With a new commanding officer at the NYPD’s 52nd Precinct, this week we asked readers what are the specific problems and issues the command should focus on.

Well, one problem is the people who are hanging out on the street at nighttime. They drink and play loud music. They come and hang out and lately there’s been some car break-ins here. They come at night and break the windows, but it starts with disorderly conduct. Before, the neighborhood was not like that, so it’s getting a little bit bad. The neighborhood is not that bad; the only issue is the little things like this.
Louie Gonzalez
Norwood

I think he [Commanding Officer, Deputy Inspector Thomas Alps] needs to have his men address having his team of officers get more sociable with the neighborhood; get to know the people that live and work here and establish better relationships. If he could do that, that would be great. I haven’t heard of the [Neighborhood Coordination Offier] program and I haven’t seen them. That would be key. If they did that and had better relations with the people that they’re patrolling, things would be better and people wouldn’t be afraid.
Esther Price
Norwood 

I see a lot of domestic incidents, where people are attacking other people, because they’re drunk or disturbed. I don’t see anyone getting shot out here. I do see graffiti on the walls. I don’t know if it’s a Mexican gang, but there’s a lot of Bloods here. They don’t let people have a way of living, because automatically, they think they own the streets. I’ve got little kids and big kids and I have to worry about them coming in the building. It’s annoying.

Samantha Ortiz
Norwood 

They need to actually put more police officers in the train stations. I don’t see them at all. There’s actually more and more people from the street going up there. Some are homeless and some are on drugs and they just hang out there for hours and smoke cigarettes. They even had to close one of the entrances because they were doing drugs there. They opened it back up, but I don’t see many officers there. It’s at the East 182nd Street station, but it’s now moved up to Fordham Road. Years ago, we never had that here.
Joey Barrios
Fordham Heights

I would like to see the police focus on having people clean up after their dogs. It’s a $500 fine. It is an issue; they say it’s small, but they ticket people all day and make a lot of money ticketing people. They can make a lot of money ticketing people who don’t clean up after their dogs and that can provide revenue to the city. Gangs to me is litter and they should remove them with the trash.
Tasha Chapman
Kingsbridge