Friday, August 12, 2011

David Cameron has announced he will extend US-style gang injunctions

The prime minister said gang injunctions – introduced in January in some areas – would be extended to the rest of country, and would cover juveniles as well. The civil injunctions can bar individuals from consorting with gangs, wearing regalia or using the internet to organise meet-ups. Cameron said: "Territorial, hierarchical and incredibly violent, the gangs are mostly composed of young boys, mainly from dysfunctional homes. They earn money through crime and are bound together by an imposed loyalty to an authoritarian gang leader. They have blighted life on their estates, with gang-on-gang murders and unprovoked attacks on police."

Picture: Rocco Ritchie, covering himself with a jacket. Leaving the London Kabbalah centre with his bodyguard.