Since last Thursday’s town-hall style meeting where Senator Golden, and 68 Precinct Captain Eric Rodriguez addressed scores of angry Bay Ridge residents over a marked spike in home invasion/robberies – fear is still palpable among local residents, who complain that the 68 command has been “lathargic.”

Police were really lax here and things have gotten terrible,” said one local resident to the Brooklyn Paper; in a sentiment that jibes with such long held stigmas casting the 68 Precinct as everything from a “country club”- to any number of other uncomplimentary pseudonyms.

Indeed: NYPD’s weekly COMPSTAT report does confirm a 21% spike in robberies from this week last year, despite an overall drop in crime for the entire year – reports Gowanus Lounge.

A statistic that undoubtedly doesn’t assuage the fears of a community that, in years past, has been accused of being everything from ‘alarmist,’ to ‘complainers.’

A week later, however, local cops have responded – as Captain Rodriguez promised – by saturating the streets of Bay Ridge with an almost unprecedented uniformed presence, possibly turning the long-held characterization of an inept and ‘lethargic’ precinct on its head; while importing officers from neighboring precincts for a full scale impact war on what the 68 Captain has dubbed a series of “rear entry push-in robberies.”

(photo courtesy: Home Reporter)