Professor Larry Rosenthal was quoted in an article in Chicago Sun Times, entitled “Daley rips gun ban double standard — Daley warns court decision on gun bans has ‘changed the rules’ for police.” Professor Rosenthal, Chicago’s former deputy corporation counsel, said the decision to overturn Washington, D.C.’s gun law “imperils both flat handgun bans and bans on carrying handguns, and for that reason, endangers the kind of policing tactics that have had the greatest success in fighting gang crime in urban areas.” “If the broadest interpretation of this decision is vindicated, police are going to lose the ability to engage in stop-and-frisk tactics when they see a suspicious bulge in the waist band of a known gang members standing in a known drug market. That’s going to make police effectively helpless in combating gang crime. Those are the stakes,” said Rosenthal. Read story…