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https://fullfact.org/crime/are-majority-youth-knife-offenders-minority-ethnic/

The BBC news has just reported the remand hearing this morning at the Magistrates court, saying it was a kitchen knife, not a machete.

Facts from an old white woman. On a national scale, white males between 21 and 25 seem statistically more likely to get into a car crash with 3,036 car accidents in 2021, followed by 26- to 30-year-olds with 2,958 accidents and 31- to 35-year-olds in third place with 2,821.

Her name is Elianne Adnan.

I haven't heard any updates this morning but this was on the BBC website. Witnesses said there had been an argument with a boy who tried to give the girl or her friend flowers. It is very distressing, and I feel for her family and friends.

She was going out with him. She wanted to finish it. He offered her flowers. She refused them. He stabbed her. Those are facts. A young man who couldn't handle rejection and a young girl lost her life because of his inability to handle real life.

State sponsored murder with some innocent victims.

It wasn’t a jibe but following on from the discussion about austerity. Austerity was a policy which completely wrecked the Criminal Justice System, and other public services. Here’s an article about his work at that time. https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/london-diary-3

https://yjlc.uk/resources/legal-updates/knife-crime-new-minimum-custodial-sentences-children-aged-16-and-17

a) Rishi Sunak was a hedge fund manager during the global crash.

That’s why I mentioned the Criminal Justice System as a whole as well as the police.

It doesn’t help when 1000 Met officers are suspended whilst being investigated for sexual offences and/or domestic violence.

Astonishingly, the early 70s were under Ted Heath. Labour didn't come into power until 1974.

Ah yes, stop and search. If only we had the numbers of police on the streets to stop and search. PS see my previous post. I agree with @Beanstalk, youth services have been obliterated in this country. Keep the kids off the streets and into youth clubs, boxing clubs, football etc and it will...

Knife crime is not a new phenomenon. In the 1930s and 40s there were razor gangs in Brighton. In the 50s, there were teddy boys with flick knives. I remember a woman being stabbed by her husband in the 70s. I worked with her. The number of police has been reduced and not replaced, so cannot...