Age, like a clever stealth tax, creeps up on you in the way once recommended by foot pads and press gangs. |
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You get gangs of young people, some as young as 12 or 13, smoking what looks like wacky baccy. |
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The rule of law is fragile, with gangs of thugs running protection rackets in many cities, in the absence of a reliable police force. |
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There were certain areas where we had youths in gangs of 20 or 25 causing serious problems for residents and running us ragged. |
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Hamer residents say they are living in fear after gangs went on the rampage and vandalised cars. |
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Their heroes are rappers and members of violent gangs such as the Young Americans, the Mafia, the Firm, and Hard Livings. |
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Organised criminal gangs, using highly sophisticated techniques, are often behind them. |
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We have been very weak in how we deal with gangs and criminal organisations in this country. |
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Former military figures have been implicated in drug trafficking and kidnappings by organized criminal gangs. |
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She added that most vulnerable residents of the city have become the prey of organised and powerful criminal gangs. |
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The documents contained sensitive information on informants, north west criminal gangs and even bank accounts detailing payments for information. |
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Organised criminal gangs using JCBs are raiding Scotland's wild plants, making tens of thousands of pounds a time. |
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The police will be taking a hard look at organised criminal gangs operating in the city. |
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Criminal gangs use the information you enter to empty your bank account or spend on your credit card. |
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In its most dangerous form, it can include the organized activities of predator gangs, criminal groups, and drug trafficking networks. |
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Born 50 years ago in Glasgow's east end, by the age of 14 he was caught up in the world of razor gangs and petty crime. |
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A secret surveillance operation has exposed a catalogue of crime as gangs of youths run amok on the streets of a troubled York estate. |
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A couple have vowed not to be pushed out of their own street by gangs of youths they say have made their lives a misery for years. |
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A community organisation might find a new way of working with young people to break down gangs and gang violence. |
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Volunteer pensioners are reviewing security after coming under attack from gangs of youths during a charity street procession. |
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Police were called out to deal with two more incidents involving gangs of youths gathering in Etty Avenue, Tang Hall, York, last night. |
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Stores with extensive ground-level car parking, which suffer car crime and loitering gangs of youths, are considering security patrols. |
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By having more programs, you might see a reduction in the dangers facing youth today like street gangs. |
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The streets are awash with gangs of youths and people who look like they have not bathed in weeks. |
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By the 1960s SHD enthusiasm for using convict road gangs was apparently in decline as the system dwindled away to a remnant. |
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He had the pleasure of working with rail gangs under the supervision of three locals, all now long retired. |
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Trading standards officials in North Yorkshire are warning householders about teams of itinerant asphalt-laying gangs operating in the county. |
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The reappearance of road gangs in Alabama revived painful images of the state and the South as a backward and racist region. |
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After a spell on the road gangs, some thirty more were sent for several years to the coal mines at Newcastle, reopened for them. |
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Several years later the state attempted to make the road gangs all black again. |
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Prior to 1927, when county convict road gangs were sometimes used by the SHC, there is no explicit mention of the race of convict laborers. |
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The majority of the county convicts placed in state custody were put to work on prison farms rather than on road gangs. |
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The number of convicts used in road gangs in Alabama increased rapidly in the late 1940s as demobilization increased the population of young men. |
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He seems to have worked on road gangs for a time and in a shoe repair factory before rheumatism forced him to quit. |
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Special refugee camps to prevent children being kidnapped by criminal gangs are to be set up. |
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In some parts of the country, criminal gangs will pay homeless people to rummage though dustbins for receipts and bank statements. |
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Like, that members of republican groups tend not to hang around in gangs on balconies wearing dark woolly jumpers and darker expressions. |
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There are many gangs who have adopted political allegiance to one party or another. |
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I want to return for a moment to your comment earlier about your allergy to literary gangs. |
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Residents are campaigning to close a playground, claiming gangs of youths who gather are subjecting them to a reign of terror. |
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Because there is no formal structure, Yardie gangs have little resemblance to organisations like the Mafia. |
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Regulars were driven away from a Leeds pub by violent Yardie drug gangs who imposed a reign of terror, a police commander said yesterday. |
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In the US, the punishments for yobbery are harsh, and gangs are likely to be attacking each other, rather than the general populace. |
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Police have taken action to stop large gangs of youths congregating on church grounds. |
