But when reported through an e-mail newsletter to more than 500 households, the crimes seemed to represent a backslide into Flatbush's past as a crime-heavy neighborhood.
Booker used the incident to launch Community Eye, a project that uses high quality security cameras and a gunshot detection system to monitor an eight square mile crime-heavy area of Newark.
We interviewed Mayor Booker in 2008 when he was focusing on fighting crime in Newark via high quality security cameras and a gunshot detection system to monitor an eight square mile crime-heavy area of Newark.
"It's pretty detrimental to society when we reinforce the idea that poor or crime-heavy areas are places to be categorically avoided or shamed," David Holmes wrote on PandoDaily.
One middle-aged couple are chastised for the ultimate swimming-pool crime of "heavy petting": a clear message that this is a Polish sanatorium, not a Canary Islands spa.
François claims he was robbing the jewelry store to pay off various debts he had built up from a life of crime and heavy drug use.
Whilst it is impossible to be definite about the proportion of referred youth who might follow a path of juvenile crime or heavy drug use, it is reasonable to conclude that many in the client group display characteristics or come from a background typical of adolescents who pursue such high-risk behaviours.
During the operation, the police had banned all press from the site (a debatable violation of ruling press law, since there weren't any war crimes or heavy fights going on) but we managed to get onto a friend's roof terrace nearby, until the tank came to smash in the gates.
"For decades, we handled all of your drug deals, love affairs, runaways, pimps, crime tips, cranks, heavy breathers, and emergencies.
As for Mr Kaliňák's insistence that high crime demands a heavy hand, Mr Vavrinčík responded: "Still, these people have rights".
