The escalation in gangland violence across Sydney is a predictable consequence of the Minns Labor Government taking its eye off community safety.\u00a0
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The kidnapping and death of Chris Baghsarian and shootings in St Clair and Guildford West and Greenacre are the latest in an upswing in violence in Sydney\u2019s West, North West and South West. \u00a0
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Under the watch of the Minns Labor Government organised criminal networks have been left unchecked, and communities left anxious as we pay the price for the failure to take decisive action sooner. \u00a0
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Shadow Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, Anthony Roberts, said while welcome, today\u2019s announcement about the expansion of Operation Shelter raises questions about resourcing.\u00a0
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\u201cNSW and law-abiding members of the community deserve better than a reactive approach to law and order in this state,\u201d Mr Roberts said.\u00a0
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\u201cThese criminals have been emboldened to continue with the tit for tat violence as a direct result of the Minns Labor Government\u2019s failure to act.\u201d\u00a0
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\u201cThere are critical questions as to whether NSW Police have the resourcing they need to staff this new unit without diverting officers from critical frontline policing roles particularly in Sydney\u2019s West, South West and North West,\u201d Mr Roberts said.\u00a0
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\u201cThe Minns Labor Government needs to invest in our police to ensure they have the capability to respond to incidents, threats and high-risk areas as well as combat the criminals that are running rampant in parts of Sydney.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The escalation in gangland violence across Sydney is a predictable consequence of the Minns Labor Government taking its eye off community safety.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The kidnapping and death of Chris Baghsarian and shootings in St Clair and Guildford West and Greenacre are the latest in an upswing in violence in Sydney\u2019s West, North West and South West. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Under … Continue reading “Gangland violence allowed to escalate under the Minns Labor Government”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37659,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions\/37659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}