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The behaviour of gangs of youths has been making life a nightmare for some residents. |
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Nuisance caused by gangs of noisy youths congregating in the alleys has also stopped. |
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Spend some more on getting rid of the gangs of young thugs that roam around on our buses and trains. |
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Harper thanks the street gangs for the repeated attacks on his campaign for his soaring poll numbers. |
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Nor leave the country to the mercy of rape gangs and carjackers and then take the guns away. |
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Rebels advanced on the capital which erupted in anarchy and mayhem as armed gangs looted and fought each other on the streets. |
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There was anarchy, chaos, gangs of armed and brutal thugs, panic, starvation and horror. |
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Often, there'd be the added distraction of other gangs of local layabouts throwing sticks and stones at you an your way through. |
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The anchorwoman presented this clip as evidence that armed gangs are responsible for the killing and destruction. |
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Our lead story in this week's edition of online is an examination of the criminal gangs who commit much of the world's cyber crime. |
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The gangs of youths were also blamed for skateboarding in residential areas, drinking, leaving litter and being verbally abusive. |
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There are well-documented gangs of child pickpockets and other assorted thieves operating on both sides of the border. |
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But now I really do need their help in one very big gang battle between our rival and two other gangs. |
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Attempts to depart are met with roadblocks and gangs of confrontational junk cars. |
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The traditional teachers in the school lash out at her modern ways, gangs roam the streets, and roadblocks prevent travel outside of the area. |
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They could, however, act as bolt holes when gangs of slavers raided, a growing menace from the ninth century on. |
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Nor is it a police action against a random assortment of criminals or criminal gangs. |
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He was missing a little finger on his right hand as a result from his fight with street gangs. |
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The local authorities have to do the main job of finding these gangs and rooting them out. |
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Last year, Strathclyde Police found youth street gangs were arming themselves with an arsenal of household utensils which double up as weapons. |
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He began associating with gangs, using drugs and verbally harassing and stalking young women. |
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Tensions and emotions ran high as both gangs headed for the chosen rumble spot at the football field. |
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As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas. |
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The result has been to shift the burden of proof to members and associates of those gangs, and, in effect, to hit them in their wallets. |
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Apart from these more organized armies, armed gangs of bandits under their own leaders join the fighting. |
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And as night fell, rioting erupted between rival gangs of nationalists and loyalists in the north of the city. |
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He said the gangs fought with double-barrelled shotguns, machetes, broken bottles, iron bars. |
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Police point out that the family, like all the other gangs in the city, now have access to a variety of firearms, including automatic guns. |
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For years, the underground bailes, or funk parties, ended in fistfights or shootouts between gangs. |
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For many, it's a no-go area, where the chances are you'll be beaten up or worse by marauding gangs. |
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Jolo, about 600 miles south of Manila, is a refuge for armed gangs, bandits and pirates. |
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The still extensive forests, swamps, and reed-edged lakes provided cover for gangs of bandits, robbers, and deserters. |
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Are you talking about the thievish doings of organized crime, all those gangs we keep hearing about? |
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A secret drugs recipe to replace the banned miaow miaow is being sold to gangs across the UK, the paper reports. |
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Rare pieces are stolen to order by gangs who use the works to launder money. |
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These falsetto-led odes to love and innocence requiring precise singing were born on street corners among gangs of toughs. |
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It narrates the tale of mid-19th century New York dominated by street toughs, racist gangs, corrupt policemen and politicians. |
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About an hour later, a construction train arrived to unload cheerful gangs of tracklayers and graders, and then pulled away again. |
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Combination tools are tillage and incorporation tools that combine disk gangs, field cultivator shanks, and leveling devices. |
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No, mightiness comes later after many battles with enemy units, big spiders, polar bears, wolves, giants, and gangs of thugs. |
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Police have revealed a feud between rival travellers ' gangs led to three men being shot in Wickford. |
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These weapons form the backbone of every kind of miscreant organisation, from local gangs to organised crime to terrorist organisations. |
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The upshot of all this was that he had come to the attention of one of the main triad gangs. |
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Even though gangs like this have operated for many years, people do not want to believe that their friends are all a part of the Mob. |
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Once darkness falls, the army cedes huge areas of the shanty towns to local gangs and mobsters. |
