An illegal gun case involving a security guard is putting campus safety — and New York’s gun enforcement gaps — under the microscope.
This is New York Reform Report. Today: public safety accountability, the systems that are supposed to stop illegal gun sales, and the reform questions to keep an eye on next.
Let’s get into it.
Absolutely. First up: the Queens and Bronx gun case that’s raising some tough questions.
From AOL:
The security guard for Queens College was caught on camera selling a gun on campus to an undercover cop, officials say. Prosecutors say 29-year-old Ncodjigui Sanogo of Harlem was in his security uniform and on duty outside of Kissena Hall on Kissena Boulevard near 65th Avenue last June, while holding a bag with a gun inside, when he sold it to the undercover officer.
A security guard allegedly selling a gun while on duty, on a college campus — that is wildly brazen. And the undercover piece matters: prosecutors are presenting this as a case where guns were taken out of circulation before summer violence spikes.
You’ll find links to every story we covered today in the show notes. If one of them stuck with you, take a minute and read a little deeper. That’s New York Reform Report for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.