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All rights belong to their respective owners And as you can tell I'm here for teaching purposes learning purposes How bad's crime in the over there an intro for this Middlesbrough North East England We're in Middlesbrough the biggest town right in the heart of Cleveland and the UK's epicenter for criminal activity New statistics show the rate of recorded crime across Cleveland police stands at a hundred and forty one point seven per thousand people That means over 14 percent of those here were the victim of crime in the last year To put that into context That's nearly 40 percent higher than London's metropolitan police and over 50 percent above the rate for England and Wales And when you look closer, it's an even grimmer picture The area has the highest rate of sexual offenses in the country the second highest rates of knife crime and the fourth worst rate for drug offenses On the grounds here you get an immediate Cleveland Middlesbrough I ain't even gonna lie like when they first panned in it looked terrible They just look like somewhere in America something like an American Sense of the huge challenges facing Cleveland We were threatened by multiple people in broad daylight and on the Hemlington estate in Middlesbrough It didn't take long until crime came to us About one of these man look So you need to walk about it to keep yourself safe man So you've got constantly walking around with a knife constantly walking about with a knife made just to keep myself safe Because I could be walking down any alley So I'll come down and stab me do not mean do you have a good knife as well? Doesn't because he's with me do not mean no, no, I don't need knives I mean Do you ever have to use your knife plenty of times myth? I'm not proud of it like but plenty of times What like what situations have we had to use it? Well just where people think in the badder than me Do not mean trying to give me smoke and obviously I'm not just gonna sit there and let it happen I'm gonna retaliate you know what I mean so just the same if I see them I'm doing the same thing to them. Do you know what I mean? I stabbed about 20 people man Swear and so you still think that's all right to do well the pen just obviously I'm not just gonna go I'm doing it. We'll see how bad this video gets It might have to get edited, but I haven't seen that the net violates YouTube's Guidelines thus far anyone obviously if someone's gonna do it to me if I see them without them seeing me I'm sneaking up on them and doing them in straight away. Not a problem. So what you doing now just out chilling You know what I'm doing man What do you mean? Like do you deal or not? Yeah, the brazenness of this encounter came as a shock and once off-camera This man told us he doesn't sell the drugs himself, but has children running them for him This kind of operation is not unusual and now with technology It's easier than ever for criminals to target youngsters Crime isn't just limited to the streets anymore Increasingly it's online and within a few minutes I was able to find drug dealers based in Middlesbrough Advertising their products on popular social media sites. It's not just illicit drugs that they're selling They say that within the touch of a button anyone can buy guns knives, prescription medication, counterfeit money and cloned credit cards But some locals are fighting back Paul Harris and Davey Leppard have lived on Middlesbrough's Grove Hill estate their whole lives They were fed up with seeing kids sucked into a life of crime and set up the you can project to help keep children off the streets Most of our friends have gone to prison, they've died Paul Harris So sad It's just not the same as at USP down there, it's all changed And yeah, drugs has got a big part of it, but it's everywhere, isn't it? So for me, now, as all I think is give these kids a better chance Don't go down the path of crime Don't go down the path of crime Don't go down the path of crime Don't go down the path of crime So as all I think is give these kids a better chance Don't go down the path we've taught Go down this path and get yourself a trade of jobs, you know Have a better future, better plans Instead of ending up being drug dealers Man, there's 100% right, there's no future in drug dealing Let me tell you, you've got to be an amazing saving person And be way so under the radar for it to even like, you know what I'm saying? They'll just go get a job What's the youngest sort of drug? Save more money with a job Now, let me clear up, you'll save more money having a job Than you will trapping But you'll have more money on hand when you trap them But it's a little revolving door, it's gone There's no way you can save it Go on here and get you a nine to five What do you like that you've seen around this area? Without exaggerating I'd say I'd stick with a 12-year-old Dealing drugs Yeah, yeah, it's common that You're looking at me like it's a shock, it's common But why do you think all these stabbings not go on? It's all down to the drugs and money and reputation These days the kids, if he's in our state, we're going to do them This place now is, the kids just know to you Their work is certainly proving popular for those involved I absolutely love it There's stuff for all kids to do There's Fortnite and there's football at the back And there's pool tables And there's air hockies and there's football I think it's good for all kids to get them off the street Why is it so important for you? Because instead of playing out on the streets and stuff You get to play in a protected centre Do you want a hot dog? Alfie's mum Donna is one of the grateful parents Who volunteer here every week Running arts and crafts Cooking hot food and even manning the tuck shop Hot dogs and a sloker? But with the local council facing the threat of bankruptcy The centre's future hangs in the balance If they didn't