Heydrich
04-10-2003, 03:40 AM
Why do you suppose this is happening, you know, with gun control and all?
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=112419
MANCHESTER, England Michael Todd, the new police chief in this northern hub, knew something was amiss the moment he arrived home. Where was his Sony Playstation? His television set? His new stereo equipment?
Not two months into his job as the city's chief constable, he had suffered a burglary, a random crime in a random apartment. It would have been funny, Todd said, a year later, if it had not so perfectly captured the frustration of the city's residents and the uphill task he faced in a city widely known as "Gunchester.". .
. . .Although overall crime has dropped slightly in recent years, Britain's major cities have seen an alarming jump in gun-related and violent crime. Gang warfare, drive-by shootings, crack dealing and the like, crimes that once were the exclusive staples of American urban street life, have encroached on everyday life here. Assaults, robberies and carjackings have grown steadily, too.
Guns are no longer a rarity. While the aggregate numbers pale next to America's, gun crime in England and Wales rose by 35 percent in 2002 and has nearly doubled since 1997. In the year 2001-02, guns were involved in 9,974 crimes.. .
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=112419
MANCHESTER, England Michael Todd, the new police chief in this northern hub, knew something was amiss the moment he arrived home. Where was his Sony Playstation? His television set? His new stereo equipment?
Not two months into his job as the city's chief constable, he had suffered a burglary, a random crime in a random apartment. It would have been funny, Todd said, a year later, if it had not so perfectly captured the frustration of the city's residents and the uphill task he faced in a city widely known as "Gunchester.". .
. . .Although overall crime has dropped slightly in recent years, Britain's major cities have seen an alarming jump in gun-related and violent crime. Gang warfare, drive-by shootings, crack dealing and the like, crimes that once were the exclusive staples of American urban street life, have encroached on everyday life here. Assaults, robberies and carjackings have grown steadily, too.
Guns are no longer a rarity. While the aggregate numbers pale next to America's, gun crime in England and Wales rose by 35 percent in 2002 and has nearly doubled since 1997. In the year 2001-02, guns were involved in 9,974 crimes.. .