Seth Barron: NYC Has Strict Gun Laws But If a Criminal Is Arrested Today with an Illegal Gun, Your Prosecution Gets Deferred

RUSH EXCERPT:

BARRON: “Part of it happen through criminal justice reform over the last year or two, there has been a steady decriminalization first of public order crimes like public, sleeping in the parks, and steadily it has gotten worse and worse. They rolled back and instituted bail reform so you can’t detain people pretrial. The prosecutors in New York City now divert a lot of gun charges. New York City is supposed to have very strict gun laws and it does if you are a law-abiding person and you want to get a gun, that’s tough. But if you are arrested and illegally have one, they usually defer your prosecution and put you into some kind of nonjail type of rehabilitative program. So all of these things have contributed to this new environment of essentially. Like you said we seem shootings and stabbings, crime, even when the Subway is up but nobody is writing the subways.”