| Comment | They died out at the start of the last decade really. I feel recently some people are trying to bring it back, but it's rare you see people walking about in a trackie trying to fight people these days.
No one has mention this yet, but in 2005 the police set up a 'Violence Reduction Unit' as part of a national scheme aimed at curbing knife crime. They decided to stop treating it as a criminal problem and instead took a public health approach. There's quite a few articles that cover this and I think even some documentaries, but we went from "Murder capital of Europe", to a pretty safe environment. I'd say the police and social workers are largely responsible for the shift in ned culture. |
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