Could Domestic Violence Be The Cause For Gang Crime?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/society-is-addicted-to-violence-senior-police-officer-tells-gang-conference-8449042.html

/// Mr Sutherland said the problem with gangs is not pertinent to a specific age group, neighbourhood or ethnic background. ///

If this is correct, why is it that gangs are mainly made up of young people, mainly in certain neighbourhoods, and of black youths?

/// "It's a whole-society problem that demands a whole-society solution." ///

At the moment it is not a 'whole society' problem, but could become one, unless some of these 'Experts' took off their 'rose tinted specs', and addressed the real problems.

[TWR]

The big difference EM, we used our fists to fight, not knifes.

[emmie]

trigger, not sure i really agree with that, certainly not in the capital.

[emmie]

problem in London, and other major cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_Kingdom

[sp1814]

em10

Many are caught in the crossfire of inter gang rivalries

Oddly enough...that's incorrect.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/26/bloody-chaotic-gang-violence-thusha

[emmie]

I wonder why it is our local paper reports gang on gang crime up, and murder by knife and particularly gun also up.

sp also that there are innocent members of the public caught up in these drug and turf war, as the newsreaders always add, somewhat unnecessarily, they were in the wrong place at the wrong time...