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Council Member Mark Treyger. Photo courtesy of NYC Council, John McCarten

Brooklyn Pol: NYPD Must Include Traffic Crashes In Crime Data

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 13, 2020 | No Comments

Council Member Mark Treyger wants New York’s Finest to include traffic crashes its world-renowned crime data portal known as CompStat so that crashes are treated with equal seriousness by the NYPD.

This is the intersection where a now-arrested driver killed 85-year-old Luis Cardona last year. Photo: Google

Cops Finally Charge Driver Who Ran Over and Killed Queens Senior Last Fall

By Julianne Cuba | Mar 9, 2020 | No Comments

Police have arrested the driver who killed an elderly pedestrian last fall — six months after the fatal Queens crash.

The truck driver who killed a 3-year-old boy in Harlem last year says it was the mother's fault for not holding his hand. Photo: Citizen

Trucker Who Killed 3-Year-Old Boy In Harlem Blames Child’s Mother For Not Holding His Hand

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 25, 2020 | No Comments

“It’s being made out like I did something wrong, I did not,” the killer driver told Streetsblog. “The mother should have had the child in her hand.”

The intersection of Bell Boulevard and 48th Avenue, where a driver hit and killed a senior on Sunday. Photo: Google

Another Senior Is Killed By Uncharged Driver On Bell Boulevard

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 24, 2020 | No Comments

Another senior citizen has been run over and killed on Bell Boulevard in Queens — and the driver was once again not charged.

Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez's office botched a case against a killer driver. His spokesman took exception to our coverage. Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

Brooklyn DA Admits ‘Mistake’ For Letting Killer Driver Off The Hook

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 6, 2020 | No Comments

Eric Gonzalez said his staff was wrong to drop the case against driver John Sherman for backing over 85-year-old Stella Clinton.

This is the car that a driver used to kill Stella Clinton last year. Photo: Ben Verde

Brooklyn DA Let Killer Driver Off The Hook for No Reason

By Julianne Cuba | Feb 3, 2020 | No Comments

Police had arrested 49-year-old John Sherman shortly after he struck and killed 85-year-old Stella Clinton as he reversed into his driveway. But Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez dropped the case.

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