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It had been a trouble spot for more than four years with intimidating gangs hanging around. |
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Rival gangs roaming the streets, engaged in a lucrative turf war over who supplies a population hooked on an expensive habit. |
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His good friend C Jay was gunned down here last July in a turf war between rival gangs after walking his girlfriend home late one night. |
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Up to 70 teenage tearaways from rival gangs are terrorising residents and business owners in a turf war for Hawkell, a councillor has claimed. |
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Detectives believe the four were the victims of a deadly turf war between two rival gangs who opened fire at the back of the salon. |
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Other gangs have resorted to blackmailing doctors monthly in return for their personal safety. |
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The other powerful ingredient in the deadly mix of black-on-black violence is the plague of gangs and drugs. |
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Decriminalisation has all the disadvantages of increased use while allowing gangs to retain their virtual monopoly on production and supply. |
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She said the culprits are gangs of teenagers, aged between about 17 and 19, who are often seen meeting up on their mopeds. |
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This is an indication that international drugs gangs are increasingly using mules to smuggle the narcotic into the country. |
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Armed gangs, constituents of rival warring factions, skirmished for control of the camps. |
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Garda sources believe the gangs may have been desperate to raise money to pay off debts. |
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The ever present gangs, all set to boo them, were also in full swing whenever the vocals chords missed the notes. |
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Yet despite his slovenly appearance, somehow Araki is always followed by lovely young ladies in kimonos and gangs of sharp-dressed yes men. |
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But, judging from this independent action film, those crazy kids from down under love the smackdown as much as our home-grown gangs. |
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But without rehabilitation, the juvenile car gangs are likely to return from the modern day borstals, more menacing than before. |
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There is a real danger that if the battles with gangs in the region aren't won, these countries could become narco-states. |
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Under him, the country visibly turned into a narco-state with organised criminal gangs. |
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Police say the Swindon area is under siege by gangs of smooth-talking con artists. |
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Week after week we see gangs of brain-dead boneheads invade this part of town hellbent on violence and fuelled by alcohol. |
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The area is covered by a Dispersal Order, which enables officers to move gangs on they suspect are up to no good. |
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Teenagers are being recruited by hardcore London-based criminal gangs to peddle drugs on the streets of Swindon. |
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Tight Eyez solemnly vows to protect Baby Tight Eyez from the lure of the gangs. |
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They are found in road-building gangs, in quarries and brickworks, on plantations and in sweatshops. |
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These gangs were later joined by the 26, who added more pressure to the authorities and non-aligned inmates. |
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Clearly this is counterintuitive to the more common assumption that large gangs of malevolent youths are vicious, destructive, soulless morons. |
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Tragic mums whose children were victims of gun crime were today gathering at a unique event to tackle armed gangs. |
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Men with giant hands, bulbous noses and bulging eyes congregate and argue over the price of gangs of horses. |
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That get up is outrageous and serves to remind us that our present day gangs are letting us down with their naff sportswear. |
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Meanwhile, Bourque hopes to win Haitians back by promising his mayoral salary to the fight against gangs, a big issue among Haitians. |
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In order to get from one place to another relatively quickly, the gangs used handcars and later, speeders. |
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They believe that a crackdown by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police has displaced London gangs of so-called grungers and rude boys to Chelmsford. |
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They are often suspected of being criminals from organized gangs. |
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He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs. |
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Student gangs are a feature of school life and the teacher who runs afoul of any member of a gang, whether male or female, is in for a torrid time. |
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Authorities believe criminal gangs and paramilitary organisations are making hundreds of millions of euro every year from a range of criminal activity. |
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With considerable relish, Asbury chronicles the history of the multitude of gangs who fought to control the streets of the Bowery, Hell's Kitchen and the Five Points. |
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Who uses the word mingle when it comes to associating with gangs? |
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A police mission to break up unruly gangs is beginning to work. |
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It's a ridiculous caper about the ongoing turf war between rival gangs of housewives who are out for blood, as long as the carpets have been Scotch-Guarded. |
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Crime by gangs of unemployed youth has been increasing in the Tari area. |
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Fifteen months later, he takes up a position as a relief teacher in a Los Angeles school where gangs rule and education is resisted by most students. |
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However, some of our more solvable problems such as street crime and youth gangs who prey on innocents in broad daylight can be eradicated in short order. |
