"We are not here to be inhumane," said Precinct 1 Commissioner Margie Gonzalez.
The gun court will work closely with the Police Department, which will begin a special training program to gather information about guns and improve the quality of gun arrests and the cases that grow out of them in five central Brooklyn precincts, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
He was brought on Tuesday night to the 7th Precinct station, where Commissioner James P. O'Neill happened to be attending a community council meeting.
Robinson, a former stay-at-home mom who's running for Wichita County Commissioner Precinct 4, had started picking up shifts at Starbucks to help offset her $150-a-week child care bill.
At that point, a patrol car from the 40th Precinct pulled up, the commissioner said.
City Councilman Andy L. King, whose district covers the precinct, said he expected Commissioner O'Neill "to do right by this case" and fire Officer Haste.
The officers at the 72d Precinct, empowered by Police Commissioner William J. Bratton's strategy of returning wide-ranging enforcement authority back to the precincts, have become more aggressive and effective.
He is the son of Sydney Marovitz, an attorney, longtime Democratic precinct captain and Park District commissioner, appointed by Richard J. Daley.
He persuaded Mr. Bratton to have weekly meetings during which Mr. Maple and other commissioners debriefed precinct, narcotics and squad commanders, a system that became known as Compstat.
One of the commissioners at precinct #2390, Valentina Remezova, a blonde woman in her fifties, was offended by the very idea of observers: she clasped her hands to her chest and exclaimed, "I don't understand this.
