STUPID KIDS WHO THINK THEY ARE GANGSTERS IN LIVERPOOL PART 3

TODAY in the Liverpool ECHO we read the feeble attempt by Councillor Warren Bradley, at tackling the the huge issue of Yob Culture and Anti-Social Behaviour.

I think the title should have read
WHY DID BRADLEY BOTHER????

The stupid kids who think they are gangsters are really shaking in their bovver boots!!

GET A GRIP BRADLEY!!!

Why do we bother?

Nov 2 2006

By Nick Coligan Political Reporter, Liverpool Echo

'Reclaim Our Neighbourhoods'

YOBS are repeatedly wrecking leisure facilities being built for some of Liverpool's most deprived communities.

Three centres have suffered damage running into thousands of pounds damage in a series of attacks by vandals.

Council leader Warren Bradley today pleaded with vandals targeting Norris Green, Dingle and Walton: "We're building these for YOU - just stop destroying them."

Recent attacks have seen:

* Windows shot out with BB guns and air rifles

* Fireworks thrown inside the buildings

* Timber panels torn down and set alight.

A new leisure centre next to Alsop high school in Walton, pitches at Norris Green's Scargreen recreation ground, and the Starr Fields sports complex in Dingle have been repeatedly hit.

Cllr Bradley today said parents had to keep a closer eye on their children.

"These three sites are suffering terribly and I do not want these thugs to win.

"We are trying to invest in community sports facilities so young people have something to do.

"Then we find out that some yobs have shot through the windows at the Alsop building with a ball-bearing gun.

"Scargreen has 24-hour security, but kids have still got in and wrecked the building materials being used.

"We need these communities to keep a close eye on what is happening. If parents know what their children are doing - or if they don't - they need to starttaking some responsibility."

At the new £6m sports hall, gym and pool at Alsop high, which will open in 2007, vandals fired air guns at windows, sprayed graffiti and hurled bricks, ignoring security guards.

Scargreen's £1m sports ground, which will have new grass and synthetic pitches when it opens in the spring, is being attacked by youths who daily throw bricks and fireworks, damaging machinery and the new playing surfaces.

At Starr Fields, a £750,000 scheme by Shorefields school to turn the old Dingle Vale recreation ground into a floodlit pitch and tennis courts, yobs ripped down timber hoardings and burned them.

Chief Supt Andy Ward, area commander for Liverpool north, backed Cllr Bradley, adding: "While the police are ableto take action against offenders, it would be better if parents could nip this in the budby educating their children about acceptable behaviour.

City Labour leader Joe Anderson said: "The yobs will laugh at being told to stop it - we have to force them to stop it."




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