Guns of Brixton, Haringey and Tottenham: routine armed patrols

[winjer]

A hand-picked team from CO19, the Metropolitan Police's elite firearms unit, will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned entire estates into "no go" zones.

[...]

The team of 18 constables, led by an inspector and two sergeants, will begin their patrols of Brixton, Haringey and Tottenham on Nov 9, following successful trial schemes.

The officers – some on motorbikes – will carrying out weapon "sweeps" of their neighbourhoods in an effort to deter gang members from carrying guns, and are also intended to be a reassuring presence for residents.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ed-on-routine-foot-patrol-for-first-time.html

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Sadken]

10 years?

 

[fogbat]

Some guns bad.

More guns better.

If Crispy were here, he could have done us a graph

 

[cesare]

Oh gawd.

 

[Cid]

Er... Tottenham is in Haringey.

 

[PacificOcean]

Guns have got more prolific, but fighting fire with fire (especially when it's wannabe ganstas and the old bill behind the triggers), seems a recipe for disaster.

Are there no go areas in Brixton now? There never used to be when I lived there when growing up.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Oh dear.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Are there no go areas in Brixton now? There never used to be when I lived there when growing up.

Wholefoods can be a bit frosty if you don't look hippy enough.

 

[PacificOcean]

Er... Tottenham is in Haringey.

To be pedantic, Tottenham is in the borough of Haringey.

Haringey is the bit by Green Lanes - though I don't remember the Greek community being big gun users, unless there is kebab war going on?

 

[Cid]

To be pedantic, Tottenham is in the borough of Haringey.

Haringey is the bit by Green Lanes - though I don't remember the Greek community being big gun users, unless there is kebab war going on?

Isn't that Haringay?

 

[dwenfish]

Isn't that Haringay?

indeed it is.

 

[subversplat]

Isn't that Haringay?

FFS, you can't say "gay" on the internet

Err, in regards to the OP, all I can hope is that no non-gun wielding peeps get shot in the crossfire

 

[PacificOcean]

Isn't that Haringay?

Odd one,

The station is called Haringay, the council Haringey and my spell checker thinks it's Haringey too.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Haringey is the bit by Green Lanes - though I don't remember the Greek community being big gun users, unless there is kebab war going on?

Maybe not the Greeks, but there are heroin wars between rival Turkish and Kurdish gangs.

 

[fogbat]

Harringay is an area in the borough of Haringey.

 

[Sadken]

Can someone get me a gun, please? I always hear how easy they are to come by, but every pub I've ever asked around has come up with nada. I just really, really want a fucking gun - is that seriously too much to ask?

 

[Corax]

heroin wars

Like Robot Wars but with less energy and more shivering.

 

[subversplat]

Can someone get me a gun, please? I always hear how easy they are to come by, but every pub I've ever asked around has come up with nada. I just really, really want a fucking gun - is that seriously too much to ask?

I don't think they really exist. Everyone "knows someone" who can get you one no bother, but do they ever turn up? It's all just a big con to sell newspapers and policemen.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Can someone get me a gun, please? I always hear how easy they are to come by, but every pub I've ever asked around has come up with nada. I just really, really want a fucking gun - is that seriously too much to ask?

A psychologist acquaintance of mine had a patient who told her about the time when he paid one grand for a shooter down in Brixton. He was given it in a brown paper bag and got all the way home before realising he'd bought a banana.

 

[Sadken]

A psychologist acquaintance of mine had a patient who told her about the time when he paid one grand for a shooter down in Brixton. He was given it in a brown paper bag and got all the way home before realising he'd bought a banana.

Lol. Hope that is true...

Yeah, I really don't believe there is a single fucking gun in this entire country. All I want is a bloody gun! Geeeeeeeeeez....

 

[sherriff rosco]

Maybe not the Greeks, but there are heroin wars between rival Turkish and Kurdish gangs.

Yep...thay had a good old brawl / shoot out a while back...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-1990071-fatal-gun-battle-rocks-harringay.do


.p.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Er... Tottenham is in Haringey.

Eh? How can Tottenham be in Haringey? Isn't Tottenham a distinct entity?

 

[Sadken]

Sas, surely you can get me a gun, right?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Sas, surely you can get me a gun, right?

Actually, I probably could. Through a friend of Mrs Sas's I do know some quite nasty people. I wouldn't though.

 

[Iguana]

Eh? How can Tottenham be in Haringey? Isn't Tottenham a distinct entity?

Tottenham is an area within the borough of Haringey. I assume it's a misspelling and the report should be Brixton, Tottenham and Harringay (which is the area around Green Lanes).

 

[Iguana]

Isn't that Haringay?

Harringay.

 

[IC3D]

Is anyone going to write to the Telegraph about this .. mispelling of Haringay (I think its one r)

edited to add that its two

 

[Sasaferrato]

And most of you ( well a lot ) live in London...

 

[ChrisFilter]

And most of you ( well a lot ) live in London...

And?

 

[likesfish]

what are the police suppoused to do if armed thugs want to shoot at people
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