My son who's only just 14 was playing in the local park on Weds eve and 3 older youths came up, grabbed his and his friend's basket ball, demanded to know 'which school'. Basically, onto a loser whatever the answer! Punched him in the nose (broke his nose) to the ground, the other one who was busy puching up the other kid, then came over, kicked him in the head, in the face, (blacked his eye), split his lip badly...... and the Police don't have the resources to do much..

Then telling a friend, her 14 year old son the previous week had been set upon by a gang of 8 similar aged boys (different school) who'd mugged him in broad daylight for his skateboard, and then had strangled him to the point of asphyxication by one and kicked in the stomach, head, etc by the others.... and the Police don't have the resources to do much....