Some in NYC are claiming that there weren’t enough stop and frisks which lead to NYC resembling a war zone this past week:
City shot to hell: Gun victims soar 46% for 1-week period
Tuesday, July 03, 2012 8:03:02 AM · by ConservativeStatement · 21 replies
New York Post ^ | July 3, 2012 | LARRY CELONA, JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MACLEOD
It’s heating up out there. The number of people shot in the city last week jumped nearly 50 percent compared with the same period last year — and a deadly mix of hotter temperatures and fewer stop-and-frisks is to blame, cops said yesterday. Sixty people were shot in the five boroughs last week — a 46 percent increase over last year’s 41 victims, police said. And that could just be the beginning, warned one law-enforcement source.
The strict gun laws are working.