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Can anyone substantiate the "dozens of shooting fatalities" claim? Andy Mabbett 07:39, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Neo Lewis 14:59 28/12/2006 I have been searching the internet today while at work and I am completely disgusted in the amount of insults the area recieves from people who have possibly never even been there. All you ever hear about Handsworth is "gang wars" and "shooting" I was raised in Handsworth for the first 16 years of my life and I enjoyed every moment of it.
Yeah i agree it isnt exactly a decent place to visit but the majority of people who live there love the area and will always represent it. I live 100s of miles away from Handsworth but i still say with pride that I was born and raised on the streets of Handsworth. Neo Lewis 14:59 28/12/2006
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The opening paragraph needs to be modified - I was active in Handsworth throughout the period and the riots mentioned did not have this component of local jealousy - community relations amongst African Caribbean and Asian communities was actually very good and a sense of solidarity amongst them was prevalent in Handsworth - I would like to know what these other sources are.
They should be referenced properly if they are given such high prominence.
The source of much of the discontent was provoked by the policing including the overuse of stop and search in these communities during the Seventies and Eighties.
All ages of the community felt a genuine sense of injustice, rather than being just a question of young people formenting violence.
In 1981 in which I was a direct witness - the police were almost exclusively the target and avarice a late comer to the game
The presence of the police aggravated the situation rather than bringing calm to the streets, they were seen as an enemy rather than a friend to the community at that time.
It is only after this that Police attitudes and application changed for the better
80.249.57.49 ( talk) 08:45, 9 August 2011 (UTC)Philip Evans
This is a very poor article about three very important topics. It contradicts itself openly (were there two or three riots?), it seems to believe that all three can be explained with a single blanket explanation of their causes, and it tops it all by assuming that they all fall comfortably under the description "race riots", which is far from NPOV. For such controversial topics there is a woeful lack of references.
I'm going to split this into an article for each set of riots, and try to add a bit more sourced information.
JimmyGuano ( talk) 19:41, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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Can anyone substantiate the "dozens of shooting fatalities" claim? Andy Mabbett 07:39, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Neo Lewis 14:59 28/12/2006 I have been searching the internet today while at work and I am completely disgusted in the amount of insults the area recieves from people who have possibly never even been there. All you ever hear about Handsworth is "gang wars" and "shooting" I was raised in Handsworth for the first 16 years of my life and I enjoyed every moment of it.
Yeah i agree it isnt exactly a decent place to visit but the majority of people who live there love the area and will always represent it. I live 100s of miles away from Handsworth but i still say with pride that I was born and raised on the streets of Handsworth. Neo Lewis 14:59 28/12/2006
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The opening paragraph needs to be modified - I was active in Handsworth throughout the period and the riots mentioned did not have this component of local jealousy - community relations amongst African Caribbean and Asian communities was actually very good and a sense of solidarity amongst them was prevalent in Handsworth - I would like to know what these other sources are.
They should be referenced properly if they are given such high prominence.
The source of much of the discontent was provoked by the policing including the overuse of stop and search in these communities during the Seventies and Eighties.
All ages of the community felt a genuine sense of injustice, rather than being just a question of young people formenting violence.
In 1981 in which I was a direct witness - the police were almost exclusively the target and avarice a late comer to the game
The presence of the police aggravated the situation rather than bringing calm to the streets, they were seen as an enemy rather than a friend to the community at that time.
It is only after this that Police attitudes and application changed for the better
80.249.57.49 ( talk) 08:45, 9 August 2011 (UTC)Philip Evans
This is a very poor article about three very important topics. It contradicts itself openly (were there two or three riots?), it seems to believe that all three can be explained with a single blanket explanation of their causes, and it tops it all by assuming that they all fall comfortably under the description "race riots", which is far from NPOV. For such controversial topics there is a woeful lack of references.
I'm going to split this into an article for each set of riots, and try to add a bit more sourced information.
JimmyGuano ( talk) 19:41, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
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