DA Ken Thompson talks guns, gangs and the wrongfully convicted at Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting
Also discusses crime near Brooklyn Bridge Park, gang shooting in DUMBO
Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, a former Brooklyn Heights resident, was the featured speaker at the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) Annual Meeting Wednesday night at St. Francis College.
Thompson, who heads the largest DA’s office in the city and arguably the third-largest in the country, described his groundbreaking work in the exoneration of wrongfully convicted individuals, stopping the flow of guns into the city, and keeping gang members off the streets.
He also discussed crime in and around Brooklyn Bridge Park, and a gang shooting in DUMBO.