Policewoman checks whether woman is concealing arms at socia

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 14: Policewoman checks whether woman is concealing arms at social club at 220 Howard Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Police responded twice to gun-involved incidents at the after-hours-hangout. According to police, a cruiser was flagged down, and Michael Forbes, a Brooklyn resident, told them that a man inside, Peter Stevens, of Irving Place, tried to shoot him. There were 15 shots fired and 20 persons were in the club. No one was hit. Stevens was arrested and charged with attempted murder. Later, two officers returned to the scene to collect spent shells, and another man, Rudolph Nickle of Covert St., emerged from the club reportedly waving an automatic weapon at police. He was wounded three times. Nickle, charged with menacing and criminal possession of a deadly weapon, was not seriously wounded. (Photo by Mike Lipack/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)