The Crime Commission has launched a new public service campaign to fight illegal gun crime. The campaign, with the tag line GUNS=PRISON, highlights the new 3 1/2 year prison sentence for carrying an illegal loaded handgun in New York. The poster advertisements will be displayed across the city on phone kiosks, in buses and subways, in restaurants, bars, and nightclubs and on billboards. For more about the campaign, click here.
The Citizens Crime Commission of New York City is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization working to reduce crime and to improve the criminal justice system in the community. The Commission played a significant role in developing the crime-fighting policies that led to New York's historic recent reduction in crime. More recently, the commission has successfully supported the greater use of DNA evidence in crime fighting, brought attention to the dangers inherent in the rise of juvenile crime, developed interventions against gun violence and highlighted the changing nature of the threat of terrorism. [read more]				Dear Concerned Citizens, Welcome to the online home of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City. I hope you will find this website to be a valuable resource for information about the commission, its history, and about our efforts to improve the law enforcement and criminal justice system in our community. From the Commission's perspective, it's a crucial—and an especially interesting—time in the law enforcement sector, both in New York and nationwide, for a number of reasons. [read more]
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