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Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, a Bronx activist who became the face of last year’s strong community push for living wage jobs at the Kingsbridge Armory, is exploring the possibility of making a run at the state Senate seat occupied by Pedro Espada, Jr.

With the black netting shroud now removed after months of brick pointing work, the exterior of the 52nd Precinct headquarters on Webster Avenue looks relatively fresh and vibrant. The commander’s office, inside the landmarked building, with its new couches and a giant flat-screen TV, also looks refurbished.

"It’s a new look, a new era," says Deputy Inspector John D’Adamo, the office’s new occupant and the precinct’s new commanding officer.

Two cops from the 52nd Precinct have been suspended without pay after a video surfaced of them pounding and kicking a handcuffed suspect after a failed drug bust near the corner of Davidson Avenue and Fordham Road in early January.

A man identified as Victor Anderson, 26, of Brooklyn, was murdered early Saturday morning, Jan. 30, on Dekalb Avenue, just north of Gun Hill Road in the Norwood section of the Bronx.

In this issue, we profile the energetic new commander of the 52nd Precinct, John D’Adamo.

Deputy Inspector D’Adamo is getting off to a good start fighting crime and opening lines of communication with local residents (he has attended several meetings at Community Board 7). If he can take a big bite out of chronic criminal activity like the prostitution on Jerome Avenue and other major problems that have plagued the precinct for years, then he will be a local hero.

D’Adamo tracks crime by placing colored pushpins on a map in his office. This method indicates what kinds of crimes cluster where. He then deploys the appropriate teams to those areas.

It’s a critical tool. If the Police Department released this information to the public, it would be even more useful. The CompStat reports provided to the public only indicate the level of crime precinct-wide. It does not, like the map in D’Adamo’s office, tell you whether a spike in car thefts stems from a problem on your block or a mile away.

We have received stats for particular sectors in the 52nd Precinct, but only after filing repeated Freedom of Information Law requests with NYPD headquarters.

It shouldn’t be this hard.

Every New Yorker has the right to know how prevalent a particular crime is on their block, especially since the NYPD is already collecting this data. Arming residents with this info is like adding a no-cost crime-fighting tool on every block in the precinct.

Now that the dust has settled and everyone is celebrating the wonderful victory over the evil developer who was about to be given such a wonderful resource that we had such great use of – The Kingsbridge Armory – I find myself asking, "What has been lost and what has been gained?"