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The Riots

I agree. Both are issues, but we should start with the individual responsibility of those involved. I will come on to develop both of those points during my speech. The first lesson is the importance of tackling gang culture. My starting point on the issue is that this is not just a matter for the police. We cannot simply enforce the problem away. We also need to offer a way out of gangs to young people, many of whom may have felt pressured, in terms of their own safety, to get involved. We need to work with the local communities that are suffering from this problem to ensure that they are involved in bringing peer pressure to bear on those who are involved. There is a lot in the Centre for Social Justice report, ““Dying to belong””, which was published in February 2009.