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Waiting For Guns From Gangsters
posted (April 20, 2020)
One way the gangs are doing their part for trying times is by giving up a number of guns. On Friday the Police department had collected 22 of them with an expectation of 5 more. And this morning the Commissioner told us that they've received two more:

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I know since then we have received two more. We should be getting the others this week and see what else we can do to disarm the gang members of their firearms."

Reporter:
"Is it the expectation that each gang member would have a gun?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"No, no what we see in the gang world is that it's not everybody that has gone some when they want to go on missions, go and borrow a gun and when they're finished they return the gun to whoever they borrowed it from so to say that 137 released and 27 guns don't add up. I wouldn't subscribe to that because not each of them would have a gun no."

Reporter:
"You wouldn't expect that some would have a stash tho have you gotten like two or three from one single person."

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Yes, we do we got up to 7 from one group, yes."

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