TRIAL ZONES
Brooklyn is divided into 23 police precincts, each with its own commander and community precinct council. To better serve these diverse communities, the office is divided into five trial zones. Each zone encompasses four or five police precincts within a specified geographic area, and is distinguishable by a color-coded designation: Red, Blue, Grey, Green, and Orange. This approach enhances communication between Bureau Chiefs, Precinct Commanders and community leaders, thereby aiding law enforcement in establishing priorities for reducing criminal activity.
Assistant district attorneys within each zone handle a full range of offenses from violations and misdemeanors to drug sales, assaults, burglaries, robberies, and attempted murder. They present felony cases to the Grand Jury for indictment and then prosecute those cases in Brooklyn’s Supreme Court through disposition.
Recent Press Releases:
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- Queens Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Punching and Pushing 77-Year-Old Stranger onto Tracks at Atlantic Terminal
- Man Sentenced to 32½ Years to Life in Prison for Murder of Brooklyn Philanthropist in his Fort Greene Home
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison for Killing Father Defending His Daughter in Crown Heights
- Brooklyn Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Stabbing Two Men in Homeless Shelter and Another in Subway
- Bedford-Stuyvesant Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Ambush Stabbing Death in Tompkins Houses