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...would be happy never to hear of any of them again. "I get completely sick of them," he says. The youth gang members, sporting baseball hats, baggy trousers and colored scarves, are armed and hyper-aggressive, and speak in a rapper idiom straight out of south-central Los Angeles. Ott mimics their delivery: "I'd like to say to these kids, 'Hey, wake up, bro. You are not going to bust a cap in my mo'fo' ass. You live in a suburban street in Counties Manukau...
...series of tit-for-tat drive-by shootings that left a toddler dead; meanwhile the country's juvenile gangs have emerged as a new force in crime, linked to eight killings and many hundreds of other violent crimes in the past two years. Sully Paea is a youth worker who tries to reform young gang members. "We've already lost one generation to the gangs," he says. "The generation we are working with now-the 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds-some of them are hard-core, already gone. These kids are cold...
...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...