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Stabbings in Sheffield and Postcode Gangs

In which areas are these crimes occuring, has it for instance spread to the Broomhill/ Hunters Bar area?

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They only do that in London, I thought?
Reply 2
yeah never heard of this happening anywhere in sheffield... there are the odd somali gang around but they stick to themselves as far as i know. I've definitely never heard of any postcode gangs anywhere outside of london.

27pence - where did you hear that from?
Reply 3
27pence
In which areas are these crimes occuring, has it for instance spread to the Broomhill/ Hunters Bar area?


no those were over by Wincobank/Burngreave area and stabbing/shooting crimes in sheffield are pretty much few and far between.

It'll never spread over to Broomhill/Hunters Bar i assure you, in fact broomhill has like zero crime rate its one of the most affluent areas in the country outside of London.

the only postcode gangs exist in the big 3, London Birmingham and Manchester
Reply 4
I don't even know what a postcode gang is O.o
brak3n
I don't even know what a postcode gang is O.o


It's a group of people from a specific postcode who tend to show animosity to gangs from other postcodes.
Classic.

The Times

Chaiboub, known as GT for Global Threat, was a gifted, popular and generous teenager with an easy way of making friends among a group whose style of rap music translated their common experience into a poetic but incessant street patois. He was shot on the street pitch where he is also said to have dealt crack cocaine...Chaiboub always knew the risks of setting himself up as a “true Sheff soljah”. He went as far as predicting his own death in one of his raps, singing: “If you don't watch out the last thing you'll hear is click, click, pow.”


:rofl:

(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4346399.ece)
I can't really imagine many gangs in Sheffield to be honest.
I come from East London and people get stabbed/shot in my area but Sheffield has always seemed pretty calm in comparison.
All cities have a few bouts of crime now and then, but I've always heard that Sheffield is one of Englands safest cities.
Reply 8
jaydoh
It's a group of people from a specific postcode who tend to show animosity to gangs from other postcodes.

is there any other gangs? geographic location is number one priority when i join a gang.(it happens more than you might think....not)
Reply 9
NW10 all day everyday!

Lol do these things really happen in Sheffield? Kinda sad tbh
It is a traditionally Northern, predominantly working-class industrial city just like Manchester or Leeds so there's going to be a high proportion of immigration which in turn breeds a high proportion of drugs and gun-crime therefore equalling the deaths of people caught up in gang violence. Tell me if my logic is flawed?
Reply 11
I live in Birmingham and I must admit that I"ve never heard of any postcode violence. Most ( if not all ) of the stabbings/ shootings happen in Newtown or Lozells district.
Reply 12
Safest large city in the UK. In 3 years there I never saw any evidence of gangs at all in any of the main city area or student quater.
It's not unheard of here.
Reply 14
oh right because on the news an 18 year old was murdered last night in the Parson cross area, they then did a five minute report on the various stabbings in sheffield and then about a lad who was having his hair cut and got shot in the head in july, and another about a boy who got stabbed to death and was fround in a park, and then there was a stabbing in a night club (BBC news)
Reply 15
27pence
In which areas are these crimes occuring, has it for instance spread to the Broomhill/ Hunters Bar area?


Manor probably. You gotta be mental to walk around that area. Its way across the other area of town.

Violent crime is very rare in Sheffield, especially for a city of its size.
Reply 16
jaydoh
It is a traditionally Northern, predominantly working-class industrial city just like Manchester or Leeds so there's going to be a high proportion of immigration which in turn breeds a high proportion of drugs and gun-crime therefore equalling the deaths of people caught up in gang violence. Tell me if my logic is flawed?


You missed the little Brazilian kid taking photographs but other than that, yeah...
Reply 18
you're doing your PhD you're old enough to know how the media will add meat to a story, last winter someone was shot on the other side of sheffield and they were like Gun Crime is rising in Sheffield on a major scale and it was literally like 1 person was shot the year before and the next year 2 were shot major increase lol.

Sheff is crazy safe and ultra safe in Broomhill/Hunters bar.
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