2aguy
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But....don't they have gun control in Britain?
As I keep trying to tell the smug British anti-gun extremists.....The United States experienced a surge in violence in the mid 1960s, as criminals became more violent. It lasted until the 1990s. Britain is now entering this phase...as their criminal gangs become more violent, lose their fear and respect of the police and their justice system sees violent criminals as victims, rather than violent predators who need to be locked up.
The shooting and stabbing of a teenager in broad daylight on a street in Canning Town is just the latest chapter of what has become Britainās most violent gangland feud
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Reports of bloodshed ripple quickly through Newhamās gangland grapevine. On Monday, shocks reverberated through the borough after Abubakkar Jah, 18, known as Junior, was shot and stabbed to death in the middle of the afternoon near his Canning Town home. Three days earlier, a third of a mile away, another brutal afternoon murder occurred when 14-year-old Fares Maatou was stabbed in a busy street outside a pizza restaurant.
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That feud may have already begun. A man was shot in the face and left in a critical condition at 6pm on Thursday in east Newham. Metropolitan police sources said a possible link to the earlier violence was āunder reviewā.
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But not only do the killings continue, the gangs themselves have proliferated.
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Hardingās work identifies the concept of āstreet capitalā, where gang members are perpetually required to prove their worth with increasingly ferocious acts of violence ā acts which can silence a community.
Butt refers to the idea of āratingsā to explain brazen violence.āIf they stab or hurt someone, they are more likely to get ratings, road status,ā he says. An act of sickening brutality committed in a public place ā ideally in front of bystanders and shared on social media ā offers guaranteed ratings. Newhamās two recent murders, committed in the afternoon and likely to be witnessed, conform to the theory.
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Such behaviour has also escalated the risk to officers. Chaudhri, who grew up in Newham, has monitored the evolution of its criminals from working-class white protection rackets to the competitive and chaotic world of drug-dealing, and believes the streets have become more threatening to its police. āThey are a lot uglier, more violent. Assaults on officers have increased,ā she said.
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In the summer of 2017, the gangs fought with knives inside Stratfordās Westfield shopping centre.
Two weeks later, a 14-year-old schoolboy, Corey Junior āCJā Davis, was fatally shot in the head near a playground in Forest Gate. The murder remains unsolved. āCJās death changed the game, the desensitised way that some reacted to the killing. It had gone too far,ā said Butt.
www.theguardian.com
As I keep trying to tell the smug British anti-gun extremists.....The United States experienced a surge in violence in the mid 1960s, as criminals became more violent. It lasted until the 1990s. Britain is now entering this phase...as their criminal gangs become more violent, lose their fear and respect of the police and their justice system sees violent criminals as victims, rather than violent predators who need to be locked up.
The shooting and stabbing of a teenager in broad daylight on a street in Canning Town is just the latest chapter of what has become Britainās most violent gangland feud
---
Reports of bloodshed ripple quickly through Newhamās gangland grapevine. On Monday, shocks reverberated through the borough after Abubakkar Jah, 18, known as Junior, was shot and stabbed to death in the middle of the afternoon near his Canning Town home. Three days earlier, a third of a mile away, another brutal afternoon murder occurred when 14-year-old Fares Maatou was stabbed in a busy street outside a pizza restaurant.
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That feud may have already begun. A man was shot in the face and left in a critical condition at 6pm on Thursday in east Newham. Metropolitan police sources said a possible link to the earlier violence was āunder reviewā.
----
But not only do the killings continue, the gangs themselves have proliferated.
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Hardingās work identifies the concept of āstreet capitalā, where gang members are perpetually required to prove their worth with increasingly ferocious acts of violence ā acts which can silence a community.
Butt refers to the idea of āratingsā to explain brazen violence.āIf they stab or hurt someone, they are more likely to get ratings, road status,ā he says. An act of sickening brutality committed in a public place ā ideally in front of bystanders and shared on social media ā offers guaranteed ratings. Newhamās two recent murders, committed in the afternoon and likely to be witnessed, conform to the theory.
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Such behaviour has also escalated the risk to officers. Chaudhri, who grew up in Newham, has monitored the evolution of its criminals from working-class white protection rackets to the competitive and chaotic world of drug-dealing, and believes the streets have become more threatening to its police. āThey are a lot uglier, more violent. Assaults on officers have increased,ā she said.
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In the summer of 2017, the gangs fought with knives inside Stratfordās Westfield shopping centre.
Two weeks later, a 14-year-old schoolboy, Corey Junior āCJā Davis, was fatally shot in the head near a playground in Forest Gate. The murder remains unsolved. āCJās death changed the game, the desensitised way that some reacted to the killing. It had gone too far,ā said Butt.
London killings: āItās like a war zone. How did it come to this?ā
The shooting and stabbing of a teenager in broad daylight on a street in Canning Town is just the latest chapter of what has become Britainās most violent gangland feud
www.theguardian.com
