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Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples says gangs are becoming part of the
solution to youth violence, rather than always being the problem.
"They used to drive by each other's pads and shoot like they did in
Wanganui. Now they meet on marae and discuss problems and their
differences and what they can do to defuse this new phenomenon of ad
hoc street gangs based on the United States calling themselves Bloods
and Crips and similar names," says Sharples.
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