have this What would happen? Where would there be? Donna Peacock What would there be up to? I can't speak for all of them But on the streets Yeah, little places like these like youth centres If you can get to the child early enough They make a difference You gotta say man, children are the future And if you stop it early enough They ain't gonna do it Probably tormenting neighbours Fighting on the streets They'll be playing out in the dark, in the cold Nothing for them to do really You know, as a parent myself I'll speak for myself Go on and go and play out if you want to go and play out But then we worry where our kids are to safe It's a sad reality That crime feels like a part of everyday life To some people here Just something they have to pull up with And accept That's how I felt when I was in Chicago I was so I was so tuned off the crime Like, okay Literally, like I would sit there on It's an app called What's it called? Citizens app I would sit on a citizens app For entertainment And just look at it like, ah dang They're getting busy Dang Like, citizens app in Florida Like they might as well not have this app Like don't men be happening out here I don't feel safe at all I wouldn't dream of going out after After dark Prostitutes, drug addicts The house is being broken into No police presence It's like horrifying, really It's horrible I call my partner Paul He's em-difficult I had some very dodgy experiences It's usually quite a lot of drugs And when drugs are about And they're not legalised, there's an awful lot of crime Absolutely shocking Like I lived on Cannon Park I lived in Calo Street In every place I've lived I've been burgled Come four o'clock soon as it starts getting dusk I'm back in the house Because I don't trust the town no more And stories like this are all too common Theft offences are- Terrible quality of life You've got to be in the house by 4pm And for the second biggest crime group in Cleveland While shoplifting Is worse here than anywhere else Shoplifting has increased Across England and Wales Over the last two years And the northeast is the worst affected area In the country with offences Up by a third Some retailers in Cleveland Have had to install panic alarms for staff And one shopkeeper in Middlesbrough Has gone even further I just take the phone away Every night because It will lease If anybody coming For burglary They know still in the phone Because phone is not displaced Parvez Actal runs a phone shop On the town's notorious parliament road But he's been targeted so heavily By thieves He's had to resort to extreme measures How many towns were you burgled? Burgles about I think about 9 times First 3 years 7 times What I do now I just Protect myself With a razor wire Razor wire here on the main entrance If anybody Hate to wear their Car or lorries I just cover myself to nobody coming in Then if anybody come through the roof Or anybody just Put my wall coming inside Or something like that I protect from every single corner Wow Because I can't take the risk Once what's happened The guy coming in take the phone from me Okay After 3 days later Same guy with other 3 friends Come to outside my shop They just call me come outside I don't want to talk to you I just go out My phone Sticker on They brazen So they robbed you for a phone Came back and tried to sell it back to you Surprise on With the sticker still on it Pinched from my shop 3 days before He want to sell me And they said to me I know you clever guy Don't hurt the place We know where you live I'm scared What's causing all of these burglaries Prestigutes Is making the problem Because they just Get the money for drugs And this area Is most of them Most of them drugies Prestigutes outside my house I said to them I don't mind you do whatever you want to do It's your business But don't do outside my house My kids Listening From the windows what they're talking about People ask them How much you charge for the below job My daughter 11 years old She ask me dad what is the mean below job What I give them an answer Just moments later We saw first hand What do you tell her Do you tell your kid the truth Hell no I'm lying I'm making something up 11 after all We meet the people behind the statistics We've spoken to three people Whose lives have been changed forever A victim A perpetrator And a bereaved mother When I got up blood Was just showing Everywhere I thought I'm dead and I just said I'm dying, I'm dying I thought that was it In Thornaby on T's we meet Gary Gill Two years ago on this very spot He was targeted by three men In a brutal attack Bang bang bang on the door For oh my god You can see they've all recognized Making it clear like this is what we came for I said put the weapons down And I'll fight yous I'll fight yous all you idiots And so they pretended to put the weapons You should have ran or something And they moved Around the back of me So one of them's come towards me And I thought great do my world So I punched him And his eyes have rolled And then And I went and like moved towards him again Then I felt stab stab from behind Yeah once you hit dude Let me tell you how I went They played it like alright man Maybe we can take him Once you hit that first one And his buddy seen his eyes roll Uh uh I'm not doing that That's really what And that's unfortunate But this is why You're trying to paint this picture for y'all In Chicago If somebody run up on you And they talking crazy to you And oh meet me here let's do the fist fight Let's do the fist it's cap Nobody's fist fighting don't do it Just either leave it alone Or just don't do it And I'm trying to Get myself out Get myself out Stab again I've been stabbing my leg and I've went like oh sh** And I've got Like ended up on the floor And I thought just cover yourself up Just cover yourself up And they were just building me And stamping on me and I got stabbed a couple more times And in those two years Since