The hope that theyll get a job and a legal means of making money. The police also hope that they will cut Violent Crime on our streets. But will it work . Or will these young people who have often had a very difficult upbringing be lured back to their bad ways . I was expecting a few more of these on the pitch today. We got some last three games because we havent had, all weekend. Wheres clint . Were fifth . That aint good enough. We are better than that. These days, the only shooting Clinton Wilson is involved and comes Clinton Wilson is involved in comes on the football pitch. But in the 1990s, he was the leader of the aggi crew, one of the most feared gangs in the country. It started the same as most gangs in the ghettos. Just me and two of my friends. And we were just going around doing badness on the street. Mischief. Robberies. Just trying to make money. We were the tightest gaming that they had ever seen. We loved each other in those the main thing in it. So everyone knew that they were safe as in, no one could trouble us without repercussions. The relationship between the police and the community was difficult. Attem pts and the community was difficult. Atte m pts to and the community was difficult. Attempts to enforce the law led to the uprising of 1980. And more violence six years later, during a raid on the black and white cafe. The hub of drug dealing on the front line. Distrust of the authorities was passed through generations. It is the 80s became the 90s, many young people in st. Pauls still felt they lacked opportunities. Why didnt you just go and get a job . Like everyone else . When i was 15 and 16, i was offered jobs, used to cut hair, but all i was being offered as a young man was, £25 a week. So, in my eyes, i was i doing that. For two years, £25 a week. Work every day and then get all those mine. It was like wasting time. Because you cannot live on £25 a week and youre worth more than £25 a week. So the way the aggi crew decided to make money was to take it from other people. Even if that meant using violence. Something clinton now regrets. Youll make we we re clinton now regrets. Youll make we were prepared to do anything to anybody. Every we are going up to do things, it was about how much money we could get that was it. But it became clear there are more lucrative money making opportunities in st. Pauls than street robbery. £100 then, ten stones, 16. I got a phone call and it was a maid and he said it was some and at the bottom of the road who wants one of those things. So ijust of the road who wants one of those things. So i just left of the road who wants one of those things. So ijust left and i rolled it up the road, came back with 20 quid. You have to think like, before this, we might be out all day for 25. He had about four orfive people and gota 25. He had about four orfive people and got a fiver between ten of us. The aggi crew were already well known to the authorities for their robberies but they soon became the main players and bristols class a drug market and the occasional £20 sale of of crack turned into a multi pond business, there was no bigger target for the police. They saw the effects of the epidemic within the city, there were fairly significant drug markets and it resulted in violence on the streets. And that was from a range of murder, to all forms of violence. For the Somerset Police, he was an officer and east bristol when the gang was at its peak. In the drug war on his patch saw guns being carried on both sides. To comment on the level of violence that the aggi crew in our ciew violence that the aggi crew in our crew had, why make out the first time a British Force of done that was blue i believe so, yes. We would only take the gun out if were going to shoot somebody. So shot people you shot people . I never shot anyone, no. All of this would be full of people. Mainly outside of the club. Which was the cafe . This one here. The police hoped that getting the aggi crew off the front line would give them the opportunity to stop the scourge of crack cocaine that was blocking the area. But clifton thinks differently. If i leave this line today, there are no less drugs being sold out here. I am just not selling them. Trust me. There is no taking me and drugs off the road. No, no, no. All they are doing is stopping my money, they are not stopping drugs. The users are not stopping drugs. The users are not going to go, we want do it any more. They come down here the same way, they dont have to see me, the little see someone else. They did not take any drugs off the streets by locking me up. You went to prison for ten years . More than that. How much did they change your life . Dramatically. Because that is a long time. The first time i went was seven years, the second time i went was five years, 12 years of my life. 0bviously, anyone who loses 12 years is going to change. I wouldnt say prison rehabilitated me and taught me new skills and taught me how to think differently or nothing like that, i done that all myself. Prison didnt teach me nothing, it was just wasting my time. For many gang members, trying to breakfree is near impossible. Clinton spent many years in prison, some of his friends are still inside and will be for the rest of their lives. But one former member of the aggi crew paid the ultimate price. He was murdered in december 2017, and i