On 9 Jun 2018 at 6:24pm Scared wrote:
County Lines dealers have come to Lewes.
London drug dealers have got dealers operating in Lewes and are targeting Priory school.
Priory school have also had cases of kids bringing knives into school too.
On 9 Jun 2018 at 6:56pm Staying in wrote:
Brighton drug dealers.
On 9 Jun 2018 at 7:11pm Hatty wrote:
County Lines - sounds like a bus company!
On 9 Jun 2018 at 9:38pm Dexter wrote:
I'm not saying there isn't a problem. I'm not saying children haven't taken knives into Priory but these are serious allegations.
Can you please give us some evidence!
On 9 Jun 2018 at 10:25pm Staying in wrote:
This is happening but county lines is police propogander and branding. Saves them from doing any real police work. How do you think ecstasy made it to the home counties? Good luck?
On 10 Jun 2018 at 10:06am and thats a fact wrote:
Staying in, all I can say in the politest way is you havnt got a fudging clue and thats a fact
On 10 Jun 2018 at 6:08pm Cokehead wrote:
Cool might be able to get some bag in Lewes then
On 10 Jun 2018 at 8:18pm Mother wrote:
@StayingIn
It's not only about drugs finding their way in to Lewes.
County Lines is about vulnerable young people and children being targeted by professional drug gangs to carry drugs in to places and being very nastily threatened if they say they don't want to.
It's a very real issue and it's potentially dangerous to belittle what is happening. I work in the health service and we have been briefed on what is going on with regard to County Lines hitting rural and semi-rural towns & villages in the south east.
Anyone who thinks County Lines is propaganda, branding or nonsense needs to do some research in to it. It's not just about concerns regarding drugs; it's about concerns regarding children and vulnerable young people being used as mules and being physically and mentally threatened in to compliance.
As a community, we should all be concerned about this as there is evidence this well known practice is spreading to our area.
On 10 Jun 2018 at 9:45pm Cokehead wrote:
To think that cocaine is a new thing to Lewes, Brighton and even the surrounding villages is naïve
On 10 Jun 2018 at 10:13pm Mother wrote:
@Cokehead
Nobody does think that.
Did you read my post?
On 10 Jun 2018 at 10:18pm Cokehead wrote:
Agreed, the exploitation of vulnerable young people is unacceptable and a very product of current government policy towards drug use
On 11 Jun 2018 at 9:01am Staying in wrote:
The police are just moving on the responsibility from themselves to the teachers and parents. All in the name austerity. It's not aparticularly new tactic by the dealers but as in all things, the age is getting younger.
On 11 Jun 2018 at 1:07pm Suddenly you care? wrote:
Generations of young people with middle class parents, plenty of spare cash and nothing to do, have progressed through Priory and Sussex Downs over the last however many years, and each and every one will have come into contact with drugs in Lewes, as the availability is staggering, the cost equally so and the ease with which someone can pick up anything they want is absurd. Lewes has had a drug problem for years and years, claiming many lives along the way, none of you cared then so why do you care now?? Speaking from personal experience, Priory school turn a blind eye and are woefully incompetent in their tackling of this issue, which MUST start with educating these young people in an honest and unpatronising way. But no, we don’t do that, we lock them up, and that’s clearly working... You’re all a bit late to jump on the ‘lewes has drugs’ band wagon, where were you ten years ago
On 11 Jun 2018 at 1:30pm Ten Years After wrote:
40 years ago I was stoned in Lewes. The Rainbow gents even had graffiti regarding the DS ( drug squad )
On 15 Jun 2018 at 12:58pm Scounse Dave wrote:
If there are vulnerable kids from London peddling drugs in Lewes they're going to get a hell of a shock when the local Albanian and Scouse drug dealers want their territory back.