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Man Arrested on M Train for Carrying… A Nerf Gun

BUSHWICK/BED-STUY — A man was arrested Thursday for criminal possession of a weapon on an M train. An IGTV video originally posted by the Instagram account @harley_punxx [https://www.instagram.com/harley_punxx/] shows close to a dozen police officers flooding the platform and train car, which was stopped

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After 1,524 Stop-And-Frisks, Not A Single Gun Found In Marlboro Projects

WNYC created a map that points to the number of stop-and-frisks in relation to the number of gun seizures and numbers don’t quite seem to add up. WNYC [http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/jul/16/wnyc-map-police-find-guns-where-they-stop-and-frisk-less/] “located all the ‘hot spots’ where stop and frisks are concentrated