Victoria Police, African leaders talk gang crime

Victoria's African community and police have pushed ahead with a task force to solve youth crime, capping off two weeks of political warring over the issue

'Civil libertarian' judges are to blame for Victoria's youth violence, Peter Dutton says. (AAP) Source: AAP

Deputy Police Commissioner Andrew Crisp emerged from the meeting with new strategies to combat crime in Melbourne.

"Some of these young people are behaving like street gangs. However it's about what we're doing about the behaviour. How do we stop these kids from offending in the first place," Mr Crisp said.

Cameroonian community member, Sherry-Rose Watts, who was at the meeting, admitted there have been problems amongst youth in her community

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