Reluctant Gangsters - London Borough of Hillingdon

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Coppermill Fig. 4.3 Boundary/Monserrat Asian Auto Theft to Order Youth Gangs in Waltham Forest Autumn 2006 Priory Court/ GMD Chingford Hall The Drive/ Atlee Terrace Beaumont Hackney Overland Commuters Oliver Close Marlow Highams Park Brookscroft/ Barrier Boys Wood Street Lithuanian, Russian & Polish Gangs Red African Devils New World Order Cathall Langthorne Canhall Barrier/Brookscroft (Severity Score 45.5) The Barrier Boys have been a gang for about three years. The 10- 20 members are aged 15-18 and hang out at a barrier across a side street near an FE college and ‘tax’ and harass people who want to come by. They specialise in anti-social behaviour, low-level robbery and sexual harassment. They use, and may supply, ‘soft drugs’. (KI.14) 33
The Highams Park Gang (Severity Score 35) The Highams Park Gang has existed for between three and five years and is composed of 5-10 young people aged 15-18, some of whom are ‘looked after’ by the local authority. They engage in street robbery, using knives as a threat and are involved in the drink-related disorder, for which Highams Park is currently a ‘hotspot’, (there is a dispersal order in operation) (KI.07,14,31,). New World Order (Severity Score 28) A Leytonstone-based group of half a dozen, who are said to be ‘very friendly’, possibly due to their prolific consumption (and suspected supply) of soft drugs. They are not violent and not affiliated to any other gang or crew (KI.07,20). Asian Auto Theft To Order Gang @ Boundary (Severity Score 25+ estd.) Little is known about this group except that they steal cars to order and work out of the same territory as the Boundary/Monserrat Gang (KI.07,12,20) Hackney Overground Commuters (Severity Score 25+ estd.) Over the past two years this group of 5-10 young people aged 12- 18 from Hackney have been commuting in from Hackney Downs and fare-dodging to undertake street robberies in Highams Park and North Chingford where they believe the pickings are better because local residents appear to be well off (KI.07,14,20). Russian/Lithuanian/Polish Gangs (Severity Score Unknown) These groups reside on the other side of Leyton High Road from the Red African Devils and are allegedly involved in Prostitution (KI.07,31). Inter-gang Conflict Fig. 4.3 (above) plots the location of gangs in the borough, while figure 4.4 (below) maps the enmities and alliances between them. Some alliances, like that between the Beaumont Gang and gangs in Hackney, Tottenham and Harlesden are largely pragmatic, designed to maintain dominance in the London drug market. In some, like Priory Court and Beaumont, the link is partly familial. However, Drive maintains friendly relations with both Priory Court and Oliver Close, two gangs in conflict with each other. This suggests that gang rivalries and alliances are more complex and more fluid than they may first appear. 34
Page 1 and 2: Reluctant Gangsters: Youth Gangs in
Page 3 and 4: ‘Everybody on the street knows th
Page 5 and 6: Introduction This report, compiled
Page 7 and 8: Aim III: International Literature R
Page 9 and 10: emergence and growth and, within th
Page 11 and 12: existed for 3 months or more. The g
Page 13 and 14: necessary because, with the ‘glob
Page 15 and 16: 2. The Emergence and Growth of Gang
Page 17 and 18: effect of displacing some establish
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Page 21 and 22: 4. Youth Gangs and the Drugs Market
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Page 25 and 26: Fig. 4.2 “He buys two kilos of co
Page 27 and 28: Open markets cannot be protected as
Page 29 and 30: drugs in Liverpool and Manchester,
Page 31 and 32: Fig. 4.1: Metropolitan Police Harm
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Fig.10.3 The X-it Programme Aims To
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or associates of the core group, is
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7. School-based Gang Initiatives Th
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Preventive initiatives are also imp
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ealities ‘on the ground’. It wo
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Elders Youngers Fig. 10.1 Wannabees
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Currie E. (1985) Confronting Crime:
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Pitts J. & Porteous D. (2005) Nobod
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Appendix I Waltham Forest Gang Stud
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Appendix III Waltham Forest Gang St
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