Theresa May says most rioters were not in gangs

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Source: BBC News

Home Secretary Theresa May has told MPs that the "majority of people involved" in the riots were not in gangs - according to the latest figures.

She told MPs that as arrests had continued, the percentage involved in gangs had dropped.

But there was "some evidence" gangs were involved in inciting rioting on social media, she said.

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Gangs got much of the blame for the spread of disorder - Prime Minister David Cameron promised a "concerted, all out war on gangs and gang culture", a gangs taskforce has been set up and former police chief of Los Angeles and New York Bill Bratton is advising the government on how to crack down on gangs.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14834827

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