"The Republicans and Democrats are acting like two different gangs, " she says.

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Mr Mankell is obsessed by the way that the smug Swedes respond to disruptive forces like immigration and criminal gangs.

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Southwark Council's gang intervention team relocated him away from south London and commissioned him to write a report on the reasons young people like him get involved with gangs.

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That is why I will be discussing how we can go further in getting to grips with gangs with people like Bill Bratton, former Commissioner of Police in New York and Los Angeles.

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It is nothing like America's, where gangs are far more organised and where guns are easily available.

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