The change of direction came after leaving journalism, where his roles had included being deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph. Gearing realised that the perception of young people in the media had changed.
"Local papers no longer had the resources to dig out the stories that they used to and it was easier to go to the police station and look in the police book to find six negative stories about young people than get out on patch and find one positive story," he says. "As a result there's been a creeping negativity to the point where you get absurd anti-hoodie stories."
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