This interactive map exposes the terrifying extent of the activity of gangs through London After a policeman ended up with a bonus of £ 10,000 on his head for shooting the known gang member Chris Kaba.
Hundreds of knife gangs and firearms control the “territory” throughout the capital, including in neighborhoods where houses are worth more than 1 million pounds sterling.
The gangs, which often perform large drug operations, sometimes assure children to school to join their lives crimeWith promises of fast cars, fashionable clothing and “respect”.
It then happens that London fights an epidemic of knife crime. Last year, 14,500 knife crimes were recorded in London – nearly 40 per day – against almost 11,500 the previous year.
The Center for Social Justice believes that the gangs are responsible for almost half of all the crimes with a knife.
Kaba was revealed to be a “basic member” of 67, one of the most feared criminal collectives in southern London who have terrified Brixton For years because of a bloody grass war.
Kaba was shot down by the sergeant Martyn Blake In September 2022 after a dramatic police pursuit which saw him use his Audi Q8 as a “ram” to try to escape a roadblock.
Mr. Blake, who was rid of the murder, must live in a hiding place, fearing for his life and family after a reward of £ 10,000 was offered to anyone who has prepared to offer information on his fate in order to kill him in revenge.
The famous clan 67 based in Brixton Hill of Kaba, pronounced six-seven, was described by Mr. Blake’s lawyer as the “most dangerous gang in southern London”.
A police report put in 2023 revealed that the 67 turf war had “encompassed numerous rejections of firearms, stabs and murders”.
67 fought wars with rivals from domains located outside streets, including “17” in Wandsworth and Claptown Gang, known as CT, based in Clapham.
The members of 67 are considered to be “sponsors” of the London drilling rap scene, notorious in its links with violence, in particular knife crime.
The gang received the prize for the best newcomer to Mobos in 2016 after recovering millions of views on YouTube. Kaba struck under the alias Madix, Itch and Mad Itch.
Chris Kaba in a drilling rap video where he seems to pretend to shoot a firearm
The name of Rap of Chris Kaba was “Mad Itch” or “Itch” and he published borehole songs boasting of making his competitors and selling drugs. A calm of one of his videos is represented above, for the song several times, where he boasted of stabbing a rival
His criminal past was only revealed after an old Judge of Bailey rejected a plea for his family to keep him secret following the acquittal of the police elite puts Martyn Blake, who was unchecked from his murder last week.
Only six days before Kaba’s death, he had shot a member of a rival gang in a nightclub filled with 1,500 revelers.
The video surveillance caught the moment when a Kaba, dressed in Blaclava, spotted Brandon Malatshi, who was associated with “ 17 ”, through a crowded dancefloor before looking for a pistol that had been introduced as a smuggling inside.
A few seconds later, there were cries and pandemonium while Kaba opened fire.
As the clubbers rushed to shake, Kaba hunted his target in the street, pulling three other bullets and hitting the victim in the leg by a car.
He then jumped into a Range Rover and his accomplices fled in the Audi Q8 that Kaba would use a few days later.
Many London gangs take their names from their local postal codes, or, in the case of block 124 in Lewisham, the local bus which serves Catford and Eltham.
The proximity of the gangs with each other often leads to violence, with innocent passers -by taken sporadically in chaos.
In May 2017, Mohanna Abdhou20 years old, stood with friends next to a playground in the South Kilburn field in northwestern London when two men went by bike.
Mohanna Abdhou, 20, illustrated, was the innocent victim of a Gangland murderer botched in May 2017
The field houses the gang sk which was involved in a violent campaign of tit-for-tat with the Harrow Boys of the Mozart Domaine nearby.
Two members of the Harrow Boys opened fire on their rivals of Sk Gang.
A tour turned to a wall and hit Ms. Abdhou. She died within 30 minutes.
Many territories through London have been mapped by a Dring Rap fan, known on Reddit Like Ukdrillplugmusic.
He tries to reconstruct the vast network of gangs in the capital.
Some enthusiasts, however, dispute some of the limits and claim that it does not show the right game in 2024.
A senior member of the Beckton Boys gang, Isaac DonkohKnown by its street name “Young Dizz” was one of the criminals released earlier this week despite its imprisonment in 2019 for 12 years Snapchat.
Isaac Donkoh (photo in one of his clips) is a member of a gang and drilling music artist from Newham, East London. He was released early prison this week after serving 40% of a 12 and a half year old sentence for kidnapping
THE Metropolitan policeWho recognizes that there are 432 “active organized crimes groups” in London, does not publish its own territory map.
At the end of 2023, the MET had listed 496 people on its extremely controversial gang violence matrix.
The GVM gathered Intel on members of alleged gangs and classified them according to risk on a scale of red, amber or green.
Scotland Yard was forced to suppress her GVM following charges she was unjustly targeting young black men.
The statistics published by Scotland Yard show that, out of the 496 people listed on the last GVM, 364 (73.4%) were black.
