Do we really need truncheons and pepper spray to fight off London’s ‘feral’ teenage shoplifters? | Zoe Williams
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<p>I don’t want to minimise the scenes in Clapham High Street. But how about dialling things down a notch?</p><p>Last week, some teenagers in the Clapham area of south-west London started running up and down the high street. The terms used to describe them ranged from “feral gang” to “chaotic swarm”; evidently, it is in the eye of the beholder as to whether they were closer to animals or insects. Definitely, positively, some of them shoplifted.</p><p>Fireworks were
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<p>I don’t want to minimise the scenes in Clapham High Street. But how about dialling things down a notch?</p><p>Last week, some teenagers in the Clapham area of south-west London started running up and down the high street. The terms used to describe them ranged from “feral gang” to “chaotic swarm”; evidently, it is in the eye of the beholder as to whether they were closer to animals or insects. Definitely, positively, some of them shoplifted.</p><p>Fireworks were
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