Apparently Mayor Mike’s stop and frisk program isn’t very effective at “getting guns of our streets”, but is pretty good at generating marijuana arrests. Gothmist reports:
“… The NYCLU [PDF] looked at last year’s 532,911 stops and found that while the NYPD recovered 729 guns, more than 5,000 people were arrested for marijuana possession …”
As for guns, the NY Times finds:
“… according to court documents, officers found only one gun for every 69 stops in which they cited a “bulge.” And guns were seized in only 0.15 percent of all stops …”
This show that once again gun control does not work as advertised. Don’t count on either Bloomberg or the NYCLU to admit that.