i think ijust gave in after a while. i was so naive. ididn t. it was, yes, yes, yes, 0k. and if they told me, get on my knees, i was on my knees. and that was the situation i went with. seeing people get kettled, like, with boiling water. i ve seen people get stabbed because of the littlest disagreement over things like £20. £20, people are getting hurt for. that s all that s left, really, is the memory of them. county lines is just one element of gang culture, which can start with music, image, street swagger but can end in tragedy. one little wound to kill somebody. having to put a knife in your pocket because you re feeling scared, having a knife in your pocket to protect yourself, to protect others. it s no way to live.
loss, and communities in grief and shock. i feel absolutely gutted. ijust want more workers so i can get. get more kids. you know? and just.it s a shame. it is a real shame. have we ever stopped to ask that boy that carries a knife what he wants to do when he s older? more workers will mean more protection for children. instead, he s more than likely to be riding with thugs. and they re the ones in the community prescribing the drugs and. these the latest recruits. the youngest kid to be found in school with a knife was six years old. a basic orientation into a parallel world. at the very bottom, you ve got the blades of grass, and that s the kids that are being exploited. a gang culture that they will need to understand. and it doesn t matter if one s killed or arrested or anything like that, because there s more blades of grass growing all the time.
the edge team are facing an ever growing workload. got a lot of meetings to attend there s a lot of strategy meetings, a lot of complex abuse meetings and core groups, so we could alljust support each other in a way. and behind every case, every call, there s a child at risk. the kids who are away- on a county line don t even know what a county line is. here, it s all about rescuing kids from the gangs driving across the country to pick them up from trap houses or police cells. four lads returned home, they re all home now. they ve all been seen by police and been released. they re back, which is great, but i think the hard work starts now. and more than that, it s about helping them break the links with the gangs, with the gang culture, and the criminal underworld. many of the children mixed up in gangs and county lines end up under arrest in police cells. it may sound odd, but for some
in after a while. i was so naive. ididn t. it was, yes, yes, yes, 0k. and if they told me, get on my knees, i was on my knees. and that was the situation i went with. seeing people get kettled, like, with boiling water. i ve seen people get stabbed because of the littlest disagreement over things like £20. £20, people are getting hurt for. that s all that s left, really, is the memory of them. county lines is just one element of gang culture, which can start with music, image, street swagger but can end in tragedy. one little wound to kill somebody. having to put a knife in your pocket because you re feeling scared, having a knife in your pocket to protect yourself, to protect others. it s no way to live. it leaves families dealing with the agony of overwhelming
it leaves families dealing with the agony of overwhelming loss, and communities in grief and shock. i feel absolutely gutted. ijust want more workers so i can get. get more kids. you know? and just.it s a shame. it is a real shame. have we ever stopped to ask that boy that carries a knife what he wants to do when he s older? more workers will mean more protection for children. instead, he s more than likely to be riding with thugs. and they re the ones in the community prescribing the drugs and. these the latest recruits. the youngest kid to be found in school with a knife with six years old. a basic orientation into a parallel world. at the very bottom, you ve got the blades of grass, and that s the kids that are being exploited. a gang culture that they will need to understand. and it doesn t matter