THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T WORK ANYWHERE: NYPD Deputy Commissioner: Gun Buybacks Don’t Work for NYC. “NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Collaborative Policing Susan Herman today told a crowd of anti-gun violence advocates that gun buybacks—a program long employed by New York police and politicians to exchange firearms for cash in hopes of preventing shootings—do little to reduce the number of weapons on city streets.”

Nope. For that you need “stop and frisk.”