that happened do you think knife crime's getting Better in the 14 year old son's been arrested Recently carrying a knife Now I asked him why And he said dad well I've got problems And people are far Yeah nobody fights anymore It's over He's literally handing himself a knife It's a normality Because he knows that other people are going to be carrying him It seems knife crime follows Gary around That evening we speak To the brother of his partner Andrew spent 14 years behind bars For almost stabbing someone to death This is the brother of I went out on my own I used to carry a knife To protect myself Basically I've walked up and asked a man For a cigarette And he told me no So I asked him for all his money And he started fighting with me So Unfortunately He got stabbed up 11 times And obviously I ran away and I found out That he almost died How much do you regret your actions I 100% Regret my actions I wish it never happened However I feel that the sentence I got Was justified And it completely turned for my friends What's your advice To anybody thinking of picking up a knife Don't do it because you're f***ing stupid Sorry for the language You're absolutely stupid And it's a peer pressure At the end of the day there's a lot of kids who are walking about Who probably don't want to That's a fact too That's the same in Chicago There's a lot of people who are in Chicago Walking around with firearms That don't want to walk around with firearms But they have to Because of situations they've seen Heard or been in themselves That they never want to be in again It's 100% All the money Don't pick a knife up Don't be pressuring it While Andrew seems remorseful That the community should change his life for the better But not everyone is so lucky Enlisted is the free brand new Yeah his reasoning though Like He needed to go to jail No I don't wish jail on nobody But that's a crazy reasoning Yeah I asked for a cigarette He wouldn't give me one so I asked for all the money And then he started beating me up Which made sense And I just couldn't take it That's crazy Andrew seems remorseful He now has the opportunity to change his life For the better But not everyone is so lucky There's a cut through his windpipe And the blood was just coming out And there's an awful lot of blood there Yeah Barbara's son Robert was murdered Just meters from his home When he was stabbed in the back With an ornamental samurai sword in 2003 Her tireless campaigning Led to similar replica weapons being banned But over 20 years on The wounds of that day Have never fully healed The sword Went through his windpipe Went through the left chamber of his heart Cut through a vertebra in his back Then it went through the main aorta I see a tube come up to your heart Isn't this He bled Profusively in the street That would have just shown you was his blood Can you imagine how I felt Looking at that I got to the hospital I was hysterical Literally hysterical I ran up first because I got a phone call His partner had said He's gone So I said gone where Because I didn't know where it happened So I ran back I thought what's going on here I was told by receptionist That he had been discharging He was on his way home His partner to say he's gone So I rang my dad I was pasting I walked that floor in my house For years up and down Up and down With the agitation The horror of it I got to the hospital and I screamed right from the entrance This was the general I said to the receptionist You told me he was on his way home And he's laid on a slab out there dead People say You should have closure now What closure? What are the main closure? Because I don't know There is no closure It goes on and on and on That person was here that day Because his father spoke to him on the phone A couple of hours later he was dead You can't get closure over that It's human stories like Barbara's that lay bare The challenges weighing heavy on the local community But how do you bring about meaningful change? Whether it's violence Anti-social behaviour Theft or more Every person we spoke to Said it all links back to drugs How bad? Drugs in the area It could be called drugs It could be called drugs Crack city I know a lot of kids Who were 14, 15, 16 Who were smoking crack Smoking crack ok no 16 years old Absolutely That's insane People at my high school I was an athlete so I ain't part of taking nothing Years later I found out everybody at my high school I'm talking freshman year 8th grade sophomore day was all Doing boogersugar I can't believe it We was children Y'all ain't had nothing better to do That's how bad it's getting at the moment That crack has it's took over It's a pandemic with crack Who's doing the robbing? Just drugies So it's all drugs? It's every state argument I can guarantee I'd spot a drug dealer Even a working class They all do it It's not just law class people It's everywhere References to drugs are everywhere here With rows and rows We've boarded up buildings raided by police And the names of anyone who's snitched Blasted on walls for all to see Cleveland police are trying to crack down on drugs In a series of specialist operations To root out gangs But the sheer scale of the problem here Is shocking Just days before we arrived A huge cannabis grog was raided At this former middle's rep hub And while we were out filming We heard of an even bigger discovery The police face an ongoing battle With trying to control drugs In this area As soon as they arrest somebody For growing drugs Another place will pop up to replace it We've heard that Cleveland police Has raided a property in Hartlepool This morning and found 200,000 Pounds worth of cannabis plants We're going down there to take a look I don't think class B's Have to be Ended it out but Because you can smell it coming from the door But you can't Like now the door's open But if that's walked and passed it Would that necessarily know? One of the main things is how