Arrest the gang leaders? Or focus on the violent killers? The life-and-death choices of policing

Despite major investigative successes, B.C.'s police forces struggle to secure court convictions against organized crime. Former Mountie Dan Malo has some proposals

As monitoring officer of the team investigating the 2011 Kelowna casino shooting of infamous gang leader Jonathan Bacon, Dan Malo had to watch the chilling closed circuit video of the murder “far too many times.”

It required seven years of complex investigation and court proceedings to secure guilty pleas from the three Bacon killers in 2018. Malo, a car…