Community leaders in Queens are pleading with the NYPD to extend the 'Operation Restore Roosevelt' crackdown on crime along Roosevelt Avenue, citing ongoing issues with prostitution and unlicensed vendors despite the operation's near conclusion.
Community leaders in Queens are urging the NYPD to extend its three-month crime crackdown along Roosevelt Avenue. They say the situation remains dire even as the special operation, involving state police, is set to conclude next week. CBS News New York has been reporting on this problem for months. Since October, state police and the NYPD have increased enforcement along Roosevelt from 74th Street to 111th Street as part of ' Operation Restore Roosevelt .
' A command post has been established in the heart of the operation, and there have been raids on brothels and unlicensed vendors. A week before the crackdown is scheduled to end, community leaders have written a letter to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, alerting her to 14 alleged brothels that are still operating. 'This is unacceptable,' said Ramon Ramirez-Baez of Let's Improve Roosevelt Avenue. 'We have a school over here - PS 89,' said community leader Ramses Frias. 'There is a brothel two blocks away from there.' 'The initiative has fallen short,' said 35th Assembly District leader Hiram Monserrate. 'We think it's outrageous this is still occurring with the amount of resources placed here... there are streetwalkers one block away, on 83rd. They are so brazen that they are there in broad daylight.' CBS News New York brought those concerns to the NYPD. 'How do you explain why are they still seeing these women out there?' Rozner asked. 'That's a very good question. So we have our vice team. We have our undercovers in the area,' NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said. 'We're developing other ways to get inside location and get the sale, so we can get in there and shut the place down.' There are also cameras along Roosevelt Avenue that are monitored inside the NYPD's command center, and Daughtry says if they see suspicious activity, they alert officers on the ground
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