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NYC mayor says he will reinstitute modified plainclothes police anti-gun unit
Thehill ^ | 01/23/2021 | Mychael Schnell

Posted on 01/23/2022 8:45:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Sunday said he is planning to reinstitute a modified plainclothes anti-gun unit after a police officer was fatally shot while responding to a 911 call in Harlem.

Asked by co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” about steps Adams is taking to make the city “more safe immediately,” the mayor said the Big Apple is going to restore a “newer version” of a modified plainclothes anti-tun unit.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; mayor; newyork; plainclothes; police
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What the hell is a anti gun unit
1 posted on 01/23/2022 8:45:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Criminals are running rampant.
Best strategy: Dis-arm more citizens.


2 posted on 01/23/2022 8:49:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something?" I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will he go after gangs? Or law abiding citizens?


3 posted on 01/23/2022 8:49:20 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe it goes around releasing violent felons, so as to increase the number of firearms homicides each week, thereby increasing the public’s support for new anti-gun measures.


4 posted on 01/23/2022 8:50:23 AM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know of three anti gun units: the WH, Pelosi’s House of Rep. and the US Senate.


5 posted on 01/23/2022 8:52:27 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too late, besides cops would have to be insane to put themselves between armed felons and this current Soros DA. Enjoy the suck, NYC!


6 posted on 01/23/2022 8:53:22 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How about sending the police to go arrest DeBlasio’s wife to get back the $780 Million tax payer dollars she stole?
7 posted on 01/23/2022 8:54:27 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What were the Yawkers thinking when they elected this clown?


8 posted on 01/23/2022 8:57:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anything to avoid saying that the problem is the thugs who shoot the guns. Nothing is being done to them.

And, btw, if somehow guns disappear, the thugs will use other means. The UK has virtually no guns in private hands, so the killers have simply gone to knives, explosives, good old clubs, etc.

The problem is the people, not the implement they use to kill. Granted, they can kill more in one swoop with guns, but they’re still going to be killers no matter what. Heck, they can shove people down on the streets, push them under trains...whatever. They can kill and nobody is stopping them.

That’s what’s got to end - now.


9 posted on 01/23/2022 9:03:07 AM PST by livius
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Modified? Plain clothes upper body; uniform lower body? Uniform upper body; plain clothes lower?


10 posted on 01/23/2022 9:12:16 AM PST by Salvey
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Probably a unit that responds to gunshot location devices.


11 posted on 01/23/2022 9:15:11 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, though and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Will he go after gangs? Or law abiding citizens?

Neither. This is nothing more than smoke and mirrors, to give some appearance that something is being done. Even if arrested by the police, gangsters are unlikely to be prosecuted by the DA. (Very few law-abiding citizens of New York City own firearms. Many if not most of the law abiding NYC citizens who see the need to own firearms have already moved to free states.)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg doubles down on soft-on-crime staff memo

The city is (IMO) doomed. Like Rome in the year AD 190, things may look bad now, but the "interesting times" are just beginning.

12 posted on 01/23/2022 9:18:00 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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“What the hell is a anti gun unit”

Fakery while criminals run rampant.


13 posted on 01/23/2022 9:26:52 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anti crime unit I believe it was called. They go out and actively look for people who profile out as likely gun toters.


14 posted on 01/23/2022 9:37:15 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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Pre dissolution of the unit it worked very well. It in a over experienced cops who knew what to look for. Good luck getting them out there now though…


15 posted on 01/23/2022 9:41:48 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: gundog
It used to be called the Street-Crime Unit. But they killed Amadou Diallo so the entire unit was disbanded. Then it was repackaged as the Anti-Crime Unit but the previous Commissioner (and Mayor) caved to pressure and disbanded them as well.

So now it's being repackaged (again) as the Neighborhood Safety Team (I kid you not).

They will drive around in unmarked cars and wear plainclothes. They will look for indications of gun-carrying and make arrests for violent felonies.

16 posted on 01/23/2022 9:46:49 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Leftists=create a crisis then blame it on gun owners, unvaxxed and hard working individuals. Gee, where have I heard this before?


17 posted on 01/23/2022 9:47:52 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Salvey
They usually wear jeans and hoodies. Some guys prefer to wear jerseys but I think it makes them too easy to ID.

"Yo, Tom Brady over there is a cop."

18 posted on 01/23/2022 9:49:55 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: livius

“The UK has virtually no guns in private hands, so the killers have simply gone to knives, explosives, good old clubs, etc.”

I like to point out the almost-forgotten historical fact that murder predates the invention of gunpowder, even the invention of knives.


19 posted on 01/23/2022 9:54:05 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

eric,how about an anti-gang unit? ... Denver did that decades ago, and caught and convicted the top gang leaders (all recently arrived after being kicked out of California) for murder and incarcerated the lot with life sentences ... the rest of the lot learnt their lesson, and there’s been no wanton gang warfare since ...


20 posted on 01/23/2022 10:23:31 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science ...)
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