reported on it. Too many young men losing their lives, too many families having to go through what we have experienced. Clinton lost a friend that day. Leila powell lost her brother and solomon powell lost his son. Jama powell was stabbed. Do you think his death might actually be a warning to some people . I think that probably made a couple of people put their knife in their pocket the next day. Do you worry that you might be next, that you might be a target . Yeah, of course, but i am not going to stop walking on the street or stop coming out of the house, do you know what i am trying to say . This is what you will live with, these are the things youve got to live with. Nothing will bring that young man back. I met with the parents, i saw the absolute distress that theyve gone through, what words could i say as a Police Officer that would make things right . You can always say we will do our best. Whatever words i said would never be enough, and i think the community have stood back and realised that enough is enough, and thankfully now the communities of east bristol are pulling together. Theyve always been a very tight community but i think the death ofjama resonated across that area. I am just praying for peace right now really in bristol among the youth. I have got a son, he is seven, if you think about the younger ones, their future, what is going to happen, its really sad. We dont want this happening on a regular basis, to see people coming morning a life because of knife crime, it is so sad. So he says hes put his criminal lifestyle behind him. He wants young people being promised a life of easy money for selling crack or heroin to think again. If somebody came to me and said, look, you dont have to go to jail. I know you did that, a mistake, you know what i mean, but we can maybe do something through certain things, you can get around that. Avon and Somerset Police as call in scheme is based on an american project and is a one of a kind in england. One of the mentoring programmes used in the call in is a street its run by clayton planter, a st pauls boy who took a different path in life to clinton. I remember looking at the aggi crew and clinton when i was younger, he was leader of the group. I realised these guys were doing things the wrong way but they had leadership. He had something about him. For him to do what he did at that young age, i realised people in the corporate industry were doing things in the right way but exactly the same things. Looking at somebody from the street like clinton, he has the product, the drugs. He has his crew. The culprit has a team. He is the boss man. The corporate has the manager. They make money, lose money. Corporate people, profit and loss. Street people go to prison, or you in the corporate industry you go bankrupt and lose theirjob. What ive realised is if you have the right mentor and have the right belief, you can achieve anything. Surround yourself with those people. These kids are not too far gone, they are not. They are talking about positive things, you know what im trying to say . The future, they are chatting about the future, which they probably dont really do very often to be honest. Done, the fact they are thinking about this today, all brainstorming together, coming up with good ideas. Its like a rotating door, and theres no point sending them to prison when they dont have skills to come back out and survive anyway. Like myself. You end up going back and forth, back and forth, until in the end out here becomes probably a lot harder to live in than inside. What would success look like for the call in . One man who has turned his life around is roger moore, who went through the street to boardroom programme a couple of years ago. He had a long immigration struggle and didnt have the right to work in the uk so ended up selling drugs just to make some money. Getting involved in that is risk. For some people its life and death. I thought at the time i didnt have a choice. Because you couldnt get a normaljob . I couldnt get a normaljob so i couldnt depend on my mum. Im a big man, what do i do . Its not something i wanted to do or glorify or i was proud of, but i didnt know another way to make a living, so unfortunately i had to get involved in that for a while until things changed. It was only when the situation escalated that roger realised he needed to get out of that way of life. Someone pulled a gun on me and that put things in perspective for me. I sort of dropped it immediately after that situation. It was easy for me to let it go because i saw what that lifestyle leads to. Either prison or the grave, and i didnt want either of those things. After attending a street to boardroom course and receiving guidance and support from clayton and his expert mentors, roger has achieved his dream of opening his own caribbean restaurant in bristol. I think it needs to be as easy to get involved in business and learn trade and entrepreneurship as it is easy to pick up a knife, as easy as it is to get involved in drugs or any criminal activity. There needs to be doors that are open for people of my background. When you look at roger moore, he came from the course and he is a bastian for street to boardroom. He is believable, youre not talking about it, they can see it. He is the ceo of his own restaurant. Gary wants to see rogers Success Story replicated