Anna Serrano, police sergeant at the Bushwick Precinct, was ending her presentation to the Bushwick Community Board on November 20. She was telling Bushwick residents about the monthly crime statistics. Rates were going down, except for one category. "Domestic assaults are up," Serrano said. No one commented and she left the meeting.
Digging through Brooklyn statistics on domestic violence shows a worrying trend in Bushwick. Compiling all the data currently available from the NYPD on domestic violence complaints (radio runs, rape complaints and felony assault complaints) shows Bushwick ticks way above Brooklyn averages.