Prosecutor: Biggest Gang Takedown in NYC History Helps Make the City 'Free of Guns'

Nick Kangadis | April 28, 2016
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In what can only compare to a Commissioner Gordon takedown in a Batman movie, law enforcement in New York City conducted the biggest gang takedown in the city’s history on Wednesday.

A 16-month investigation into a rise in violent crime in New York resulted in charges being brought against 120 violent gang members. There were an astounding 88 arrests made.

ABC News reported that almost 700 NYPD officers and federal agents conducted “pre-dawn raids” using armored trucks and helicopters to apprehend members of two rival gangs. Members ranged from the top of the food chain all the way to the bottom of the totem pole.

The two rival gangs have some really scary sounding names: 2Fly YGz and Big Money Bosses.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara took a little time to gloat, saying, “We bring these charges so that all New Yorkers, including those in public housing, can live their lives as they deserve: free of drugs, free of guns and free of gang violence.”

The problem with her statement is that people in high crime areas will never be free of guns, because as we all know, criminals do not register their weapons.

Three years ago New York City had the biggest gun bust in the history of the city when the NYPD confiscated 254 guns in a single day.

Three years later and here we are again, but it’s probably only a coincidence that New York would be experiencing a rise in crime with liberal progressive Mayor Bill de Blasio in office.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said this about de Blasio in December of 2014: “His ideology tells him, ‘Police are bad, they cause the problems, I have to warn my son about the police.'”

That comment from Giuliani came after this comment from de Blasio himself to ABC just a week earlier: “What parents have done for decades who have children of color, especially young men of color, is train them to be very careful when they have...an encounter with a police officer.”

In a state where the leaders are ultra-liberals such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo (in office since 2011) and de Blasio, it’s no wonder that all of these huge takedowns of criminals and weapons keep occurring.

Despite the admitted rise in high-crime, the NYPD boasted its lowest overall crime rate in modern history in 2015. But could that be because current leadership in New York has discouraged police from confronting criminals?

From the New York Times:

At the same time, arrests recorded by officers fell steeply, to 333,115 through Dec. 20, down 13 percent from 384,770 over the same period the year before. The number of criminal summonses dropped to 292,372 from 358,948.

Major congrats go to Bharara and the brave law enforcement that conducted this operation to take violent gang members off the street. But as long as New York leadership’s ideology and damaging rhetoric continue to abound, there will always be a “biggest takedown in NYC history.”

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