The word "gravity knife" has slowly become any knife you are carrying seen by the NYPD. I am being slightly flippant but not really.
The law is completely ridiculous, there are tons of cases of brown people receiving prison terms because they were carrying a knife for work.
There are actually a lot of stabbings in NYC daily, so politicians are not motivated to repeal or clean up the language in the gravity knife law.
In 2016 the ny state assembly and the ny state senate passed a bill to repeal the NYC gravity knife law, but Governor Cuomo vetoed it.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knif...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/new-yorks-outdate...
The word "gravity knife" has slowly become any knife you are carrying seen by the NYPD. I am being slightly flippant but not really.
The law is completely ridiculous, there are tons of cases of brown people receiving prison terms because they were carrying a knife for work.
There are actually a lot of stabbings in NYC daily, so politicians are not motivated to repeal or clean up the language in the gravity knife law.
In 2016 the ny state assembly and the ny state senate passed a bill to repeal the NYC gravity knife law, but Governor Cuomo vetoed it.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-50s-era-new-york-knif...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/new-yorks-outdate...