I blame the parents as well for some of this crime.
It's all well and good them coming out doing appeals when their kid gets murdered and saying he was an angel and all that but overlooking the last few years he has been out with weapons and involved in drugs themselves.
They need to start looking closer to home. Yes it's a bad thing people die, but if you are allowing your own kid to go out in a gang then what do you expect is going to happen? I be the majority of them are the types that abuse police for arresting their "baby" or playing the race card when they carry out crimes.
Saw a documentary the other day where the kid was mixed up in gangs, drugs etc and the mum was fully aware of it then he got killed.
If I knew my child was at risk like that I wouldn't stop until I knew they were safe. If that involved moving away then so be it.
Of course innocent people get caught up in it, them and their families are the ones I feel sorry for.