dangerous it is to Look at all these farms off Because they bypass the meter So it's directly into the mains And it's a major fire as in If you live next door You're at risk of your house going up People don't realise that The police here face huge obstacles 15% fewer officers since 2010 In 2019 the force was put into Special measures The first ever to be raided inadequate Across all areas And despite these measures being lifted last year People here Still have concerns Do you feel safe now in Cleveland? Not really, no No And the police are corrupt piece of s*** Why do you think the fact I bring the matrix up The matrix is about to come up here Because Cleveland police aren't doing the job man This kid is almost 10 years old Just doing a little drop off to people It happens, there's nothing you can do about it Because you're not going to catch him And there's not much help from your local services So the police aren't really interested Social services aren't really interested It's for the local community We've all stepped together to do things about it Police don't do anything That's why I've been burglar seven times One of the most important Journalism is to hold power to account Especially when it comes to public safety Over the past three months We made repeated requests To speak to Cleveland police But the force said It was too busy Despite having spoken to several media outlets Just days before we arrived The area's police and crime commissioner Did agree to an interview Steve Turner was chosen by voters in 2021 Representing the conservative party He's facing another election this year And was keen to say what he's done To improve things What I promise people is They deserve an efficient and effective police force And that's what we're building here So we look at the crime data By percentage of population But when you look at the arrest data By percentage of population With the second best force in the country For arrest data We've got some of the best figures By burglary on knife crime Because there's a lot of it going on there We've got to look at it as well It's not just about reported incidents We can talk about knife crime going on Fake news He's saying what's making them look good But reported incidents of knife crime Go up when we increase our stop and search And we've increased stop and search By about 40% here in Cleveland To start to bring those figures down You've been in power for three years Why hasn't this happened sooner? The first force was when we took We were in a position where we were only Just managing to respond to crime We had no strategy We had no clear direction We were a force that wasn't recording crime And didn't understand our demand And we understand that now If you legalized that class B drug Crime would definitely go down Because it being illegal makes it It makes it sought after Makes territories fight over it Makes people fight over corners Locations And let them say The wheels back on to this We built some really solid foundations And we're now starting to read the benefit of that What the public of Cleveland needs to understand is We are not the violent place That's perpetrated In some of what you see in the press Yes, the statistics are high We are a tough place to live and work We're a tough place to police And we're not getting away from that And there's a lot of work still to be done For the vast majority of people They don't see crime A lot of the crime that's reported Affects a very small amount of people So it's not always about the crime you see It's about what the police force are doing To keep us safe in other avenues as well Steve's naturally keen To defend his records and his hometown But his words don't echo What we saw and heard from the local community Yes, it's not everywhere And it's worse in some places Rather than others Criminality is visible here Residents talk about it In a matter of fact way And the scars it leaves behind Are even on public display Though it's true crime is on the way down Both locally and across the country Levels in Cleveland are proving Stubborn I feel like Why is this name Cleveland I wanted to say this at the beginning But I had to wait And let it play out Any neighborhood named After an American state That has that city inside of it Cleveland, Ohio Is a dump as well No offence to anybody In Cleveland, Ohio In America I knew that this had no hope And they tell you Cleveland I knew it was going to be trash Those that live here No offence How do you fix this I don't know No answer Because you tell me What I do more than this Only one thing left I do bunker Like a bumper roof, nobody coming in I've lived here all my life I've seen it, I was brought up in it I understand better than anybody The struggles people face here in Cleveland I'm passionate about doing something about it The benefit streets is just a case Shut the money out of them That's not the case, it's not about the money They've got to put proper help in there They've got to give proper support Those who want to carry a knife, you can't stop them They're going to carry a knife The only way I think that anything can be done Is to actually jail them They're not getting jail time I didn't even mute it, why is it muted I said that's also true What the lady was saying You need to jail them Getting caught with a knife, I was like that's true Because like The punishment for getting caught with a knife By police Is less than Getting caught without a knife By ops You know what I'm saying, I'm getting a slap on the wrist For holding this knife I'm being what, four years Get out in two Even less if it's my first time Like Criminals And people trying to protect themselves Are willing to live with those odds You know what I'm saying But anyway man, see you later Leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bell Sorry for all the unnecessary Accidental mutes I don't know what I was doing But yeah, I'm gone