Teenage girls with no fear of police torment shopkeepers on Shirley High Street

The young sense of invincibility is clear. “The police will never help you,” he says, “You can get everything you want to film.”

He refuses to leave a shop captured at the center of a long -term campaign of antisocial behaviors – the windows were torn apart, the stolen goods, the fires began, the staff threatened and was attacked.

Muhammad Usman, the owner of the mobile phone store in Shirley, near Southampton, pulls him on his own phone – and the kid Bravado is fully streaming. “Touch me and I will do you to attack,” he warns.

“Every day is getting worse, Muhammad said, Muhammad said to us later. His voice is clearly worn by abuse that lasted for months – including the threat of a young man to kill him. “I have never had such an experience in my life before. We feel very helpless.”

What Muhammad and other tradesmen have experienced in recent months captures the challenge of antisocial behaviors against the police, councils and communities at a time when the government says that the struggle is a key priority.

Three doors down and Nnenna Okonkwo on the same street is also under siege. “It’s ridiculous that it’s just a few young people who caused this turmoil,” he says with his tears.

But they don’t seem like gangsters with hooded with guns.

When I finally meet the gang, I meet a 14 -year -old girl in pink leggings and crocodiles.

Orum I don’t claim to be innocent because I’m not, or he says. “I threatened people and hit people, I will accept it.”

The mouth is bubble and abusive blue. “The second you have a problem with the police, you fall deeply and you can’t go out,” he adds.

He said that a injury forced him to give up on sports and that his bad behavior offers an alternative energy version. “I saw the same adrenaline increased with the police and I saw that I took the loss and loss of something.”

But there is little regret. “I regret what I’ve done, but I’m sorry,” he says, cheering from the rest of the gang.

It looks bright but deeply troubled. He agrees to drink and vaping while we talk. Muhammad told us that he had experienced racist abuse – something he rejected for sure that the girl has participated.

One of his friends comes in. He says, “I know what we’re doing, but we young children, we’re gonna have fun.” “I’m sorry for most people we are damaged, but I don’t sympathize … It’s just a way to remove my anger.”

Labor new promise last year “Respect for orders” Similarly from city centers to prohibit permanent criminals. Since it will be introduced within the scope of the crime and police draft passing through Parliament, violating the orders will be a crime for possible penalties including two -year imprisonment, unlimited fines or unpaid work.

This will replace the current civilian precautionary measures. However, respect orders do not apply to under the age of 18. A change aims to reduce it to 16, but it is still not applied to the younger person.

Ministers also promised more Neighborhood policing. In Shirley, Muhammad’s complaint is not the number of civil servants, but a lack of power or reluctance in cope with young people. “You don’t see any action against them, or he says. “You feel they’re above the law.”

Local kick Officer PC Tom Byrne says he recognizes anxiety and is dealt with antisocial behavior.

In July, BBC News, “results will be,” said BBC News, “We need to remember you are dealing with young people,” he said.

In order to keep young people away from the criminal justice system, such instincts are deeply rooted in policing – perhaps in the hope of the emergence of antisocial behavior. However, in the long, hot summer of 2025, the problem worsened.

Behaviors like this are not only on a street and not just young people. Neil Gibson, a few miles along the southern coast in Portsmouth, knows the cost of repeated antisocial behavior. Car repair work has been hit many times, the same group believes by the young man. Security camera footage shows that a hooded youth draws a broom with a broom.

Neil controls security cameras from home in some evening. “I made a phone [the police] And look, if you send someone now, you’ll catch them – a perfect situation. I’m afraid they weren’t interested. “

He’s moved, he says he doesn’t report every event anymore.

In the nearby Fratton, an old industrial part of Portsmouth, we see what the police are against.

PC Chris Middleton, who patrols the cemetery one evening, tries to stop a path on a young man on an electric scooter – but the masquerade figure only ignores the console and accelerates.

We ask PC Middleton if some people can see why the police believe that they are weak. “Yes, I feel,” he says. “Sometimes I feel that we really need to be more robust, and we need more support from the government to deal with these things.”

Shortly thereafter, a convicted theft was searched and arrested.

This is a similar story for councils that use community guards to comprehend antisocial behaviors of the country. Jason, a manager of the Portsmouth Municipal Assembly, said to us by multiplying his workload, “Many police goods are being reduced to antisocial behavior.”

CLLR Matt Boughton, President of the Local Government Association’s Safety and Stronger Communities Committee, says to BBC News, “They say they have to take more steps when the police resources are stretched … Already stretched councils, unsustainable pressure”.

These problems in the communities we visit – and others like them around the country – then can it really be solved?

Donna Jones, Hampshire police and criminal commissioner (PCC), which includes working as well as a wider criminal justice system. The former Conservative Assembly member thinks that the police need a change of approach to deal with young people and their parents.

When visiting the tradesmen in Shirley, it was to adopt a slightly slow approach, “To be certainly honest to you, it was a slightly slower approach, but some of these young people are really terrible, bad crimes.” He says they are uncomfortable by a “urban street gang of many young girls”.

“What we need to do is to put parents into the record of some of these things, so perhaps some changes in the legislation that makes parents much more accountable.”

Authorities have a series of authorities, such as civilian precautionary measures, community protection notifications, disintegration orders and criminal behavior orders – the original antisocial behavior order (ASBO) was changed in 2014. Parents may also be good and even remove social housing.

However, not all of them are valid for children, and the use of scaled ones will blame more children. Such measures require time and evidence about young people who push police and councils and often vulnerable young people.

There were arrests. A young person was accused of 22 crimes, including attack, theft, arson, criminal damage, violation of the disintegration order, and racial aggravated harassment. After missing a previous hearing, the young man appeared at the Southampton Youth Court last week and will reappear next month.

After months of permanent antisocial behavior, the situation in Shirley calmed down in recent weeks.

Police Minister Sarah Jones, who responded to the BBC, said, “For a long time, people have not seen the police patrol on the streets,” he said. “This government has increased police patrols in high crime zones throughout our country,” this government, “this government has increased throughout our summer attempt,” he said.

“We send a clear message: a crime will be punished,” he said.

And on Thursday, the prime minister will take measures to give communities more power to “seize boarding shops” and “block gambling and steam shops on the streets”.

The Hampshire police told us that antisocial behaviors in Shirley High Street “tried to answer as many reports as possible”, but it was forced to balance against an increase in emergency calls.

Far from turmoil, we found more positive news.

As the summer ends and the children return to school, 15 -year -old Jaiden remembers the clocks he spent in a police cell after being arrested. From the couch of his house in Shirley, he tells us that he creates a problem in the shops “almost every day”.

“It was fun to angry people, but then I noticed after a while.”

His mother, Kylie, said that after he felt that he had lost his son for peer pressure, he took action to the police. “I asked them two or three times, ‘I just arrested him.’

He has been reading a list of rules that his mother and mother have signed a voluntary “acceptable behavior agreement” since then. It involves not stealing it, not threatening it, or using a foul or abusive language and quitting shops when ordered. If he sleeps, he can avoid court.

Jaiden promises that he will never return to this lifestyle. He says, “I regret all of them.”