NYPD statistics show larceny and robbery reports have spiked in Park Slope, leaving neighborhood merchants fearful of increasingly brazen criminals.
at a Park Slope jewelry store is just the latest audacious attack in the once-quiet, upscale Brooklyn enclave, The Post has learned.
At the AT&T store, thieves, also armed with sledgehammers, tried but failed to get into the safe — the second time the store was hit in less than a month. Under the controversial 2019 state criminal justice reforms, judges are prohibited from setting bail on most crimes — including nearly all non-violent larcenies.
Between January 2022 and September 2022, cops reported 736 petit and grand larceny reports from neighborhood retailers — up from 473 over the same period in 2021. “The first time they broke through the glass door with a sledgehammer and ran to the back office,” AT&T salesman Mursalin Rasool said of the two late-night incidents there.
While grand larceny reports — thefts of valuables worth $1,000 or more — make up about 15% of retail thefts, the bulk of the 2022 crimes plaguing Park Slope through September were smaller heists classified as petit larceny.
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