The recent ruling agai൩nst stop-and-frisk has emboldened the city’༺s pistol-packing perps.
In the month after federal judge Shira Scheindlin’🌺s decision that the polic💎e procedure is unconstitutional, shootings spiked nearly 13 percent — and gun seizures plummeted more than 17 percent, The Post has learned.
During the 28 days ending Sept. 8♓, there were 140 shootings across the Big Apple, compared with 124 during the same period last year, the figures show.
And the number of gunshot victims was up more than 9 percent, with 164 p♍eople struck by bullets this year, compared wi🐈th 150 shot over that month last year.
The victims include two tragic tots: 16-month-old Antiq Hennis,🐻 who was slain in his stroller as his parents pushed him across a Brownsville, Brooklyn, street, and Tharell Edward, 3, who was struck and wounded by a bullet in the head as he slept in his crib in the same borough.
Antiq’s alleged shooter, Daquan Breland, and his accompl🍬ice fled to Pennsylvania, where ⛎they were later arrested at a housing complex in Wilkes-Barre.
Breland was charged with murder and his accomplice was slapped with a g🌟un-possession charge for stashing the murder weapon, authorities s⛄aid.
After Scheindlin’s ruling on Aug. 12, another, less serious shooting♋ involving a child occurred.
On Aug. 24, a 3-year-old boy was shot in the arm when Ale▨x Tatis, 27, allegedly fired three shot🍷s at another person and hit the youngster in Vidalia Park in The Bronx.
Tatis was arrested on charges of att��empted murder🦄, assault and weapons possession.
Meanwhile, cops seized only 239 firearms between Aug. 10 and Sept. 8, compared with 289 weapons taken off the streets♍💫 during the same period last year.
Gun charges are also down, by more than 15 percent, with monthly arrests dropping to 417 thꦅis year from 492 la𒀰st year, according to NYPD statistics.
Sources blamed the disturbing trends on Scheindlin’s ruling, which was handed down two daysಌ after the start of this year’s monthly reporting period.
“Shootings are going through the roof now because perps are not afraid to carry a gu♓n,” a source said.
Scheindlin wrote in her 195-page decision that stop-and-frisk vio🦂lated the rights of minorities.
Another NYPD source said that cops are no longer being “proactive” with stop-and-frisk because “they’re scared of b🌞eing sued. They feel as if the city is not going to in✅demnify them in lawsuits,” the source said.
Ever since Scheindlin’s ruling, cops have jokingly referred to the anti-crime procedure —🥂 which is officially called “stop, question and frisk” — as “stop, watch and wai🍌t,” another source said.
It could have been worse, another police source said. The city was “lucky” that Scheindlin’sಌ ruling came at the end of summer.
“The summer months always produce more crime because of the hea🌊t,” the source said.
“If the ruling happened at theඣ beginning of the summer, all hell would have broken loose.”
Police complained t✃hat Scheindlin’s ruling removed the risk of arrest that gun-toters faced if the💮y were stopped.
“Bef꧙ore the ruling, when police were proactively stopping people, guys would not carry a gun unless they knew they were going to do a shooting,” a police source said.