Originally Posted by cosham:
“I thought the gist of the story was that the police,were reluctant to act on these gangs because of fear of being called racist. All sections of society have this type of scum in them Black,White,Asian. What needs to happen is the police to come down on these people whoever they are like the proverbial ton of bricks.”
Odd, what I got from the program is that the government hasn't made this a priority.
Until the government make it a priority and start throwing some money at it or telling the Police to then the Police won't make it a priority.
The man hours per arrest/conviction ratio for this sort of crime is low and the police have to produce arrests/convictions to prove they're not sitting around drinking tea.
As the ex-copper from the West Midlands put it, they need dedicated teams working on this, with a similar approach that they've taken with domestic violence, protecting and supporting the victim.
As with domestic violence it's hard to get convictions, because the victim is brainwashed/scared of the perpetrator.
Given what I've seen this is nothing new, but the accusation that the Police won't deal with the problem because of racism only seems to pop up when they mention Muslims.
Why did things go quiet after the Wolverhampton investigation in 1998, where were the accusations of Racism then, when the Wolverhampton gangs were mostly West Indian.
The investigation took the Copper around the country and he found different gangs of different ethnicity's.
Just organised criminals getting into a lower risk, higher profit business instead of drugs.
A couple of things came to my mind, the films Get Carter and Prime Cut and the fact that I knew a girl who was working as a Brass from a childrens home 20 years ago.