RESET: Bedford-Stuyvesant

Reaching Out to Kids To Improve Relationships with Police

A "conversation" on police-community relations in Bedford-Stuyvesant was mostly constrained to questions on note-cards.  Sep 30, 2014

Spotlight on Safety in Public Housing

A summer safety program at Bed-Stuy's Tompkins Houses shows just how tough crime-fighting can be. Fifteen housing projects account for almost 20 percent of all violent crime in the city. Sep 25, 2014

Old Cops Teach New Picks

As shootings spike this summer, hundreds of rookies have been paired with veteran cops in some of the city's busiest precincts — the vanguard of a new, community-friendly philosophy in the NYPD.

Jul 21, 2014

Blocking the School-to-Prison Pipeline

The city's harsh school discipline code is enforced by safety agents who work for the police department — and exacerbates tensions between police and the community they serve.

Jun 17, 2014

One Mother, an Anti-Violence Expert and a Recipe to Lower the Body Count

Brunilda Rivera has been on a mission to keep her 17-year-old son safe, ever since he was assaulted in a nearby park in February.

May 12, 2014

Bed-Stuy Residents React to #MyNYPD Twitter Fail

When the city's police department asked Twitter users to post pictures of themselves with officers — and instead of posting smiling tourist pictures, users tweeted out photos of polic... Apr 24, 2014

Can This Relationship Be Saved?

As the de Blasio administration attempts to reset the troubled relationship between police and communities of color, WNYC measures the progress in one neighborhood in central Brooklyn.

Apr 9, 2014