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It was an inflammatory question, and boy was I inflamed when I wrote it ! Thanks for the responses.
Such crime is rife in inner cities where there is widespread poverty (WHY?), poor housing (WHY?), poor education (WHY?), lack of employment (WHY? but would you employ one of them - exactly!)
How do we address the problem ? Chuck public money at it ? ---- i.e. Your and My money - and what do we do with that money, build yoof clubs maybe for them to terrorise and burn down.
So many questions, and so few answers because - to put it bluntly - there are no answers. It is the way it has become, and it is not going to change. The rest of us have to live with that fact.
This is Our Britain, 21st century version.