Rugby league has often fallen victim to the same stereotypes that have blighted parts of western Sydney, but dedicated volunteers are helping make the game a force for good in the community.
Speaking at the launch NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said it was an extension of the Fit for Life program, an early intervention program designed to engage at-risk youths across the state.
BOSCAR's executive director Jackie Fitzgerald says it is impossible to measure "gang related crime" but there are crimes that might loosely fit gang-related offences — such as murder, shooting, and offending by youths. She says on the most recent data there is no evidence of any increase in such activity."In terms of the relative level of crime in Penrith it is slightly higher than the state average.
Internationally recognised criminologist, Distinguished Professor Rob White, has presented often on the complexities of defining gangs: "They feed off people coming together. I can nearly guarantee you 99 per cent of issues happening around those games are not the players, and not the coaches, and not the people involved.
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