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BBC Scotland are in Liverpool today for the Labour Party Conference but they haven’t managed to pin Anas down for some tough questions about his boss or the numerous sex -offenders he hosts.

Will their BBC Liverpool colleagues be asking how Glasgow has managed to get such a low crime rate since the SNP took over?

Eurovision Decision: Liverpool has nearly twice the crime rate and three times the violent crime – The overall crime rate in Liverpool is 1 280 incidents per 10 000 people each year, while in Glasgow, where it has fallen by 22% in the last 10 years, it is only 682 per 10 000.

For violent crime in Liverpool, it is 52 incidents per 10 000 people and climbing but in Glasgow, it is far lower at 16.3 and falling.

Sources:

https://crimerate.co.uk/merseyside/liverpool

Click to access recorded-crime-scotland-2020-21.pdf

https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Liverpool-violent-crime-statistics.html

https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-glasgow-va/

Will their BBC Liverpool colleagues be asking why they don’t mention the Liverpool County Lines gangs keeping Scotland’s drug deaths high?

The ‘Scottish‘ media above collectively hanging on to our drug deaths sadness and discounting any progress.

Utterly ignored by ‘your’ media but in the Liverpool Echo in November 2022, above, and:

A series of raids across Scotland last week highlighted the continuing focus of Merseyside’s organised crime groups on the drugs market north of the border. Last week officers from Merseyside Police teamed up with Police Scotland for raids in Peterhead, Aberdeen and in Knowsley. On Wednesday, November 2, Police Scotland raided an address in Peterhead where cocaine and heroin were recovered and a man and woman arrested.

Debate has been raging north of the border over how to handle drug-related deaths, which have remained high for a number of years and show little sign of significantly reducing. Scotland still has the highest number of drug deaths in Europe. In 2021, 1,295 deaths were linked to illicit drugs in Scotland, albeit down from 1,411 in 2020 which represented the highest number on record.

Liverpool based street gangs do not appear to have been phased by the misery, death and addiction on the streets of Glasgow and other Scottish cities and towns, however. In 2018, a National Crime Agency (NCA) annual strategic assessment said: “Significant serious organised crime connections exist between Scotland and the north west of England, predominantly Merseyside.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-drugs-gangs-still-eye-25476347

Was any of that reported by BBC Scotland, STV? I can find nothing.

The Liverpool Echo is making a clear causal connection between Liverpool drug gangs, the flood of cheap, more powerful, drugs into Scotland and our still far too high drug deaths. Why are Scotland’s media ignoring that?