{"id":8488,"date":"2013-05-23T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2013-05-23T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:21:31","slug":"weed-not-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8488","title":{"rendered":"Weed not guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Mayor Mike’s<\/a> stop and frisk program isn’t very effective at “getting guns of our streets”<\/a>, but is pretty good at generating marijuana arrests<\/a>. \u00a0Gothmist reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“…\u00a0The NYCLU [PDF<\/a>] 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 …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As for guns, the NY Times finds<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… according to court documents, officers found only one gun for every 69 stops in which they cited a \u201cbulge.\u201d \u00a0And guns were seized in only 0.15 percent of all stops …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This show that once again gun control does not work as advertised. \u00a0Don’t count on either Bloomberg or the NYCLU<\/a> to admit that.<\/p>\n