Boro Park Flooded With Police Over Shabbos

Boro Park – Promises made to give Jewish people the feeling of safety were kept over Shabbos, with an army of law enforcement agents flooding Boro Park with patrols, officers on horseback and cruisers.

State troopers were keeping an eye on the lower avenues, virtually every shul had a police cruiser in front with the lights flashing, and some officers even came inside shuls to assure mispallelim that they were safe.

The beefed up security comes amid a record rise in anti-Semitic violence against Jews, with three attacks resulting in deaths or grievous injuries.

Cruisers were spotted in front of shuls. State troopers on horseback were seen patrolling on 13th and 15th avenues. In at least one shul, an officer requested permission from the gabbai to make an announcement during krias HaTorah.

“Two officers came in between two aliyos,” a resident told boropark24.com, “and according to a psak from the dayan went up to the aron kodesh and spoke for a minute. He said that the Jewish community could be calm when they go to shul or come to shul or when they’re at shul. He said we should know that the NYPD is out there and everything is safe.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio visited Boro Park on Thursday to reassure the community and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Williamsburg on Wednesday.