Summary
It's 'ard to get a job," says [Jamal], "but still you got to make money. If there's just one person who's drug dealing, kids see the cash and go: 'Look how much cash he's makin' and you're makin' this much working your arse off.' And they go: 'Yeah, that's the easy way of makin' money. I might as well do that.' And you don't have to do nothing. All yah do is chillin'.
See the full content of this document
Extract
In Area 429, the Drugs Trade Thrives
I am in Harehills, just down the road from the shiny, bright prosperity of Leeds city centre and a five-minute drive from Harvey Nichols. It is one of Europe's most multicultural areas. The small Brazilian clothes shop, the Irish centre and Milan Road, with its Malaysian immigrants, are the signposts that make it easy to see why. It is also one of the most deprived areas in England. Nat West, the last bank on Harehills high street, closed four years ago, just after Boots. Shops lie derelict and burnt out.
I keep catching glimpses of solitary children sitting in t...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