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One resident, who did not want to be named, said that in recent weeks his car had been attacked and damaged by gangs of youths and windows on his street had been smashed. |
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We are not the ones who contemplated suicide because we could no longer bear the terror that was being inflicted on us by gangs of thugs and bullies. |
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A war of gangs and urban warfare, guerrilla warfare and a war of bees that sting and run away and return to sting once more. |
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Bohemians have been Rovers' traditional rivals since the demise of Drumcondra in the 1970s, with skinhead gangs attaching themselves to both clubs. |
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Bilek argues that by supplying the gangs with drugs, guzman is fueling their conflicts. |
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His initiative is one of several trying to keep youth from street gangs. |
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Police believe they were victims of a turf war between rival gangs. |
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Thus although young black men form rival gangs which have to be fought, their tough macho masculinity wins them respect from their white counterparts. |
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As a teenager growing up in New York, he had become involved with street gangs and used drug dealing as a means of funding his own heroin addiction. |
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He was born in a New York ghetto and seemed on the road to a life of gangs when three Canadians took a shine to him and decided to bring him back to Toronto. |
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The British Foreign Office was advising travellers to avoid the country while the stretch from Bam to Pakistan was dogged with marauding gangs of bandits. |
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This milestone measure is a living tribute to the thousands of men and women who have lost their lives in pursuit of a world free of mafias, drug cartels and criminal gangs. |
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This shopkeeper takes me to see a former government official who was tasked with beating tribals used for road gangs in the Karen state, in far eastern Burma. |
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Men worked on road gangs, though before long labour shortages led Ottawa to encourage them to move eastwards to Central Canadian manufacturing plants. |
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Virtually all the southwestern gangs of Mexican heritage are under their control. |
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According to the indictment, it is part of a network of Latino gangs controlled by La Eme. |
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Some were lynched and many others brought before the courts where they were convicted and sentenced to long terms working on county chain and highway gangs. |
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Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities? |
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Despite the proven utility of convict road gangs for construction work, the postwar trend was definitely headed in the direction of maintenance work. |
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Yes, there were gangs in Port-au-Prince fighting low-intensity turf wars in the slums. |
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The scheme, which has been welcomed by councillors, residents and the police, aims to tackle the problem of gangs of bored teenagers often gathering and intimidating people. |
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In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening. |
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Large gangs are more likely to have the money to be successful bribers. |
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Hollywood decided this part of the world was all about the lone sheriff facing gangs of gunmen and innocent settlers fending off marauding Indians. |
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The containers were reportedly on their way to China via Spain from Togo, a popular destination for armed gangs to smuggle ivory. |
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In prison and on the streets they are one of the most feared gangs in America. |
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Street battles between rival gangs of toughs are now reportedly raging in cities around the country. |
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The animal was much misunderstood, dobie claimed, and was only dangerous when it ran in packs or gangs, like people. |
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I did not hang around with gangs, did not do drugs and for the previous twelve months I shared a small flat with my grandmum and played countless games of canasta. |
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His threatening, brooding black and white shots of the gangs of North London brought him to the attention of newspapers and he was soon working for the Sunday Times. |
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He thus appears to remain sufficiently light on his feet to duck frequent fights with his wives, his business competitors, criminal gangs and communist cadres. |
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They have devised a system of robotics in which welding, riveting and beam placement are carried out by a few computer operators rather than by gangs of construction workers. |
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Recent fears that something between the gangs was brewing came to light about a month ago when associates of the opposing gangs tussled in central Rotorua. |
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Decaying gangs of the shambling undead fire out words and phrases at you, and you have to hammer them back, quickly, accurately, desperately, typing for your life. |
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He passed one of the youth gangs on the way, muttering into their phones and thumbing at their keyboards, coordinating their crimefighting activities. |
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These children, raised in impoverished communities, must contend with gangs, violence, poverty, and many other impairing social factors that create negative self-concepts. |
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It appears to be yobbery and does not appear to be organised gangs. |
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We'd usually cycle in gangs, groups of friends yakking away as we made our way to our respective parts of the village, peeling off from the pack as we reached our roads. |
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There are more gangs of 'townies' hanging around Blackburn who are damaging surroundings and disturbing the peace, but do I see them being told to move? |
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On every street corner, gangs of female money changers wave fat wads of kwanzas in the air, the fluctuating exchange rate testimony to the vagaries of the war economy. |
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This is ostensibly aimed at breaking up gangs, but is gravely misguided. |
