Nick Wallis joins the West Midlands Police Gang Task Force in Birmingham as they battle both the causes and effects of the city’s violent gang culture. The episode explores the devastating effect gang crime can have on communities, hearing first hand from the gangs themselves and from the families of past victims.
The programme examines how Birmingham’s gangs have developed over the past twenty years and explores some of the worst moments in the city’s gang crime history. This includes the 2003 NewYear shooting which left two innocent teenage girls dead after they were caught up in a deadly turf war.
The programme will also take a look at how the West Midlands police have started to turn the tide against the menace on the city’s streets by working to stop young people joining gangs.
