Posts Tagged ‘Hackney’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266478/Girl-16-dies-shot-neck-takeaway-drug-turf-war.html Terrible news, I wonder if anything will be reported on the stabbings in Clapton this past week. I haven’t heard anything in the media yet, or on the street on the boy from youth church’s condition. Just shows the narrow line of incidents are being reported, and totally ignoring the majority of the problem [...]
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Tags: crime, dead, gang, girl 16, Hackney, hoxton, turf war
Gang Turfs
I found this shocking interactive google map showing the different gang ‘turfs’ in East London. This first shot shows a large area of all the gang lands highlighted: These two below show the TWO gangs in the area in the place where I live and am shooing my documentary. The red circle indicated where I [...]
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Tags: Clapton, crime, East London, Gangs, Hackney, Postcode, Postcode Wars
I found this article on The Hackney Post, which albeit posted 13 months ago shows an attempt to use art and art therapy to bridge the gap between postcode wars. Young people caught up in Hackney’s postcode wars have been given the chance to express themselves through paint. A project called Inner Art is being [...]
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Tags: Art Threapy, Banksy, E5, E8, Graffiti, Hackney, postcode warfare, The Hackney Post
Stabbed Update
An update of the boy from youth church who was stabbed during a ‘postcode gang war’ on Saturday. We have just found out he was actually stabbed 9 times, no news of yet on his condition.
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Tags: E5, East London, Gangs, Hackney, postcode warfare, Stabbed, violence
Statistics and Figures
List of shocking figures and statistics: Two SOAs in Hackney are in the top most deprived 2% nationally, Hackney 019A (around Homerton High St), in Chatham ward, and Hackney 026D (around Wenlock Street and Murray Grove) in Hoxton. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00AM-A.asp
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Tags: crime, Deprivation, Facts, Hackney, Statistics
Crime in Hackney – Video
I found this video online, which is a documentary about post-code wars in hackney made in 2007. There is also a supporting webpage here. One of the featured teenagers, Joseph Pilgrim, is actually someone I know, and went so school with. The film made by BBC Inside Out London, tells the story of postcode gangs, [...]
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Tags: crime, E5, East London, Hackney, postcode warfare, violence
