It is not only failed drugs policy but youth unemployment that has brought us to this shocking place. The unemployment rate among 16-17 year old boys is 31% and among 18 to 24 year old men it is 15% (compared with the agerage of 5.7%). Fertile ground for gang recruitment. I have analysed these and other telling figues at: http://www.thinkhard.org/2007/08/gunned-down.html