Robinson) start muscling into the area. Dushane wants to be 'top boy' -- to control the estate's lucrative drugs market - at whatever price, including killing rivals. Toyin Agbetu, whose organisation Ligali campaigns against negative stereotypes of black people, told the Independent On Sunday: 'You don't have to always portray the African community as drug-dealing, gun-toting criminals. 'This isn't the time to be going backwards and focusing on these stereotypes. We don't need to perpetuate more reasons for civil unrest; there are many great stories that don't need to focus on the boy in the hood.' Bennett has lived in Hackney for 25 years and was inspired to write the series when he saw a child dealing drugs  near his home. He did exhaustive research for two years interviewing many young people and adopting their language like 'food' for drugs, 'feds' (police) and 'foot soldiers' (drugs dealers on the street) for his series. Director, Yann Demange, defended the drama. 'Whether one likes it or not, we're shining a light on a particular part of London and it is truthful,' he said. Comments ( 76 ) I didn't say there was no crime or poverty in the UK, just that we have a welfare system which means nobody need be as desperate here in the UK as those people depicted on The Wire are. Nobody in the UK has to resort to drug dealing to put food on the table as we are guaranteed a minimum standard of living thanks to