CRACKDOWN YIELDS 60 GUNS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: JORDAN CARLEO-EVANGELIST Staff writer

Four months after it began, a joint effort between Albany and State Police to crack down on drugs and illegal guns in certain neighborhoods has netted 68 arrests and pulled 60 guns off the streets, officials said Monday.

``There's no way to quantify prevention, the number of victims saved,'' said Police Chief James E. Turley, motioning to an array of revolvers, sawed-off shotguns and semiautomatic handguns on a nearby table.

The operation, so-called Operation IMPACT, put state troopers with city cops in the Park South, West Hill, Arbor Hill and South End neighborhoods to ``ferret out and seize illegal …