常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

gunplay

ここのgunplayとはなにかのplayなのでしょうか。potterくん,説明してください。(Green)

Gunplay Rises in New York, Reviving Issue for de Blasio

Shootings in New York City have been rising for two straight years, the first time that has happened since the end of the 1990s, when the city was still in the early years of a remarkable downturn in crime.

Homicides by gunfire, seen as a key measure of preventable violence, are up steeply this year. Of the 135 killings through May, 98 involved a gun, up from 69 such killings at this point in 2013 and in 2014.

For Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat whose efforts to improve police-community relations depend on a force that is often skeptical of him, increases in violence have reanimated an issue that has stalked him since his campaign for City Hall: How to quell gunplay in an era when stop-and-frisk — for years the Police Department’s principal tool for curbing street violence — is employed far less frequently than just a few years ago, before its excessive use came under widespread criticism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/nyregion/gunplay-rises-in-new-york-reviving-issue-for-de-blasio.html?emc=edit_na_20150601