I blame global warming. Well, that and meddling from opponents of stop-and-frisk procedures.
It’s heating up out there.
The number of people shot in the city last week jumped nearly 50 percent compared with the same period last year — and a deadly mix of hotter temperatures and fewer stop-and-frisks is to blame, cops said yesterday.
Sixty people were shot in the five boroughs last week — a 46 percent increase over last year’s 41 victims, police said.
And that could just be the beginning, warned one law-enforcement source.
“With less cops, massive retirement looming and violence on the rise in the city, it’s gonna be a long, hot summer,” the source said.
Overall, the total number of shootings this year has hit 802 — a 7.9 percent increase over 743 for the same period last year.
Cops blamed the bloodbath on rising temperatures and increased scrutiny on the controversial stop-and-frisk procedure that proponents say takes dangerous criminals off the street.
“That is a major contributing factor,” one law-enforcement source said of the decrease in stop-and-frisks. “[Street cops] are collectively afraid. It’s because of the political consequences and [Civilian Complaint Review Board] complaints.”
Last week’s heat wave also was blamed for the crime uptick.
“Warm weather means shorter tempers, and the people know that police are doing less stop-and-frisks, so more people carry guns,” said another police source.
In one terrifying day, at least 14 people were shot — including one fatally — in 10 incidents from 11:29 p.m. Thursday until early the next night.
Sorry, JWF, can’t agree that Stop-and-Frisk is to blame, here. The cops should not get to stop me unless they have actual reasonable suspicion to believe that I am committing a crime. Last I checked, walking from my apartment to the store (at least in NYC) should not count.
Stop-and-Frisk pretty clearly violates the 4th Amendment, whatever positive benefits its supporters believe it brings.
Yep, no fan at all of Stop-and-Frisk.
Quit going to NYC after Guiliani left. And I always carried, even when in college. Stop and frisk was the deal breaker. Even a hammerless snub nose is fairly easy for trained eye to spot, unless you have a “man (?) purse”. I got a ticket, that I never paid, for a 4″pocket knife that I had clipped inside my jeans pocket. All you could see was the metal clip-on part on the outside of my pocket. While the cop is giving me a ration of..uhm..stuff, I smiled politely w/a .40 under my left armpit! The cop kept the re-pro German Luffwaffe knife, and no I’m not a skin head. It just had a nice gold inlay of “Blood and Glory” in German on it. Sad to lose it, knowing it never made it to the evidence locker. If it had, there’d be a bench warrant for me.
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