An elderly man was slashed and his sandals were taken in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.
How the precinct-wide figures compare
Bedford-Stuyvesant is within the area served by the NYPD’s 79th Precinct, which covers a northern portion of Brooklyn, the department says. NYPD CompStat’s historical table lists 197 robbery complaints in that precinct in 2025, compared with 636 in 2001—a 69% decrease across those years, according to the NYPD data.
That comparison is precinct-wide and spans 24 years; it does not show the pattern in every intervening year, describe risk for a particular person or explain this attack. The figures therefore provide broad historical context, not evidence about why the Bed-Stuy incident happened.
