No where with people is safe is a saying that everyone should keep in mind. Wrong place wrong time, you get it.
But brooklyn is not what it use to be, jesus back then crossing the williamsburg bridge/delancey would be a sight you don't want to remember. My family use to bid for properties owned by the city in bk where the lien is more than the value of the property itself, that was how bad it was. If anyone said they miss the old BK you can easily relive it by moving next to a garbage dump, which was what bk was back then.