This practice led to rising violent crime, and by the early ’90s, the victims were increasingly children. On July 17, 1991, Julia Parker, a popular 17-year-old high school student in East New York, ...

The department hasn't made any statements labeling the incident a potential hate crime. A 69-year-old driver struck three pedestrians while turning right in a Brooklyn intersection on New Year's ...

“Brooklyn continues to get safer year after year and we’re now the safest we’ve ever been in terms of gun violence,” Gonzalez said. “Murders and other serious crime declined as well in ...

Masked men in Brooklyn stabbed and wounded two men at ... bloody jackets and a food delivery bag left behind at the scene. Crime Scene Unit members pored over the location looking for evidence ...

A Brooklyn man is facing hate crime charges for punching a 70-year-old Black woman and calling her the N-word during a clash with the stranger at a Brooklyn subway stop, police said Wednesday.