Harehills - Crime

Crime

See also: Harehills riot

Harehills has a poor reputation in the Leeds area, as does neighbouring Chapeltown and most of East Leeds. Harehills was subject to sporadic rioting in 2001, however there has been no unrest on such a scale since. The Fforde Green Public House had a poor reputation and has since been closed down and is now a continental supermarket. Racial motives were cited as the reason for the rioting, a claim which the West Yorkshire Police said was a poor excuse for legitimising criminal behaviour. Harehills also has problems with drug dealing and gun crime.

Read more about this topic:  Harehills

Famous quotes containing the word crime:

    “[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
    —George Farquhar (1678–1707)

    “Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. An empire is an immense egotism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)