Precinct council meetings are vital to cops policing Park Slope
The unofficial motto of the police department is to protect and to serve, but in order to be properly “served,” Brooklynites should assume an active role in helping their local precinct at precinct community council meetings that are typically held each month.
Deputy Inspector Michael Ameri and Community Council President Pauline Blake run the meetings for the 78th Precinct that serves Park Slope and a large portion of the area surrounding the Barclays Center.
“They’re very enlightening,” deputy inspector Ameri said about the precinct council meetings. “I wouldn’t know what the concerns of the community were if it weren’t for them. I would be in my office and they would be out there complaining about the precinct, quality of life issues, and crime, and I would never be aware of it.