{"id":201514,"date":"2026-04-18T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201514\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:54:46","slug":"brooklyn-center-police-seek-block-watch-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201514\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Center Police Seek Block Watch Captains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4:14 PM | Friday, April 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Crime stats from Brooklyn Center Police Department for 2025 show decreases in several categories, according to Chief Garrett Flesland:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/cities\/brooklyn-center-police-seek-block-watch-captains\/attachment\/pd-digital-still\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-199360 follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-199360 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PD-digital-still.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic listing stats from Brooklyn Center Police Department for 2025:&#10;violent crime down 21 percent, incidents with gunfire down more than 40 percent, weapons recovered in calls up 16 percent, robberies overall down 30 percent and home burglaries down 52 percent, and auto thefts down 51 percent.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Flesland said his department in 2025 responded to more than 41,000 incidents.<\/p>\n<p>He also said there are many ways the department is working with residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProud of the fact that we are intentionally trying to be as transparent as possible,\u201d Flesland told CCX Cities. \u201cAny community member can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklyncentermn.gov\/government\/departments\/public-safety\/police\/data-dashboard-477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">hop on that dashboard<\/a> and they can really drive the information they\u2019re looking for specific to their neighborhood, or time frame, or crime type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned the city\u2019s continued build-up of its ranks of block watch captains, a kind of neighborhood watch coalition among residents across as many neighborhoods as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city\/brooklyn-center\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/city_programs\/cities-stories\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Cities Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4:14 PM | Friday, April 17, 2026 Crime stats from Brooklyn Center Police Department for 2025 show decreases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-201514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201514","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=201514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}