NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh, the new commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, told Community Board 9 on Tuesday that major crime in the command has continued to fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, we were down in six of the eight major crimes,\u201d McIntosh told the group at Borough Hall. Only grand larceny and rape were up, he noted.<\/p>\n
McIntosh added, \u201cYou go back 20 years, we\u2019ve never been so low in homicides.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that shootings and shooting victims have seen \u201ctremendous reduction,\u201d especially in the 102nd and 106th precincts.<\/p>\n
In 2026 so far, crime in Queens South is down nearly nine percent across the nine precincts, McIntosh said, with increases in only the 101st and 103rd precincts.<\/p>\n
He also took a moment to praise Capt. Pratima Maldonado, the commanding officer of the 102nd Precinct.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s doing tremendously,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Albert Gamarra, the board\u2019s Public Safety Committee chair, asked McIntosh if there is a possibility of keeping \u201cas many [cops] as we can\u201d during the summer months, as the area often sees an uptick in crime during that time. In summer, many officers are relocated to patrol the beach.<\/p>\n
McIntosh said deployment is driven by statistics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf our crime increases, we will get additional resources,\u201d he said. \u201cWe do what we call a mobile force field, and that will be deployed if we see an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Board Chair Sherry Algredo told McIntosh she hopes for more cops to address fireworks during the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s working,\u201d he told Algredo of the holiday. \u201cWe give a lot of resources. We have a dedicated 311 car. … Can we catch everybody? Probably not, but there is a large footprint on the Fourth of July.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh, the new commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South, told Community Board 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[51014,49196,9,24,63,103,18850,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-131342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-christopher-mcintosh","9":"tag-community-board-9","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nypd","14":"tag-patrol-borough-queens-south","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}