Tears as police probing Manchester grooming gang arrest seven men in dawn raids. The M.E.N. joined GMP during raids over crimes said to have been committed 20 years ago, with the men arrested on suspicion of sex crimes against a girl under 16
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tears-police-probing-manchester-grooming-29994678
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>It identified up to 97 suspected offenders and at least 57 potential victims. But a review commissioned by Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, in 2017 discovered it was discontinued in July 2005 due to resources.
I don’t think people understand the scale of what’s actually happening in basically every major UK city. It’s frequently ignored because it either poses inconvenient questions or simply because police don’t have the resources to deal with it. But it is rampant. It’s on your doorstep. Our children aren’t safe.
If it was explained that people in jail for minor crimes were finishing their sentence on licence to make room for gangs like this, and the one a few weeks ago maybe people would be more receptive to it. Of course if we’d given thought to prison capacities anytime in the last decade it wouldn’t be an issue.