ARE POLICE LOSING CONTROL OF OUR STREETS?
THIS latest shooting in North East Glasgow shows Police Scotland are still losing the fight for control of our city streets.
Gunmen are carrying out shocking attacks in broad daylight outside schools and play parks – areas bustling with young families and children
How long before an innocent victim is caught in the crossfire?
Police call for calm by stressing this was a ‘targeted’ attack where the victim was the intended hit – but this comes as cold comfort to those living with violence on their doorstep.
Given the same gunmen can’t handle a fire arm and often miss their target, the question must be asked – what if they hit someone they did not intend to?
What are Police Scotland proactively doing to tackle the issue? Who are the gun runners supplying weapons? Why are they able to flood our streets with deadly weapons created to kill?
The reactive approach of extra patrols to reassure the public may offer a short-term solution in the aftermath of an attack, but after yet another city shooting it is clear this approach is coming up short in the long-run.
We need a force able to snuff out this gangland battleground – which has taken over our residential streets, schools and communities.
It’s time intelligence was used to cut out these attacks at source.
But is that intelligence even in their hands when an already stretched police force is ploughing what little resource it has into hunting the gunmen who got away?