Spencer, Robert. WebKnife crime tends to be more prevalent in large cities, particularly in London. I am of course thinking of such things as immigration and grooming gangs, which we are sometimes discouraged from talking about for the sake of political correctness.Linda MarriottLincoln, Join the debate email guardian.letters@theguardian.com, Read more Guardian letters click here to visit gu.com/letters, Do you have a photo youd like to share with Guardian readers? Knife crime a much greater concern among ethnic minority Britons Analytics cookies help us understand how our website is being used. The stock-in-trade now of the capitals broadcast journalists is to push an infantile and simplistic analysis based around the twin ideas of white racism and black victimhood. There may also be some similar effect from more effective sentencing; however better sentencing decisions and improved rehabilitation may have a positive effect on many offenders. Friends of Jordan Malutshi, a 17-year-old stabbed to death in 2012, were stopped and searched at a memorial barbecue at Patmore Estate in Wandsworth, south London. This decision was made because currently knife crime, whilst not a volume crime, have significantly higher volumes than gun crime. The real Biden was executed for his crimes long ago along with Clinton. Some 5,410 of these crimes (39 percent) were knife possession offenses, which are not at all synonymous with knife attacks, as the Minutemen Militia meme apparently categorized them. 2.2 The knife crime strategy will address inequality by standing with communities against knife crime and supporting victims while protecting young people and offering early intervention and ways out of crime. 801 3rd St. S Approve the allocation of 625,000 for FY 2017/18 to support the implementation and delivery of the strategy action plan and key commitments detailed within the strategy; Working with the Sentencing Council and National Police Chiefs Council to ensure appropriate sentences and sentence guidance for knife crime offences ; Focused roundtables Additionally, we had several roundtables with our gangs panel, schools, young people under the care of the criminal justice service and within our secure estates; health professionals, voluntary and community sector. Read about our approach to external linking. District of Columbia WebThe causes of black-on-black knife crime are the same as those of white-on-white knife crime but we do not speak of white-on-white violence. Source data for By ethnicity over time from 2019 (CSV). The English countryside is the least of the average ethnic-minority person's worries tbh. A 16-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in west London, making him the 30th teenage homicide in the capital in 2021, surpassing a peak of 29 in 2008. In the UK, "Asian" is typically used to describe people of South Asian descent (e.g., Pakistani, Indian, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi) unlike in the United States, where "Asian" is more often used to describe people of East Asian descent (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean). Knife crime was on the rise in London prior to 2018. 33701 Next, lets look at who the offenders might be. Ten people arrested for murder after man dies in west London Nationally, 3% of the population is black, 5% of murder victims are black and 13% of murder suspects are black. As it happens, Huugo was swiftly eliminated from inquiries. Seventy-five percent of victims of knife crime are males younger than 25, according to police data from 2016 and 2017. Black This is something we will continue to monitor and review alongside the PCP annual review. London teen homicides: Boy's stabbing is record 30th killing Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Video proves John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive. We use relative likelihoods in the data to make comparisons, for example black people were over 3 times as likely to be arrested as white people. (A spreadsheet with this data can be downloaded here.). Without exception, there are no lost causes, as long as we keep them alive.Julian Lee(Executive headteacher in east London, 2010-2018), Winchester, Hampshire. That then rose to 3.7 times as likely between 2016 and 2019. We are keeping deadly weapons off our streets by: Reviewing the adoption of the Responsible Retailers Agreement by London businesses, and reconvening national Trading Standards, local Business Crime Reduction Partnerships and regional partners and agencies to continue partnership working and information sharing on best practice on tackling the challenges around both online and instore illegal sale of knives at a pan-London level; 1.4 The Knife Crime Challenge in London. You can download the data for Lancashire from April 2006 to March 2017. Crime in London - Statistics & Facts | Statista We turned up no available figures on the proportion of knife crimes in 2017 perpetrated by Muslims, or by immigrants, or by Muslim immigrants. Perspective on black knife crime | Letters | The Guardian Strengthening the work of the MPS Trident and Area Crime Command to identify and address issues of particular vulnerability amongst young Londoners, including work on County Lines drug dealing, where vulnerable people are exploited by criminals to deliver drugs to and from other areas; By ethnicity (CSV) In that vein, the right-wing "Minutemen Militia" Facebook page posted a meme in April 2018 which asserted that "Muslim immigrants" were responsible for the vast majority of "knife attacks" taking place in London the preceding year: We found no evidence to support the notion that the vast majority of such crimes were committed by Muslim immigrants. Pride of place on the regional