A year inside the NYPD’s Brooklyn
confront a brutal spike in murders
North command as detectives
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THEO WENNER
THE
HOMICIDE
SQUAD
FEW HOURS after midnight on New
Year’s Eve, 29-year-old Tyleek White
was shot in a narrow hallway lined
with Christmas lights in the Louis
H. Pink Houses in East New York, Brook-
lyn. He was the first person murdered in
New York City in 2019. The homicide ended
a four-month period in which no one was
killed in the 75th Precinct, one of 10 under70 / ROLLING STONE / JULY 2019