by other young people facing similar challenges. Given those that have committed a crime an opportunity to see the misjudgement they have made. Giving them the tools within their toolkit, giving them a mentor and some guidance, put them in key, mandatory courses with clayton and people like that, so they can see the error of their ways and perhaps understand crime isnt always the way. Give them the opportunity, how to apply for a job and seek further education. Give them basic life skills that perhaps were not available at the time. Young kids all across the country are getting involved in drug dealing and gangs and some of them are carrying knives. Tonight i have come to an inner city bristol Youth Project to meet a young boy called zac. He is only 1a but he has already been in trouble with the police. We have changed his name and voice to protect his identity. How did you get involved in drug dealing in the first place . I know people take drugs. Its just easy. I know where to get it from, from weed to heroin, crack, cocaine, pills. Ijust wanted to make quick change, quick money. Why was it so easy . Because coming from the place i come from, its just one of those things you are supposed to know, are expected to know. When you say coming from the place like youve come from, talk to me about your life. Places where there is like poverty, drug addicts, single mothers, everything. What kind of things have you been through in your life. You are only 1a. Ive experienced family members being killed, my dad being injail, family members being injail, being poor. What kind of things were going on in yourfamily . You talked about your cousin who was shot. What happened and how did you feel . What happened and how did that make you feel . Some people came to his house and shot him. It was sad when i heard about it, but then after i was like, ijust got on with it. It was just normal. What kind of things have you been offered to sell drugs . Hundreds, thousands of pounds. Zac says he doesnt carry a knife but he knows people that do. He says the reason is they do are not what the media would have you believe. They are making out young people look like theyjust carry knives because they just want to hurt people, sort of thing, or that they are troubled or crazy. Its not really like that, to be honest, no. So why are young people carrying knives in the way that they were not before . I dont know, for protection, i dont know. I cant speak on the past generation but its just for protection. How easy do you think it would be to get away from the drugs and the money and the danger and say, i can be a 14 year old and i can live a safer life . All i know is just being in the streets. I dont know, like, i cant see myself working a normal nine to five. But i can see myself doing stuff thats wrong. Which is obviously kind of messed up, but. When you meet zac you realise just how young these kids are. Hes14 and at school, yet he talks about knives and guns and murder is as if they are all just completely normal. It makes you wonder what he will be like when he is say, 16, 18, and whether projects like the call in are simply too late for him. For so many Different Reasons people make the wrong decision in life. And they get a criminal conviction. So what we have done in bristol east is trying to think of a number of diversion schemes that will stop people making that wrong decision that will either end up in their injury or a criminal conviction or could ultimately end up in somebodys death. The knife carrying issue is not going away. We still continue to have one too many young people injured from violence and knife related criminality. What would you say to the people you hurt . Because they want a sorry from you. I would say im very, very sorry. Definitely, to the people i hurt, the people i robbed, even. It wasnt theirfault, you know what i mean. How important is it people like clinton are involved in trying to help other young people . My personal opinion, it is hugely important because for somebody like clinton to come forward and say crime hasnt paid for him, isnt that a lesson for everybody who takes that journey . I would love to try and change some stuff around bristol. Just to help the youth, give them some insight into this thing, the real thing. Find the real thing. Help them from being in gangs, yeah, fighting about nothing and going to prison. I just believe that enough of these kids are doing this thing because they are scared. Street to boardroom, we broke that down real quick. Thats what its about, a mentality, nothing else. Thats what we are trying to change. If you can change the mentality, you change a whole heap of things in this area. Some people will question whether these young people should be given a second chance. They have committed the crime, so they should do the time. But the Police Say One mistake shouldnt define the rest of their lives. We know that one person on the call in has already been kicked off for reoffending. Its now down to the others to take this opportunity and break free from a life of crime. Could this be a real answer to the problems weve got with knife crime and gangs and young people . I think it will make a difference. But im invested into it so im naturally biased towards it. Ultimately for me, the risk is we allow that young people to go back to prison, and be criminals again. Or do we invest in that person. Dont get me wrong, i have met people in prison where i think, they should be in prison and they shouldnt be let out. There are people in the world like this. But the majority of people you meet, they have just gone down the wrong path and dont know what to do. If we get one success then its worth investing into. For me to take that one young person who could be a victim or perpetrator, but to give that young person an opportunity is surely a successful story. If i could help one guy, just one of them, then have i not done something good . Hello there. 