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TricklessMagic -> RE: Chicago and gun laws (5/28/2013 6:43:55 AM)
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When it come to NYC there is a number of factors in play. The first one is good policing in all fairness. The police started targeted hot spots where crime was a known problem. More cops on patrol equals less criminals committing crime. Then you have the rampant stop-and-frisk of certain individuals that match certain criteria. These individuals tend to make up the numbers behind the commission of crimes, look at the DOJ reports and you'll see what I mean. So they're getting guns out of the hands of criminals, because very few citizens can legally own and carry firearms without bribing the local politicians, which helps reduce shootings.
Then there is the end of the crack epidemic which caused NYC to have a murder rate over 2,000 in 1990 at its peak. Then you have the gentrification of many parts of the five boroughs. Public housing is getting shut down due to low budgets for it and the buildings are being revamped for middle class or upper class families. So let's be real, fewer poor people, means less crime.
NYC also has one of the largest police forces in the U.S. so it can put a lot of boots on the ground in small places very quickly, this helps lower the opportunity for crime immensely because typically more cops means less crime.
The lessons here: get rid of poor enclaves, get more police, and rub down anyone who belongs to the typical demographics for criminal behaviour.
So where do guns come in? Well it's New York City, they are happy to have their rights immensely restricted and infringed upon. The very core of their gun control laws was passed by a syphlitically demented corrupt Democratic politician that bowed to his criminal supporters to help protect criminals from armed law abiding folks, oh and engage in racism against Catholic, Eastern Europeans, and African Americans. Look up the Sullivan Act.
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