Why you can, and should, become a local neighborhood crime fighter.
Public safety is the highest priority for NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch.
Two grown men — one clad in a business suit the other in a blue uniform — both strapped into safety harnesses race each other to the top of a rock climbing wall. Parents children and policemen watch with amusement as the two — New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch and a Shomrim volunteer — come back down to earth and shake hands.
The friendly competition was just one of several lures for citizens to attend a Crime Prevention and Safety Day sponsored by Flatbush Shomrim along with a super slide moonwalk ice cream truck pizza raffle and free tours of Shomrim’s emergency vehicle headquarters.
Alongside the fun and games the NYPD engraved bicycles and electronic equipment with serial numbers as part of “Operation ID” an initiative to dissuade theft and left the indelible message that increased vigilance should be the watchword in the wake of the Orlando terror attack.
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