Cops assigned to the NYPD’s new anti-gun unit have their work cut out for them — nearly 30 people were shot in the city over the weekend, according to preliminary statistics.
Through 4 p.m. Sunday, 28 people were shot, two fatally, in 23 different incidents, the statistics show. And it appears a 29th person was shot in the Bronx at 9:20 p.m.
There were also five incidents in which shots were fired but no one was struck, according to the stats. And there were six stabbings, one of them fatal.
Mayor Adams Monday afternoon plans to visit an NYPD public housing command to thank the Neighborhood Safety Unit assigned there.
Last Monday, the new anti-gun unit’s first phase was rolled out, with officers in 25 precincts across the city tasked with one focus — to get weapons off the streets and drive down soaring gun violence that has plagued the city the past two years.
According to citywide crime statistics through March 13, murders have dipped so far this year, to 76 from 82 at the same time last year. But there had been 217 shooting victims by March 13, up 11% from the 196 incidents during the same period last year.
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The mayor and anti-gun unit have their work cut out for themselves! Good luck!
START by rounding up EVERY ONE ON THE GANG MEMBER list…
Nothing is ever said about:
“Black people make up 23 percent of New York’s population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings. …
Whites are 33 percent of the city’s population, but they commit fewer than 2 percent of all shootings…
“These disparities mean that virtually every time that police in New York are called out after a shooting, they are being summoned into minority neighborhoods looking for minority suspects.”
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but commit ~54% of all the murders and ~57% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and ~92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Where is the outrage from “Black Lives Matter” and prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from “Black Lives Matter”, Obama, Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson over the fact that members of their own race are summarily executing each other?
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White police officer was involved?