What caused the Hackney riots? Local residents speak out
“These teenagers have got nothing better to do… they think that they’re well hard”
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UK riots: don’t shut these kids out now
Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience
Boris Johnson says London riots “are not a simple issue.”
London’s Tory Mayor has said that the riots’ “background field of causation” is “very, very, various.”
Hackney riots: why here? why now?
What were the reasons for this week’s violent disturbances in the borough?
The militarisation of policing the riots would be a deadly mistake
Yes, we must regain control of the streets, but loose talk about rubber bullets and water cannon will achieve nothing
Hackney riots: taking stock
Local residents and businesses pick up the pieces and hope the next few days will be calmer
London riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
Sam Hallam murder conviction to go to Court of Appeal
A 24 year-old Hoxton man who was convicted of murder six years ago is to have his case reviewed
Twenty arrested in Dalston immigration and drugs swoop
A joint operation by Hackney Police, Hackney Council and the UK Border Agency cracks down on Class A drug dealing and immigration offences in Ridley Road and at Dalston Junction
Send a birthday card to Sam Hallam, the Hoxton One
With a decision expected on whether his case go back to the Court of Appeal, campaigners hope this will be the last birthday Hallam spends in prison
Young Londoners still don’t feel police are on their side
Boris Johnson has given youth violence a high profile, but needs to ask whether stop-and-search does more harm than good
Contract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work
Turkish crime gangs in north London thought to be linked to spate of killings
Britain’s youngest ‘hitman’ convicted of woman’s murder
Teenage gang member known as Riot was 15 when he killed Gulistan Subasi outside her Hackney home last year
Hackney teenager caught with loaded gun and clown mask on train
Mitchell Woods of Haggerston is jailed for three years after being found in possession of a semi-automatic weapon and ammunition
Gang members jailed for life over teenage girl’s murder
Two men found guilty of killing innocent schoolgirl in pizza shop revenge attack that went wrong
London 2012 Olympics: Crackdown on brothels ‘puts sex workers at risk’
Police clean-up of London’s Olympic boroughs is pushing vice crime and human trafficking underground, say critics