Community policing worked, the rest didn't
Within a long and partly accurate report on today's shooting in Brussels is this passage:Link:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz43vpoROfWIt comes as Belgian police admitted a catastrophic police blunder allowed Paris bombings logistics chief Salah Abdeslam to remain at large for more than three months.A dedicated beat officer gave information about the whereabouts of Abdeslam to superiors on December 7 and urged them to pass it on to the country’s anti-terrorist police. But the confidential report was inexplicably not passed onto the federal bureau.
Also an official statement of apology:http://www.politico.eu/article/local...tell-brussels/
In the more infamous commune (neighbourhood) of Molenbeek, via a FP article and citing a US SME Matthew Levitt:Within a longer article:http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/24/...ved-brussels/?....the police in Molenbeek had 185 unfilled positions. “When I asked them if they do community policing — which works really well for counterterrorism — they said, well, maybe part time, but not full time,” Levitt recalled. With so many vacancies, they’re having a hard time just doing basic police functions.
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