0ver hello there. Over the next week or so, were going to fluctuate between northwesterly winds and south westerly winds. So everything coming from the atlantic means it is going to remain very unsettled. We see a lot of rain recently in Northern Ireland and in scotland, couple of inches over the hills and it is all from that area of low pressure and that weather front associated with it. It starts to move on saturday on the rain band pushing into england and wales, very quickly clearing away into Northern Ireland with sunshine and showers here, the rain lingers longer than others scotland and that rain band sweeps towards england and east anglia, the last of the remaining warmth for a while, temperatures to 23 to 24, warmth for a while, temperatures to 23 to 2a, sunshine coming in the air is getting cooler and fresher because wind direction is changing and we are going to draw and rather than the south westerly and northwesterly. Maritime air, colder airand northwesterly. Maritime air, colder air and fresher northwesterly. Maritime air, colder airand fresherairand northwesterly. Maritime air, colder air and fresher air and sunshine and showers. For the first day of meteorological autumn, the 1st of september. It will feel of it more like autumn with lots of showers in the northern half of the uk, some heavy infantry, a few showers getting into south england and wales, for they may sneak up to england and wales but we are sitting to 15 to 16 and it gets colder overnight because the showers push their way out into the north sea as this ridge of High Pressure builds in temporarily and eases the winds down, drops the temperatures into monday morning it could be five to 7 degrees in cities, but chillier than that in the countryside. We start on a colder note but many places drive some sunshine and other northwesterly is, we pick up the south westerly is the day goes on and that means more cloud coming up the atlantic in the atlantic and amid some rain for Northern Ireland and scotland, especially western scotla nd and scotland, especially western scotland where we may find this temperatures with a degree or so higher on monday. But still no great shape. South westerly winds on tuesday, and it will be quite brisk and will find some thickening cloud and will find some thickening cloud and some showers with long spells of rain, mainlyfor and some showers with long spells of rain, mainly for western parts of the uk and the looks of largely dry towards the southeast of england we re towards the southeast of england were temperatures into the low 20s at best. Some weather fronts on the scene and everything coming in from the atlantic on tuesday again, that second weather front is likely to bring some rain towards england and wales which could be quite heavy for a while and that weather front moves through in the rain band moves through in the rain band moves through and will be back into northwesterly winds. Cooler air, fresher air, sunshine and showers, northwest with some thundering once, for the south missing most of those and on wednesday, very similar to those we are expecting on sunday. Further in the field before we look further ahead, this is hurricane dorian. It is still tracking towards florida, it is still going to be a major hurricane but is slowing down and because it is slowing down, it will have less impact on us further ahead, and we also have this very deep area of low pressure moving at the northeastern parts of canada. That downstream will intensify this area of High Pressure and build it, but it is sitting to the subtlest of the uk. We will draw in longer spells of rain and around the top of that area of High Pressure, keep it u nsettled that area of High Pressure, keep it unsettled and keep more of a north northwesterly wind even to the start of next weekend, warmer air and eventually we would tap into that, but still on the cool side. Tonight at ten a major cash injection for englands schools the Prime Minister pledges billions of pounds over the next three years. It comes after warnings by parents and teachers of a Funding Crisis in schools and colleges. 0ne head gave it a cautious welcome. I think it will make an enormous difference. I think the devil will be in the detail. It will be interesting to see how much money we get next year rather than how much money we get in three years, because costs rise. Well be asking how the government is going to pay for it and if this is the clearest sign yet that a general election could be on the way. Also this evening another lesson, this time to mps trying to block a no deal Brexit Boris Johnson says theyre actually making it more likely. Why experts are warning that hrt for the menopause carries
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