evening news on Tuesday was given over not to the need for police to go in harder against gang violence but rather to complaints about a traumatic incident that took place in June 2020. We surveyed 700 16-24 year olds in the Talk London survey in the development of the Police and Crime Plan and have conducted face to face interviews with over 400 young people from our most disproportionately affected boroughs with regards to knife crime and stop and search. In a statement the Met said it regards it as an "invaluable tool" that takes several thousand weapons off the streets each year, and has been backed by Commissioner Cressida Dick. WebThe City of London police force area has been excluded due to the small number of people living in the area compared with those who visit. of knife Evaluating the feasibility of the introduction of a Licensing Scheme for knives in England; "What you're finding is - and this has come out of the mouth of a few young people I've spoken to - that teenagers actually know people who can stitch [their wounds] up. APPENDIX C - Integrated Impact Assessment - Spreadsheet This is an increase of 746 representing 22.8% more than in the preceding year. In 2016 just 2.4% of all knife crime was flagged by the MPS as gang related. Source data for By ethnicity and area (CSV), Download table data for College of Policing document said there is no link Our verdict In England and Wales 38% of knife possession offenders under 25s were non-white in 2017. (As far as we can tell, law enforcement agencies in the UK do not routinely track the religious affiliation of persons arrested on suspicion of criminal offenses. Statistics show a third of all those accused of offences where a gun was fired (237 out of 668) in London since 2012 were aged 19 or under. Don't worry. Her head and arms covered in blood, she is confused and distressed. Improving the services available to victims of knife crime through our victims services commissioning work and extending the support for young victims of knife crime with injury broadening support to families. If black lives really are to matter, we need stronger action against knife crime. The arrest rate is the number of people arrested from a particular ethnic group out of every 1,000 people from the same group. During the calendar year of 2018, there were 14,700 recorded knife crimes, according to the service. Working with the CitySafe scheme and retailers to cover the top 20 fast food outlets in London that are linked to serious youth violence, as well as exploring with TfL extending this to transport hubs; WebThe launch of this strategy follows an increase in knife crime offences in London - In the 12 months to March 2017, over 12,000 knife crime offences were recorded in London. So one might have expected the staff of the BBCs London newsroom to make the need for stronger action against knife crime a major theme of their coverage in the first week of 2022. Working with partners to produce a toolkit with information and advice on what to do in the aftermath of a knife crime, aimed to help front line workers such as teachers and doctors, faith groups and community groups to recognise the signs of trauma in family members and friends affected by a knife crime and to take appropriate steps to support them. Supporting a trauma informed approach to our interventions when commissioning rehabilitation services. Chemtrails are being put into the atmosphere and are trickling down into soil and water, becoming the real cause of disease., "There is no Biden presidency. A person arrested for a notifiable offence is counted each time they are arrested. This is also where the Deputy Mayor has individually met with Borough Leaders and Commanders of our most affected boroughs, community champions/leaders and charitable trusts/organisations on an ad-hoc basis to discuss the proposed strategy. Hosting an event with Academy chains and Governmental bodies to better understand their needs and agree a plan of action to help tackle knife crime; WebOther London Boroughs with high gun and knife crime rates include Brent, Haringey and Hackney. "There is a huge overlap between victims and offenders," according to the knife crime plan. 18 MB, Arrests Data March 2006 to March 2010 Email interview with City of London police, Feb. 5, 2019, Email interview with Callum Jones, media and communications officer, Metropolitan Police Service, Feb. 5, 2019, The New York Times, "London confronts a spate of murders, with most victims killed by knives," April 7, 2018, Mayor of London, The London Knife Crime Strategy, June 2017, The New York Times, "Rising knife violence alarms Britani as youths take up blades," May 3, 2017, Metropolitan Police Service, Hate crime or special crime dashboard, visited Feb. 5, 2019, The Guardian, "Surge in knife and gun crime in England and Wales," April 26, 2018, The Sun, "Endless knife crime: London stabbings 2018 - latest knife crime statistics and attacks in Clapham, Crouch Hill, Hammersmith and Greenwich," Jan. 6, 2019, BBC, "Nine charts on the rise of knife crime in England and Wales," Nov. 5, 2018, Office for National Statistics, Crime in England and Wales: year ending September 2018, BBC, "Is another year of rising knife crime ahead?" Dr Rakib Ehsan on Twitter: "The English countryside is the least Huugos mental scars should not be decried, but nor surely should they be allowed to take precedence over the horrific physical scars of the young people being killed or maimed in knife attacks. They are not used to identify you personally. Reviewing the MPS Gangs Matrix, which identifies the most violent gang members in London, and strengthen the identification of young people who are involved in serious violence, whether perpetrators or victims;