Thompson, Secretary

Giselle Nakhid, Sergeant-at-Arms

NYPD, Elected Officials & Other Guests

DI James Palumbo, Commanding Officer 

Captain OMalley, Executive Officer 

Detective Scott Nuzzi, Community Affairs

Det. Kim Walker, Community Affairs

Dale Degale Congresswoman Yvette Clarke

Mike Gregorio for Senator Felder 

Shawn Campbell for Community Board 14

Joe Dweck Community Board 14

Dave Kinser for Councilmember Kalmen Yeger

Taryn O’Brien for Kings County DA’s Office

Bob Moskowitz for Flatbush Shomrim

Jacob Gold for Council Member Jumaane Williams

Walter McQueen for East 21^st Street Tenant

Emmanuel Venbruan for Tennis Court Tennants Association

Soumia Chraibi for Council Member Mathieu Eugene

Ramona Cabreja and Somaya Carabi for Council Member Mathieu Eugene

Himself Assemblymember Robert Carroll

Lisa Derrick for Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte

Imani Henry for  Equality for Flatbush

Pinkus Hikind for  Comptrollers Office

Penny Ringel for the Mayors Office

Reverend Jean F. Beaulieu, Mohommad Nazir, Rabbi Perlstein, and Yahuda Eps Clergy Liaisons

Minister John Williams from 70th Precinct Interfaith Council 

Roz Sokol for Steve Cymborwitz

Tovah Chasinough for Councilmember Duetsch 

Wayne Lamont and Walter Mqueen  for East 21st Block Association

Margarita Canina for Kings County District Attorneys Office

Valentin Morales  Vamos Unidas

Aziz Hutt and Javed Khan for Pakistani Merchants Assoc

Ursula Chase from Brooklyn College Public Safety

Captain Glen Schneider from New York Rescue Response Team

The regular monthly meeting of the 70th Precinct Community Council was called to order.  PCC Vice President Mary McRea greeted all and invited everyone to join her in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.  

She then acknowledged the various representatives of public officials and other distinguished guests present at the meeting (see above). 

1 Shawn Campbell speaks.

     Shawn spoke about her predecessor at CB14 recent passing.  Terri Rhodi "is responsible for many of the great relationships built with the Community Board today."

she explained.  Shawn then went on to highlight the upcoming Youth Conference which last year featured 80 organizations and serviced 600 students.    

2. NCO Sgt Andre Blain says goodbye

     Commander Palumbo introduced and gave and award to Andre Blain the Sgt in charge of the NCOs.  Sgt Blain gave a powerful speech going over his history beginning with his childhood escape from Haiti under "papa doc" Duvalier, to America.  

3.  Commander Palumbo goes over the numbers.

        Up in burglaries throughout entire precinct.  There was a triple shooting at the start of the year at 6:30 am.  It was gang related and not random.  For 2017 in total we were down 10.5%  in index crimes for the year.  Shooting reduction is 68% over the last 2 years.  In other news, February is "teen dating violence" month. There will be outreach specifically towards teens at high schools to talk about this issue.  He touched on the fliers explaining the Sector Safety meetings.  He then offered to take questions.  The only question was regarding defining the "Build the Block" program.  The program is a smaller scale meeting in which the NCO officers in a particular Sector meet with neighbors in that particular sector.  

 4. Taryn Obrien from the DAs office spoke .

    She clarified that the DA's office will not inquire about your immigration status when you report a crime.

 5.  Possibly the shortest meeting in PCC history was adjourned in 20 minutes.

Respectfully submitted,

Nathan Thompson

Minutes of January 2018

70 Pct. Community Council, NYPD