This has happened in Glasgow. I heard a US expert say on 5Live this morning: you cant arrest your way out of this problem. They just come back out onto the streets a year later and take up where they left off. The model is the Boston Ceasefire Project.
I wonder whether cause and effect are being confused here. Time for some research funding?
This blog has noted how gang culture is expanding throughout the UK. This is intimidation worthy of the Congo or Darfur. But we have also seen how gang culture can expand in jails, particular examples coming from the U.S., but parallels beginning to appear under the aegis of jihadist groups in UK jails. So send … GANG RAPISTS OF GIRL, 14, NAMED
A word of warning on this, in that it is a story that only the Guardian is pursuing seriously over here. Your blogger was not allowed to use BAE- pinochet deals as a case study in a report to a client. So it is all “alleged” m’lud. If you go to the December 5th story … BAE ACCUSED OF £100M SECRET PAYMENTS TO SECURE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMS DEAL
Trial of an undercover agent who allegedly changed sides. Or did he? Murky story of the use of Irish-American gangsters against Italian-American gangsters. How complicit was the FBI leadership> Already made a good film. The books will be out as soon as the trial is over. An IRA dimension to the allegations as well
The maths always did seem wrong and at least two gunmen seemed to disappear from the timeline-style accounts. All we can be certain of is that there will be more arrests.
BBC TV was suggesting an East European connection as the jewellery will be easier to sell there.
Not really sure which source to use for this story. The decision was unanimous. Judges from 17 countries including the UK agreed that keeping data indefinitely on people not even convicted was against human rights. Another “no-brainer”. Thew Home Office could have followed Scottish practice and there would never have been a case. Lazy politicians … DNA DATABASE BREACH OF RIGHTS
Family and neighbour disputes more frequent reason for denunciation than Jewishness. An awful warning of how petty people can be and why police power has to be controlled…in the Torygraph even!
This Guardian article includes a statement from the acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Ive not bothered to blog this affair, although it may yet turn out to involve crimes of the powerful. I suspect, however, that the real struggle is about the succession to Sir Ian Blair, but just who i up to what … REPORT ON DAMIAN GREEN ARREST SENT TO CPS
