How to Stop New York City Street Crime

By Robert Farago

“Twenty years ago, I had the honor of observing one of the finest outfits the American police ever fielded in action: the NYPD citywide street-crime unit (SCU),” Thomas A. Reppetto writes at nypost.com. “It was a relatively small group of 100 to 150 carefully selected officers with outstanding records, who prowled the city looking for those carrying guns. And it’s a model of how the city can deal with rising gun crime without flooding the streets with additional cops or restoring stop-and-frisk.” Bring back the SCU the past president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City and a former commander of detectives in the Chicago Police Department! Yes, well, about that it not being “stop-and-frisk” . . .

The unit made a virtual anthropological study of street criminals. They discovered that unlike many legal gun-carriers, they didn’t generally use holsters, but instead stuck the gun in their waistbands.

Because they constantly worried about the gun falling out, they’d walk in an unusual fashion. Thus the gun-hunters looked for the subtle signs of behavior that would have escaped the notice of a regular police officer (or civilians).

If they spotted a suspected gunman, they wouldn’t jump out of their …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns