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UK: When guns break out of the ghetto
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"Croydon, Reading, the market town of Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire - these are not places one associates with gangs, drugs and murder. But they have all experienced drive-by killings in recent months."
"News of such shootings has become depressingly familiar from places such as Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool, and London boroughs such as Hackney ..."
"But drive-by shootings in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire? Unfortunately, yes - they now happen even there. A 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in the head outside his home in High Wycombe. The tentacles of gun and gang culture have, it seems, started to envelop places that might once have been thought immune." ...
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Interesting graphic with the article. Note the figures for gun crimes in England and Wales (not including Scotland and Ireland):
2000-01: 7,362
2001-02: 9,974
2002-03: 10,248
2003-04: 25,000
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