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Originally Posted by armand.kay
More funding for youth programs and after school organisations. Gangs prey on young people who have no other family structure or those who feel left out by society. We need to make young people realise there is a life for them outside of gang culture, that their life is worth so much more and that there is a place for them in our society.
Stop and search creates climate in which black men are presumed to be guilty and are told that they must constantly have their privacy violated by police in order to prove themselves innocent. I really can't see how putting more policemen on the streets to humiliate and harass black people will do anything but make them feel more alienated.
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Speaking from experience of being a kid, where I grew up, on a council estate in Hull, we didn't need funding or youth programmes, we just needed a football and we was happy. Stabbing people never entered our minds at any point.