{"id":398259,"date":"2022-01-24T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hochul-to-convene-illegal-guns-task-force-after-nypd-killing\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T03:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:02:00","slug":"hochul-to-convene-illegal-guns-task-force-after-nypd-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hochul-to-convene-illegal-guns-task-force-after-nypd-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hochul to convene illegal guns task force after NYPD killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hochul to convene illegal guns task force after NYPD killing<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that her office\u2019s newly formed task force targeting illegal guns will meet for the first time Wednesday \u2014 days after a rookie NYPD cop was killed and another officer critically wounded with a stolen firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a moral obligation to do everything we can to fight the scourge of\u00a0illegal\u00a0guns on our streets,\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Hochul\u00a0said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cToo many lives have been lost because of\u00a0illegal\u00a0firearms that should never have been on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns, which is being created in partnership with the NYPD and Mayor Eric Adams, was first announced at the governor\u2019s State of the State address.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will convene law-enforcement officials from across New York to \u201cshare intelligence and strategies\u201d that can stop the trafficking of illegal guns, officials said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"An illegal gun that was recovered after an attempted armed robbery.\" class=\"wp-image-20938932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The new state task force will also convene with neighboring states as well as Ohio, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said it will work with neighboring states as well as Ohio, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire to figure out where the guns are coming from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s task force found new urgency after last week, when rookie Officer Jason Rivera, 22, was\u00a0fatally gunned down during a domestic call\u00a0Friday in Harlem. His police partner Wilbert Mora, 27, continued to fight for his life at NYU Langone hospital Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources told the Post that suspect Lashawn McNeil used an illegal Glock handgun with a \u201chigh-capacity magazine\u201d to shoot the two officers\u00a0and had a loaded AR-type weapon stashed under his bed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Dozens of guns of different types are laid on a table.\" class=\"wp-image-20938941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York State police recovered more than 1,070 illegal guns in 2020, most of which came from the south.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Queens DA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hochul asked for $9 million in the new budget for New York State Police to expand and hire new recruits and gun-tracing analysts. She said she\u2019ll give the state police $4 million to buy software that will track illegal guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,070 illegal guns were recovered last year, the state police said, and stats from the NYPD show that many of the illegal weapons come from the South, particularly Georgia,\u00a0South Carolina\u00a0and Florida.\u00a0\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Kathy Hochul announced Sunday that her office\u2019s newly formed task force targeting illegal guns will meet for the first time Wednesday \u2014 days after a rookie NYPD cop was killed and another officer critically wounded with a stolen firearm. \u201cWe have a moral obligation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-illegal-guns5.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[124675,4998,61625,98806,5044],"class_list":["post-398259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-23-22","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}