"When people get caught up in gang murders people say they are not part of the gang. But in school you hear that they've done stuff. I move away from anyone who pressures me, but it can be scary. Adults should make more stuff for young people to do and make sentencing harder"
- Ronnie Youpa, 17, Hackney
"It's a real issue - the media only reports it if someone dies. I'm lucky as I'm quite academic but I had some family problems once and the boys on the estate became more like family to me. There are also older people behind it, who get the young people running drugs and so on"
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