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In pockets all over the five boroughs the gangs of New York — some with members as young as 10 — are behind the triggers of half the city’s shootings.
And the flesh-piercing bullets fired by gangbangers accounted for a staggering proportion of murders in 2015. Of the 324 homicides through Dec. 6, police say gang members are responsible for about 130, or 40% of the killings — a troubling increase when compared with prior years.
Perhaps the most disturbing dose of reality behind the numbers is that many of the shootings were sparked by insignificant slights or the misguided notion that shooting someone will turn a boy into a man.
“It’s a fearsome reality: violence for its own sake,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the Daily News. “The gun has come to define manhood for these young men, and the willingness to use it has become a rite of passage.”
The city’s top cop added that most of the violence tied to street gangs or crews is the result of petty disagreements rather than disputes over drugs or money.
Killings by gangs or crews — smaller groups of young men who claim just one or two blocks as their turf — are expected to be slightly higher this year than in 2014, although cops were still tallying the numbers, police sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ent-shootings-new-york-city-article-1.2464740
Good thing the ACLU stopped the cops from stop & frisk, otherwise we would have more minorities walking around New York.
And the flesh-piercing bullets fired by gangbangers accounted for a staggering proportion of murders in 2015. Of the 324 homicides through Dec. 6, police say gang members are responsible for about 130, or 40% of the killings — a troubling increase when compared with prior years.
Perhaps the most disturbing dose of reality behind the numbers is that many of the shootings were sparked by insignificant slights or the misguided notion that shooting someone will turn a boy into a man.
“It’s a fearsome reality: violence for its own sake,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the Daily News. “The gun has come to define manhood for these young men, and the willingness to use it has become a rite of passage.”
The city’s top cop added that most of the violence tied to street gangs or crews is the result of petty disagreements rather than disputes over drugs or money.
Killings by gangs or crews — smaller groups of young men who claim just one or two blocks as their turf — are expected to be slightly higher this year than in 2014, although cops were still tallying the numbers, police sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ent-shootings-new-york-city-article-1.2464740
Good thing the ACLU stopped the cops from stop & frisk, otherwise we would have more minorities walking around New York.