Sentences with phrase «gun crime»

We found that judges do not hand down mandatory minimum sentences in the majority of gun crime cases.

During that show, the host mentioned gun crimes in inner cities.

The plan would also sharply increase sentences for gun crimes, create new employer outreach programs in poor areas and increase funding for religious charities.

The prime minister has promised that the government will respond to police calls for a tougher stance on gun crime.

The former home secretary has backed calls for more stop and search crime prevention tactics to be used to deal with gun crime.

If street checks were so important to solving gun crime, then maybe the police would have tried to do it more than seven times.

It has been estimated that gun crimes cost taxpayers over $ 10 billion a year.

The program is also aimed at sending people convicted of certain gun crimes to federal court, where they face longer sentences in distant prisons.

In some of these areas things have gone back, not forward - youth unemployment is worse, violent gun crime is higher.

Total crimes and specifically gun crimes were reduced as well.

Heavy - handed enforcement and severe penalties for gun crimes and the like are a good start.

Earlier this week, the prime minister said ministers were already examining measures to reduce gun crime, including greater powers for the police.

Skelos says most gun crimes are committed by people illegally possessing guns.

«While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime,» Tenney said.

And look how good Chicago's stifling gun control laws are stopping gun crimes in Chicago... And Detroit....

Incumbent Ken Livingstone, who campaigned against gun crime in south London yesterday, said Mr Johnson's voting record showed he could not be trusted to deal with these issues.

Today's research was released at the start of the Police Federation's annual conference, and chairwoman Jan Berry said they revealed the need for more firearms officers to deal with the increasing number of gun crimes reported each year.

Black Americans aged between 15 and 34 are more likely to die from gun crime than from anything else.

There are very tough anti-gun laws in some cities and jurisdictions, and those cities and jurisdictions also have high gun crime rates.

They are all as horrified as «non-gun-literate» city people by gun crimes, but they don't want you taking away their lawful right to own and use a tool because crazy people do crazy things with tools.

«Generally I feel the judiciary are supportive about what we are trying to do about gun crime and we have seen some excellent sentences which send out the right message.

Sheriff Howard advocates that legislators focus their attention on the people who commit gun crimes rather than on guns — a test that the SAFE law fails miserably.

Support for the law came mainly from downstate urban areas where gun crime is a big problem and opposition from rural regions where responsible gun ownership is the norm, Little said.

In the broadest of strokes, rural gun owners resented it, while urbanites who feared gun crime approved.

Tenney in a statement suggested her comment was being taken out of context, insisting she was talking about the issues surrounding urban gun crimes.

Metropolitan police figures reveal an increase in gun crime incidents across London of nearly nine per cent.

Operation Trident is the Met's effort to tackle black - on - black gun violence in the capital, where highly - publicised cases have sparked fear of gun crime across the UK.

Likewise, most mainstream media organizations say that while gun crime clearly still exists in the U.K., gun control itself has been a success — the Economist recently pointed to an instance where two gangs in the city of Birmingham were forced to use the same gun in a turf war, rented from a third party, as they either couldn't find a gun to buy or couldn't afford inflated black market prices.

While many push an «assault weapons» ban as a solution to gun crime Vox points out that empirical evidence does not support the push.

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I preached about the proliferation of violence which is at the root of more than just gun crimes.

Ministers must change the law to guarantee witnesses of gun crime anonymity, senior police officers have said.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said violent, and in particular gun crime, is «still far higher» than ten years ago.

«My chief officer colleagues and I have been invited by the home secretary Jacqui Smith to undertake some urgent work building on recent successes to identify what additional progress we can make to work more effectively across all government agencies and with both statutory and non-statutory organisations, around tackling gang related gun crime and the supply of guns.»

The police claim the plan is aimed at making people feel safer in areas currently affected by gang violence and is a response to the 17 per cent rise in gun crime over the past six months.

The full gun crime statistics for 2007 will be published at the end of the month and will include some of the 27 teenagers murdered by guns or knives in London last year.

Goe to show you he is toltally ignorant of the fact that legal, law abiding gun owners are a deterent to many gun crimes.

«The gun industry and its allies often attempt to block research and data - gathering on gun violence, but analysis like this can both demonstrate the life - saving effectiveness of sensible gun laws, and also help us prevent gun crimes and solve them when they occur.

Britain's youngest victim of gun crime went into cardiac arrest twice before being rushed to hospital after the incident in 2011.

This suggests that the link between gun crime and gun ownership is more tenuous than knee - jerk reactions take for granted.

Isn't a justified liberal response to this that if you have evidence that gun liberalisation in your society would lead to more not less gun crime, than gun control is a legitimate liberal response?

Local officials and community activists celebrated Dr. King's birthday with calls to end gun crime.

«That is why we set up the Tackling Gangs Action Programme last year to focus on gun and gang violence in the four cities where over half of gun crime occurs.»

Andrew Cuomo doesn't want to answer tough questions but the fact remains gun crime has increased in the major cities since his overnight passing of this ill thought law.

When Dicker mentioned gun crimes in urban areas, Tenney said of the gun control debate that «there's a lot of politics in it.»

[21] The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said that the planned arrest was part of Operation Trident, which at that time investigated gun crime within the black community.