Former Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said last week that Mayor Bill de Blasio's constraints on the stop-and-frisk strategy of the Bloomberg administration was to blame for the uptick in murders in New York City. Mr. Kelly also attributed the rise in homicides in other cities to a backlash to the killing last year of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
"Murders are up," he said in an interview in conjunction with the release of his memoir. "And if you have a propensity to carry a gun and there's a policy to de-emphasize stop and question and frisk, it's only common sense you'll see more people carrying guns and more crime."
Now all we have to do is wait for the Leftists who populate legal academia to tell us how much more they know about it than the former police commissioner. Not to worry, though -- I'll bet a goodly sum we won't have to wait long.
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