Beleaguered NYPD cops take guns off Brooklyn street, but can’t stop all the shootings & needless death

By artappraiser on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 12:36am |

photo caption: Deputy Inspector Timothy Skretch, commanding officer of Brooklyn's 79th Precinct, discusses plans to fight shootings that plague Bedford-Stuyvesant.

By Rocco Paracandola @ NYDailyNews.com, July 21

Cops in Brooklyn’s 79th Precinct take guns off Bedford-Stuyvesant streets — they tweeted about one nabbed July 12 when “patrol officers observed and arrested an individual without incident” carrying a loaded pistol and four more guns they found in the week leading up to July 14.

But shootings are still up in the neighborhood. On July 12, the day cops snatched that loaded pistol, 1-year-old Davell Gardiner died when a stray gunfire hit him at a family cookout.

And then there are days like Monday [....]

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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-20200721-omgswahvcjafrp6427ix5klzna-story.html