Moggy wrote:I’m not making the claims, the onus is not on me to dissect an entire report.
However, the report focuses on one gang. It’s therefore only relevant to one gang and not to the ethnic composition of ALL gangs.
The report goes on to focus on that one gang, but looks at a myriad of gangs, because they are the most influential & dangerous, subsuming many other gangs in the process.
One gang, the Mali boys, featured strongly in the data obtained by young people and professionals...the Mali Boys were discussed more than all of the remaining gangs combined. Consequently, they will be discussed in a separate section at the end of the chapter.
"The Malis are a whole new entity. Those people come from these countries where they're pirates, and people are gang raped and beat up and it's all in front of them, they're ex soldiers, they're seeing people's heads get blown off...Even if they're not born there, their mums and dads have been raised by people who this has happened to and they're just products of these things, and so they feel they can come to here and do it here, this pirate thing, this whole 'we're taking over the ship'" (Participant, 21, young person)
This particularly rich quote from a young person captures a key idea expressed by other participants...