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NYPD brass have demanded that three commanding officers explain at next week’s CompStat meetings why shootings are on the rise in their precincts, The Post has learned.
The 46th, 67th and 103rd precincts — University Heights in The Bronx, East Flatbush in Brooklyn and Jamaica in Queens, respectively — have some of the most significant spikes in violent crimes in the city, a source said.
The “commanding officers will get yelled at,” a law-enforcement source with knowledge of the meetings said yesterday.
The CompStat summonses come a day after The Post reported that the number of people shot last week increased 46 percent when compared to the same period last year — which some police sources blamed on the heat wave and fewer stop-and-frisks.
“If you have a large uptick in shootings during the last 28 days or for the past year, then you get called down. They’re going to want to know why that is and what you’re doing about it,” a law-enforcement source said.
“If you don’t come prepared, then it’s like a firing squad. If you don’t have the answers, then it gets real tense. They jump on that.”
At the 46th Precinct, the number of shooting victims has reached 30 so far this year, compared with last year’s 14. Shooting incidents have more than doubled to 25 in 2012, in contrast with 12 in 2011.
In the last 28 days, the University Heights precinct has seen six shooting incidents leaving eight victims — compared to only two victims for the same period last year.
And in Brooklyn, cops at the 67th Precinct have reported three shooting incidents in the last week, compared to none for the same period last year.
NYPD brass “are concerned about the increase in shootings, and they’re afraid, with the summer just starting, that it could get out of hand if they don’t do something now,” a source said of the decision to call in the commanding officers.
With numbers on the rise, more commanding officers can expect to be called in to explain any violent spikes, a source said.
“That happens to all precincts,” the source said. “Those three might have had spikes in violent crime during a 28-day period or more, but it is normal.”