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...also returned to foreign shores, with a concert in Staten Island, New York, and celebrations in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo and the Brazilian town of, well, Garibaldi. But in case anyone thought this was just dusty nostalgia, it turns out that the very face of 21st century youth is a fan of the Italian. "Garibaldi is my favorite hero," said Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, in a recent Italian magazine interview. "In my final exam I wrote about Garibaldi and Italian unification. Actually, there was also the German (unification), but Italy's is much more heroic...
...Last year the government committed $NZ10 million over four years for youth workers and services for high-risk youth. Police set up six-man "youth action teams" who speed to outbreaks of gang violence and arrest troublemakers. The aim is to get the youngsters charged with breaches of the peace with bail conditions that will take them off the streets at night. Says Inspector Jason Hewett, the policing development manager: "The goal is for zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have...
...evening with one of the youth action teams last month shows that police still have much to do to bring the streets to heel. Gangs of teenage boys are skirmishing over a 1-sq.-km patch of turf in south Auckland. In Electra Place, officers Ott and Stevenson find a bare-chested youth holding a blood-soaked cloth to a 3-cm slash above one eye; his friend is screaming about a gang attack. The victim says the knife wielder has run off into a house a few doors down the street. "The guy with the knife could still...
...Crime statistics reveal that in one four-month period in 2005, KBZ were responsible for almost 10% of crimes for the Counties Manukau East. One member has committed more than 100 burglaries. Two youth gangs known as Troublesome and the Bud Smoking Thugs are feeder gangs to The Killer Beez. Then there are the charmingly named "Motherf_____ Ruthless C___s," or MRCs. "The MRCs are known to the people in the area as bullies who use standover tactics to get money. They are also big on threatening people, snatching handbags and doing burglaries," says the intelligence report...
...Youth worker Paea has spent 25 years working with troubled children in the Manukau area. "When I'm here to observe my school [where he is a counselor] there's a Killer Bee standing at the corner shop selling drugs, and a lot of kids see them stoned," he says. The youths show no respect even to older gangs: several months earlier Paea tried to break up a territorial dispute between the Killer Beez and the local Black Power chapter. "It was like something out of the movies," he says. "I heard they were all down at this park...