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Illegal guns continue to pour into New York via the Iron Pipeline
The Iron Pipeline
The Iron Pipeline is the term given to how guns are trafficked from the South, where gun laws are lax, along Interstate 95 to New York and other states where the laws are much more strict.
NEW YORK - The guns are here in New York City and they keep coming. 90% of these guns don t come from New York. They come along I-95 they come from states with lax gun laws, New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a recent gun buyback event in Queens.
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AILSA CHANG, HOST: With Memorial Day weekend upon us and the start of summer with it, cities around the country are bracing themselves for more violent crime. Shootings and murders have been up sharply, intensifying the debate over how police should respond or, as NPR s Martin Kaste reports, whether police are even the answer in the aftermath of last summer s protests.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Jeff Asher is a crime analyst who s been collecting murder numbers for cities that post their monthly statistics. And he says in those places, murder is up this year 23.5%. That s over the same period last year.
Gun buyback NY Attorney General s Press Office photo
Last weekend, the city saw nearly 30 shootings resulting in 22 people being shot, according to the NYPD. As the Memorial Day weekend gets underway, community leaders and public officials are turning their attention to gun trafficking.
Among the victims of the recent violence includes an 18-year-old girl shot in the back in the Bronx and a 17-year-old boy shot in Harlem. Police found a victim in Queens who was shot in the stomach and later taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries.
A community in Queens is mourning the shooting death of 18-year-old Joel Lambert who was murdered near his home. A recent high school athlete, Lambert was killed Friday night when a bullet hit him in the throat in Far Rockaway.
An armed New York mayor? Democratic ex-cop plans to ride an anti-crime message to City Hall.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain, is talking tough on crime and might convince Democrats to make him the next mayor of New York.
New York City Mayoral candidate Eric Adams once said he would arm himself if elected mayor a position he modified in an interview with POLITICO. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
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