Emerging Gang Culture in London

[Funki mamma]

I went to a 'flagship' comp in Wales in the 70s. All the kids in the top streams

came from familys with 'proffessional' parents, i.e middleclass. The kids in

the lower stream were from the big estate near the school. Me included, I

left school at 14 with no qualificatons, no confidence, no future. The same

can be said of todays schooling system. I was an angry young punk, joined

a band got involved with drugs big time. A lot of my friends got into

prostitution, and other criminal activity. My point being that this has always

been the case, the 'criminal underclass' has just become larger and more

desperate. Technological advances have also meant easier communication

et all. Imagine how different the outcomes of the uprisings in the 80s would

have been if we had mobile phones, and the weapons of today.

 

[london manz]

Originally Posted by niksativa
Manz ~ your forum http://www.setbb.com/englandgangfor...englandgangforu seems to me to be a place to glorify and romanticise gangs ~ how does having a forum all about gang-spotting and tag-watching help any?

Glorification.......Newspeak

theres many sites glorifying gangs and giving information on them that fail to talk about prevention, i think the london one is more positive than many others that are on the net for instance;

http://www.pollwizard.com/14354

http://www.gangland.net/

http://www.geocities.com/glasgow_gangs/home.html

http://www.streetgangs.com/billboard/

http://www.streetgangs.com/

http://www.ganglandnews.com/

now if you look at the sites that the london gangs advertise youll see its not a place of glorification;

http://www.gangstyle.com/

http://www.stoptheguns.org/

http://www.met.police.uk/trident/

http://www.gangsorus.com/

http://www.gangsandkids.com/

http://www.met.police.uk/gun_crime_strategy/guncrime_brochurev2.pdf

and the first thing you see on the main page is a clear advert from the met stating DONT LET GUNS AND DRUGS R.I.P. YOUR FAMILY APART

MPA-STAND UP AND STAMP DOWN ON MURDER and three of the first 5 pages listed on the site concern prevention

the only negative to the site in my view is the guestbook which is used by young wannabes to big up there crews and the list of gangs page where the same young wannabes add their gangs which are often just groups of unruly anti social youths that arent really gangs