//Spathi “In a lot of gang culture, (moped gangs etc..) and in a lot of communities they say those who tell the police information with get physically harmed.” //
There has always been a wall of silence within the black community
in London.
That is why,in part, the initiative to recruit more ethnics fail to reach targets.
The Met police were very successful in finding the dealers years ago by intelligent use of Sec 66 Metropolitan Police Act. So successful that it wasn't regarded as policing by intelligence but racial targeting by the likes of Bernie Grant and Dianne Abbot.
Incidentally Abbot gave her reason for sending her son to a private school was because she didn't want him caught up in the black youth gangs.
The Government caved in to pressure and withdrew a useful and successful tool for the police in London. Sec 66 MPA.
It is with great irony hat those who smugly believed they had got one over the police are now bleating when their sons and daughters. are butchered in the streets and saying the police aren't doing enough.
If no information is forthcoming then no arrests can be made.
I do not dispute that stabbings/shootings occur in the provinces but not,I would suggest, on the scale it happens almost daily in London.
Simple reason is that is where the hub of drug distribution lies and where the drug lords control their county lines. They stay at home protecting their empires from rivals and send kids out to the shires to pedal their wares.It will no doubt get worse in the provinces.