ROSS KEMP ON GANG TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

In this episode, Ross Kemp takes a step back in a more home bound direction to South London, and the area in which he grew up. Ross looks into the uproar in Gun and knife crime being committed by teens and slowly more younger offenders. Examples of victims who had fallen to gun crime in South London were Adam Andre Smartford (shot at an ice skating rink), Michael Dosunmu (shot in his bed) and Billy Cox (shot in his house by someone he knew). Ross Kemp caught up with Peckham councillor Nick Stack who outlined that Peckham is improving as it has been giving a regneration scheme worth millions of pounds. He also outlined that he acknowledges that parents are asked to work long hours but recieve no beneftis towards the upbringing of their children, and this has to be addressed. Finally, he said it was imporatnt that the Peckham community takes actions for the crime that is taking place within it and not expect the police and governemnt to sort it out. This appears to make no sense, because without police and government support, how would the Peckham community be able to have offenders locked up and crimes prevented to save lives?
Ross also spoke to Frank Lardan, an ex Peckham Boys gang member, who joined the gang at the age of 11 as the 'youngsters coming up' to take over from the older members. Frank began selling drugs to junkies before one of them stabbed him and tried to mug him for the drugs. He stated that in Peckham he has seen "11 year olds carrying mac 10s" and that guns are easy to get hold of, being provided by the government. One significant point to draw attention to is that Frank estimated a mac 10 fiream costing around £2000-£3000, so how is that young black people are obtaining the money to purchase them? Frank was also right in saying guns cannot be legally purchased behind a counter, and that the governemnt/army must be behind it, and I find this a very interesting theory.
A sweet shop in the area called Hao Wah was shown selling replica fireamrs, which can easily be transformed into real ones with the right knowledge. I believe a link can be made between these replica firearms and Frank's theory, as only someone with a particular degree of knowledge in firearms (e.g. army) would be able to give instructions on how to convert them. Macintyre disagreed with Frank's theory saying "peckham doesn't want any firearms, so why would the governemnt be behind it?" I think he has missed the point that what Peckham wants and the Government wants could be parallel, and maybe the Governemnt is secretly suppressing largely populated black areas in London in a similar appraoch to the flood incident in New Orleans.