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Having assumed office when violent crime threatened every aspect of the lives of all who lived in our diverse county, Judge Brown sought to solve any problem that the public faced.  Because Queens had long been plagued by stolen car rings and chop shops, Judge Brown prioritized those prosecutions, defying the conventional wisdom that such matters were "victimless crimes," as he devoted untold investigative resources to the fight, and reduced auto thefts from more than 50,000 per year upon taking office to barely more than 1,000 annually at the time of his death.  Sadly, as this is being written, auto theft has again skyrocketed. 

Queens was then one of the world's major hubs for trafficking cocaine and heroin and through the appropriate use of electronic surveillance, enormous quantities of these poisons were seized and countless lives saved by preventing their distribution on our s