AFTER reading a review by the EastEnders star Ross Kemp, who conducted a survey on the feral gangs that roam the streets of Britain today, he is concerned at what is the cause, or how we can rectify this situation we find Britain in today.
Many of the young who are in these gangs have opted out of today's society as they see no future for themselves.
They realise the idols they chose to model their humdrum lives on are beyond their reach in status and wealth.
Turning to crime lur
ed them to the streets and the gangs, giving them a false degree of what they sought to achieve in their living standards, emulating their idols by taking to felony, mayhem, and murder.
In their education they are bored. Consequently tutors lost interest in their progression in the classroom so they took to the streets where drug dealers and other facets of crime lured them to easy money, whereby they had to protect their territory against intruders on their patch.
This required weapons so knives and guns were introduced and so the murder and turf wars began.
Another serious fact came out of Ross Kemp's write-up - the remarks that came from these gangs.
As they stated, if you think we are bad, wait till you see the ones that are coming up.
What is the hope for the future of society by that remark? Children as young as ten form the nuclei of these gangs, coming from broken homes, single parent families, lack of authority and education.
They are forsaken and left to their own devices, and eventually find what they lack in the company of others in the same billet as themselves, and a gang is formed to the loss of a stable society.
By idolising stars of the fashion world, football and the television programmes that promote fame, glamour, wealth and a living beyond their capabilities, these wannabe drop-outs become Frisbees, plastic rejects of their unaccomplished ambitions in society and crime welcomes them into a life more attainable with the prospects of ill-gotten gains.
Is there a solution to bring about their rehabilitation into a moral and law-abiding society for these feral children?
I wish I had the answer to their wasted lives.
I suspect, like the conflicts that are ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan today, the problems facing these feral children unfortunately may never be resolved.
Perhaps a waste of many good lives?
Fred Gibbon,
Masefield Road,
Hartlepool.
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