Shooting, homicide surge came after ‘reforms’ NY’s leaders said would cut crime

New York Post ^ | January 14, 2021 | Rafael A. Mangual

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In March 2019, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, took a victory lap after the Empire State passed its “red-flag” gun law, meant to facilitate the confiscation of firearms from people deemed a risk to themselves or others.

“Something has to be done, because we are literally losing human life” to gun violence, the governor said.

The measure doesn’t seem to have helped. In 2018, before the red-flag law was enacted, the number of shooting victims in New York City was at its lowest since 2002. Two years later, the city saw almost 1,000 more shootings than the year the red-flag law took effect.

The number of shooting victims in 2020 more than doubled. One would have to go back many decades to have even a chance at finding a year in which the city’s gun violence rose so dramatically.

John Jay College professor Peter Moskos, a national expert on policing and criminal justice, has produced a striking graphic ­depiction of New York’s shooting increase, showing an ominously steep-looking spike for 2020 that utterly dwarfs the minor increases of previous years.

The spike in shooting victims drove a 41 percent year-over-year increase in the city’s homicides in 2020, which jumped to 462. That increase could easily have been higher, given the number of shooting victims.

Gotham hasn’t seen a single-year homicide spike even close to this number since the late 1960s. Over the next 25 years, murders regularly surpassed 1,000 annually, peaking in 1990 at 2,245.

When the governor celebrated the passage of the red-flag law, he invoked mass shootings of the sort seen at Sandy Hook and Parkland. But those kinds of mass killings, perpetrated by mentally deranged individuals, are relatively rare and do not reflect the reality of New York’s homicide problem

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Golly! I don’t know about you, but I am gob smacked. Gob smacked I tells ya!

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A New York State Democrat Legislator wants to outlaw owning body armor:

NY Bill Would Outlaw Sale, Possession of Body Armor

The New York State Legislature is ruled by Democrats. Since they want to defund the police, why don't they just issue bullet-proof vests to all the crooks, so the cops can't shoot them when they're breaking the law. In the State of Chaos, it makes perfect sense.

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Gee, that’s too bad.