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Sayyed, who never went to school, was one of the laborers hired by organized gangs to loot. |
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They called for a day of peace between warring street gangs. |
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Resources are hard-pressed, but Lithuanian authorities are working closely with British and other European police forces to gather intelligence to capture gangs. |
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Sligo's drugs gangs having more guns is a worrying development. |
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Instead, paramilitary gangs carve out fiefdoms to exploit drug-dealing and protection rackets, while young people look up to these criminals as role models. |
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Statues, old stone troughs, urns, grain store mushrooms, garden seats, limestone pavements and even complete fountains are all being targeted by organised gangs. |
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You may remember Sanchez, the director of Homies Unidos, a binational group working to broker a peace between rival gangs here and in El Salvador. |
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There are chain gangs and juke joints and no interest in career. |
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The planners and tunnel gangs had done their job with impressive skill. |
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The desperate peace moves came as gangs armed with guns and machetes rampaged through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince in the latest outbreak of violence there. |
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Group Four security staff were threatened and intimidated as gangs of detainees, some of them sporting home-made masks rampaged through the complex, the court was told. |
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It will mean extra officers being assigned to the Regional Crime Unit which focuses on cross-border crime, including burglary gangs and cashpoint tricksters. |
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At first it was the gangs they feared, then it was trigger-happy cops. |
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In their eagerness to surpass their rivals, friendly competition between fire companies deteriorated into daily skirmishes and riots between gangs of dandies and rowdies. |
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Over the past four years, 13 newsmen have been killed in the country's crime-ridden southwest, assassinated by crime gangs some police believe are linked to political groups. |
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Criminal gangs with shotcallers in China, including Triad groups such as the Wo Hop To, have been reported active in San Francisco. |
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Even supporters of legitimate bloodsports are vehemently opposed to the gangs who operate outside the law. |
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In this episode we also meet the most colourful primates the mandrills, loud black howler monkeys and gangs of rhesus macaques. |
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Much of the violence is blamed on organized crime, particularly gangs, known as maras or pandillas. |
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I have always been consistent in saying that I am concerned it glamorises gangs and the impact this will have on the people of Birmingham. |
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In many cases gangs use bribery, cyberhacking, and other methods to infiltrate police departments for information or intelligence. |
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He also systematized aqueduct maintenance with gangs of specially trained workmen. |
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The Commune sent gangs of National Guardsmen and fereres into the prisons to kill 10 or more victims, mostly nonjuring priests. |
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The basic push mower mechanism is also used in gangs towed behind a tractor. |
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Violent gangs of the urban unemployed, controlled by rival Senators, intimidated the electorate through violence. |
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Some 3,000 served during the Napoleonic wars from 1800 to 1815 and press gangs were rife. |
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Examples could include hacker communities, bands of thieves, and street gangs. |
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The 20th century saw a rise in the Mafia, dominated by the Five Families, as well as in gangs, including the Black Spades. |
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Drug gangs have manipulated this, using vacuums in local leadership to their own advantage. |
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He had trouble fitting in at the school, and discovered gangs and rock and roll. |
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While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the notorious Valdor gang, one of the most ruthless gangs in the city. |
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Men would maim themselves to avoid the press gangs, while many deserted at the first opportunity. |
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The name was originally explained on the event's website as being inspired by 1974 Ozploitation film, Stone, about motor bike gangs. |
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The 1990s saw extreme corruption and lawlessness, the rise of criminal gangs and violent crime. |
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Since 2001, over 300 people have been killed in feuds between different drugs gangs, dissident republicans, and Traveller families. |
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The plow gangs followed behind, stirring the soil near the rows of cotton plants and tossing it back around the plants. |
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Dozens of Chinese sugar traders went bankrupt which led to massive unemployment, which in turn led to gangs of unemployed coolies. |
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In 1740, rumours of deportation of the gangs from the Batavia area led to widespread rioting. |
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Male convicts served their sentences as assigned labour to free settlers or in gangs assigned to public works. |
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In 2011, the government established a truce among many major gangs, lowering the murder rate. |
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Contractors hired gangs of Irish immigrant laborers to build levees and sometimes clear land. |
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Boys from the various slum areas would form themselves into gangs of 'laaities' and would jealously protect their areas of operation. |
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In June, 11 crew members of the MV Albedo were released by pirate gangs after a ransom was paid. |
