English cities adopt US-style crime crackdown

Five English cities have been chosen to adopt a US-inspired programme designed to tackle violent youth crime. Coventry, Nottingham, Leicester, Manchester and Wolverhampton are to use ‘focused deterrence’, pioneered Boston in the mid-1990s to address the escalation in gun-related murders. In 2008, Glasgow tackled gang warfare and gang violence with the same approach. Nottingham has […]