Bullsh!t. Everyone knows why there are so many more guns on the street, but nobody has the b@lls to say it.
The increase in gun-related crime in New York City coincides with the end of New Jersey State Police random stops on the New Jersey Turnpike -- we can't have any of that racial profiling, now.
You're going to see more that here now too. CYA is becoming the force's new motto. We now have a federal judge and a liberal group overseeing our statistics regarding who we "stop, question and frisk". If you stop a lot of people of a certain background its going to be thrown in your face when you get sued while the city does anything it can to weasel out of defending you in court.