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There are Yardie and East European gangs dealing drugs and buying and selling women. |
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It took a Yorkshirewoman to bring the scandal to public attention and turn the tide against the gangs. |
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More than a century ago, gangs of burly men would lay railroad ties at a snail's pace, driving them in with sledgehammers. |
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A number of bank accounts across the country have been hit by the gangs using random number generators. |
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The gangs include Party Girl Gang, Rocker Glam Gang, Coachella Boho Gang and Uptown Sophisticate Gang. |
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There has been an increase in the amount of violence instigated by gangs. |
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The haul is part of a multi-million pound cigarette and fuel smuggling racket involving the Provisional IRA and criminal gangs. |
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These gangs will do anything for money and come mob-handed in case they are approached. |
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That is where the subordinate gangs like Big Hazard come in. |
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The latest virus, called Cyberlocker, involves gangs of hackers from eastern Europe who are holding PC users' data to ransom. |
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For example, an apprenticeship program pays young people to learn skills, like stonecutting, and deters them from gangs or drugs. |
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Prison gangs can also exert their influence on street gang activity outside of the prison. |
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The police have received complaints from local bodies that dacoit gangs were seeking a cut in the funds allocated for development schemes. |
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But there is growing evidence to link gang rapes to inner-city gun gangs, who are said to use the attacks as a rite of passage to their ranks. |
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One Midlands youth worker, who did not want to be named, said he was aware street gangs in Birmingham were involved in gang-rapes. |
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In addition to educating people about the reality of gangs, the tours create jobs in depressed communities and bring attention to the destructiveness of gangbanging. |
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Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood. |
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Riyadh police have captured 12 members of four gangs for allegedly stealing over SR5 million in cash, electronic devices, cars and prepaid phone cards in separate incidents. |
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But the problem here is that the vandalism takes place mainly during the hours of dusk and darkness, when the winos, drug abusers and teenage gangs congregate. |
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Police had been called to deal with drunken yobs whot hreatened passers-by, but the arrest ofthreeof the gangs parked chaos in the sprawling estate. |
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Often the perpetrators of these crimes are gangs of street children. |
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Elections then were rowdy events with candidates having their gangs of supporters threatening each other with basters which was in fact a harmless activity. |
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He had been from one of our old rival enemy gangs. My oldheads had told me the history of all the oldheads who got killed on the battlefield, which wasn't many. |
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In 1977, an ongoing rivalry between two Chinese gangs led to a shooting attack at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown, which left 5 people dead and 11 wounded. |
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Groups of us wartime youngsters tended to gather in parochial street gangs, and to be an official member of the Yew Tree Road gang necessitated walking the bank boards. |
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The loose regulation over the transportation of illegal drugs and the failure to prosecute known drug traffickers and gangs increased the growth of the drug industry. |
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Nine out of 10 towns are plagued by travelling salesmen linked to foreign criminal gangs selling shoddy toys, clothes and jewellery, often by intimidation. |
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Military stockpiles were looted with impunity by criminal gangs, with much of the hardware ending up in western Kosovo and boosting the growing KLA arsenal. |
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Undocumented immigrants from those three nations were caught by la migra and sent back home, and mareros belonging to those two gangs also began to be forcibly returned. |
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Even though homicides are the least suppressible of crimes, Bratton said he believes the low rate this year was because of efforts to control gangs. |
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Clay is hospitalised after being shot by Opie, and when Tig assumes the Niners were behind the attack, his vengeful actions place the two gangs in a state of war. |
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Marooned navy officers, consisting mostly of Cantonese and Hokkien tribesmen, set up their small gangs near river estuaries, mainly to protect themselves. |
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Police officers who routinely come face to face with masked gangs believe they are selling video footage of the violence to foreign television channels. |
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The violence, which now mostly involves street gangs, has forced thousands of refugees to seek shelter in churches, religious missions, aid camps and at Dili airport. |
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The shogunate granted the tekiya status that was roughly equivalent to that of the Samurai in order to reduce fraud and the possibility of turf wars among the gangs. |
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We have read all the news in the papers about the problems with gangs around Norris Green and other areas setting dogs on people and things like that. |
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Rice wants to see a coordinated, robust effort to prevent youths from joining gangs, help lure them out of gangs, and put an end to the self-destructive gang culture. |
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The Yardies are an international crime syndicate and there have been scores of murders in London linked to them as gangs fight for control of the crack cocaine market. |
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The site has named numerous locations throughout Wales as being home to gangs of chavs, including Cardiff, Newport, Caerphilly, Cwmbran, Rhyl and Tonyrefail. |
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