Crime-Hit Washington Heights Community Holds Safety Meeting

Crime-Hit Washington Heights Community Holds Safety Meeting

September 1, 2011 7:36am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

Community leaders and police will meet with Washington Heights residents on Sept. 1, 2011, to discuss rising crime in the neighborhood. (Flickr/Jag9889)

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — With crime on a continued rise in the 34th Precinct, community leaders plan to meet with residents to discuss safety and introduce the precinct's new commanding officer.

Just last week, Inwood residents met with Deputy Inspector Barry Buzzetti, who replaced commanding officer Jose Navarro after he was demoted due to rising crime north of West 179th Street in Washington Heights and Inwood.

The more than 200 residents who attended the Aug. 24 meeting live in the Park Terrace section of Inwood, where a woman was allegedly raped by an off-duty cop days before the meeting.

During that meeting, Inwood residents called for their own precinct to be set up, citing rising crime in the area and limited resources to be dispatched in Inwood, which at its northernmost tip is 30 blocks from the station house.

Thursday’s meeting will give residents from the southern portion of the 34th Precinct a chance to voice concerns as well.

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