Met says drug gangs in capital finding it difficult to source and move around firearms
Drug gangs are finding it increasingly difficult to get guns to terrorise rivals and their own members asMetropolitan police chiefs are trying to work out what has led to the fall in gun deaths and gun attacks in the capital. Not sincehas anyone been killed in a shooting on the streets of London. Fifteen people were shot dead in London in 2018, one fewer the year after, and 12 in 2021.
It is not just gun deaths that have plummeted. So far this year police have detected 27 shootings in the capital – barely one a week. In 2010-11 there were 499.“Gun crime in London is absolutely linked to gangs and drugs and the vast majority of victims and suspects are linked to that world,” McNulty said. Criminals use firearms to protect territory and markets, enforce debt collection, intimidate and frighten people, and as a status symbol.
McNulty said this thwarted opportunities for reprisal shootings of foot soldiers in the trade who lost their drugs to the police. “If you are arrested as a drug dealer or mule, they have lost a kilo of drugs and money and they have a problem. If you can arrest, charge and send them to prison, not only can they not deal drugs but the retribution cannot take place.”
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