Children making
their way home for tea stop and stare as the police question three teenagers.
Half the officers are armed and ready with Heckler and Koch G36 assault rifles,Find the trendiest jewelrysupplies including stylish. capable of firing at a rate of 750 rounds a minute.
On their backs hang baton guns which can fire circular plastic rounds that can floor a person from 25 metres.
The G36 is common in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
But now Bedfordshire police are deploying the deadly weapons on the cul de sacs of a British housing estate.
And the question is, after Luton, where will routine armed police patrols happen next, Brixton, Bristol, Toxteth or Bradford?
This isn’t downtown Los Angeles where heavily-armed gangs wage war on the streets, but an English home county.
The Marsh Farm estate in Luton has been plagued by a spiralling escalation of violence in a turf war with a gang on the nearby Lewsey Farm estate.
Nine shootings in four months, culminating with a 16-year-old boy shot in the back on Sunday, has led Bedfordshire police to display a show of force rarely seen in BritaI assumed that all eight of you knew how to make the jewelryfindings.in – with heavily-armed patrols on quiet residential streets.
The three teenagers, surrounded by the armed officers and their five cars, don’t seem fazed by the guns.
They chat good naturedly with the officers, who cradle their weapons as they talk, before eventually being allowed Find a great selection of Glass electricitymonitor deals.to go on their way.
The seriously injured 16-year-old boy, who has been told he may never walk again, was shot just yards away.
Taxi driver Rob Abdar, 38, pulls up with the two young daughters he has just picked up from school.
He looks at the armed cops outside his home and shakes his head.
His carefully chosen words echoes opinions which until now you were more likely to hear in the South Bronx, in New York, before zero tolerance was imposed.We have compared ten of the most popular flashdrives.
The father of four says: “This used to be a lovely place to live. But it has got worse and worse.
"There is no way I would let my children out now. I go home and I lock the door. It is terrible having children here, you are so scared for them.”
He looks disdainfully at the Heckler and Kochs held by the policemen.
“You do not want guns like that. I know it is for our safety.A smartcard is a device that includes an embedded integrated circuit chip. But you worry if they get fired, a bullet could go anywhere.”
Looking down at daughters Raihan, seven and six-year-old Samiha, he adds: “You don’t know what or who they will hit.”
The officers go on their way, circling the 1960s estate, home to 10,000 people.
One squad car parks up outside the school, a centre of excellence for the performing arts.
The officer in the passenger seat shifts the weight of his assault rifle, displaying it for the last students leaving for the day.
The day and night armed patrols are far removed from Britain’s cherished memory of an amiable bobby on the beat, giving a teenage delinquent a piece of his mind.
They are more reminiscent of Belfast at the height of the Troubles. But senior officers say the regular armed patrols are no temporary measure.
Half the officers are armed and ready with Heckler and Koch G36 assault rifles,Find the trendiest jewelrysupplies including stylish. capable of firing at a rate of 750 rounds a minute.
On their backs hang baton guns which can fire circular plastic rounds that can floor a person from 25 metres.
The G36 is common in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
But now Bedfordshire police are deploying the deadly weapons on the cul de sacs of a British housing estate.
And the question is, after Luton, where will routine armed police patrols happen next, Brixton, Bristol, Toxteth or Bradford?
This isn’t downtown Los Angeles where heavily-armed gangs wage war on the streets, but an English home county.
The Marsh Farm estate in Luton has been plagued by a spiralling escalation of violence in a turf war with a gang on the nearby Lewsey Farm estate.
Nine shootings in four months, culminating with a 16-year-old boy shot in the back on Sunday, has led Bedfordshire police to display a show of force rarely seen in BritaI assumed that all eight of you knew how to make the jewelryfindings.in – with heavily-armed patrols on quiet residential streets.
The three teenagers, surrounded by the armed officers and their five cars, don’t seem fazed by the guns.
They chat good naturedly with the officers, who cradle their weapons as they talk, before eventually being allowed Find a great selection of Glass electricitymonitor deals.to go on their way.
The seriously injured 16-year-old boy, who has been told he may never walk again, was shot just yards away.
Taxi driver Rob Abdar, 38, pulls up with the two young daughters he has just picked up from school.
He looks at the armed cops outside his home and shakes his head.
His carefully chosen words echoes opinions which until now you were more likely to hear in the South Bronx, in New York, before zero tolerance was imposed.We have compared ten of the most popular flashdrives.
The father of four says: “This used to be a lovely place to live. But it has got worse and worse.
"There is no way I would let my children out now. I go home and I lock the door. It is terrible having children here, you are so scared for them.”
He looks disdainfully at the Heckler and Kochs held by the policemen.
“You do not want guns like that. I know it is for our safety.A smartcard is a device that includes an embedded integrated circuit chip. But you worry if they get fired, a bullet could go anywhere.”
Looking down at daughters Raihan, seven and six-year-old Samiha, he adds: “You don’t know what or who they will hit.”
The officers go on their way, circling the 1960s estate, home to 10,000 people.
One squad car parks up outside the school, a centre of excellence for the performing arts.
The officer in the passenger seat shifts the weight of his assault rifle, displaying it for the last students leaving for the day.
The day and night armed patrols are far removed from Britain’s cherished memory of an amiable bobby on the beat, giving a teenage delinquent a piece of his mind.
They are more reminiscent of Belfast at the height of the Troubles. But senior officers say the regular armed patrols are no temporary measure.
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