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Slashings and stabbings are up 20 percent in 2016, while overall crime is at a record low, stats show.

The NYPD will increase its scrutiny of stabbings and slashings in the coming weeks.

Prosecutors indicted 18 alleged gang members in connection with several shootings across Brooklyn.

Only 30 people were shot in the 81st Precinct in 2015, 14 less than in the previous year, police said.

Project Fast Track will create a new NYPD division and Brooklyn gun court. 

Last year the precinct had eight more shootings than they did in 2014, according to NYPD data.

There were 350 homicides in 2015 compared with 333 in 2014, officials said Monday. 

Pergola hasn't renewed a permit allowing it to operate as a food and drinking spot since July 2014.

Nearly two dozen suspected gang members were arrested as part of a massive takedown Wednesday morning.

A 24-year-old single mom was shot outside of the Flatiron club in October.

The 13th Precinct and Community Board 5 will hear safety concerns at a community meeting on Tuesday.

There were 21 more homicides this year compared with the same time last year, police said Monday.

Of the 16 shootings so far this year, 13 of them were gang-related, police said.

Lacount "Kojack" Simmons, 39, was killed outside the Ingersoll Houses Sept. 20. 

Investigators say the crew is responsible for several shootings in the area in the past year.