Because I noticed that Google has removed ratings for precincts, which I find highly counterintuitive to helping a community improve, I decided to rewrite my review.
In 2019, I was followed into my building and touched by an unknown man. The following day, I went to this precinct to file a police report. However, after explaining to the police officer my experience, she told my mother and I that because he didn't "touch me aggressively enough", they could not proceed with a police report. She suggested that I instead get involved with my district meetings and gave me an email address that didn't even work when I got home. I found the way that they handled my case extremely careless and disgusting.
I then called the police again and was able to proceed with a police report with another officer who then got me into contact with their unit for victims of sexual assault. I was interviewed about what happened with a very kind detective and finally saw a flyer posted about the forcible touching incident that happened to me.
While I am grateful that I was able to get to speak to a detective and have someone look into this, I am very disappointed in the way the first officer handled my report. Being a woman herself, she should know how dangerous it is to us and she didn't even offer the slightest bit of help or effort in a case that clearly was forcible touching. The precinct needs to better train their other officers to improve the way they handle victims of sexual assault of any degree. I hope the precinct has taken measures to educate their officers as the Bronx has some of the highest cases of SA. How do you expect to keep women in the Bronx safe when this was my experience? Why do we have to jump through hoops just to be heard? read more