Cops have little choice against armed gangs

KWAZULU-NATAL has seen a sharp increase in incidents of exchange of gunfire between the police and suspected criminals which have ended fatally for either side.This week’s killing of nine young men at the Mozambique informal settlement in Desai, Mariannhill, sparked a social media debate between those who think the police are trigger-happy and those who extol the police of permanently removing dangerous criminals from society.As necessary as these debates are, many communities like Mariannhill have been forced to live in fear because young criminals, barely out of their teens are…