“Law enforcement” is happy. They got a conviction, and can boast about how they’re stopping crime.
Reality: they have no intention of taking guns from violent criminals, but are taking them from non-violent individuals.
From later in the article:
According to a 2013 article in the New York Times, not everyone faces prison time for these types of weapons violations. Many caught with a loaded gun in New York’s most crime-stricken neighborhoods actually never see the inside of a jail cell.
As the Times reported, as few as 31 percent of those caught with illegal weapons in the Bronx were imprisoned. The Bronx is New York’s poorest borough by median household income and has one of the highest crime rates in the nation. The predominantly black and Hispanic 16th Congressional district of the South Bronx is also the poorest Congressional District in the nation, with over 52% of residents living below the poverty line. The 16th’s violent crime rate is also among the worst in the nation, but still 69% of gun offenders in the Bronx are not put in jail, according to the Times.
Camp is not expecting to get that pass. The neighborhood where he was arrested, Williamsburg, is a rapidly gentrifying section of Brooklyn dominated by hipsters, would-be artists, and upper middle class white collar workers. Still, the neighborhood fares poorly with overall crime rates. A recent study by DNAInfo ranked Williamsburg 47th safest for per capita crime out of 69 neighborhoods surveyed.