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Ex-gangster’s help may not be enough for our kids
• I READ the article concerning Nakuja Guyan on helping our youth on the streets (Ex-gangster hired in bid to help kids, August 7).
In theory this really does seem a good idea... I would like to know how one person can do this for a whole borough of young people, and what happens when he clocks off ?
I have found personally that anyone working in the field of looking after vulnerable children/young people only care when they are being paid and on duty. Outside this they really just don’t want to know, like the rest of society.
This is hard for the parents and extended family as they don’t have anyone to turn to.
name and address supplied, WC1
Los Angeles gangs declared their truce for a reason
• YOUR article (Ex-gangster hired in bid to help kids, August 7) concerning Nakuja Guyan working with Camden police to deter young people from crime and violence, refers to there being a terrible level of killings in California “before the truce in 1992” but doesn’t explain what this truce was.
That year four white police officers were acquitted of beating a black man, Rodney King, despite graphic video evidence of them carrying out the unprovoked attack. Massive protests and rioting ensued in response and LA gangs the Bloods and the Crips declared a truce, having realised that their enemy was not one another but the armed and unaccountable representatives of “law and order”. Readers can draw whatever parallels they choose.
NICKI JAMESON
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