Knife Carnage in London

[Dauphin]

I would say it is just the piece for the day.

I read a piece in the Telegraph the other day:

However, research has suggested that when young white schoolboys admit to having carried a knife, they are talking about legal pen-knives less than three inches in length.

[Nostromo]

Its the bad influence of the French!

[Asher]

That is an absolutely terrible song.

[Snotty]

Originally posted by C0ckney

whats the problem?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: Re: Re: Knife Carnage in London

Originally posted by Victor Galis


I imagine the skill required to throw a knife and hit someone in a vital point from a moving vehicle is well beyond most criminals.

But in all seriousness, is there an actual stabbing epidemic or just a lot of media hype? It's actually not hard to create the illusion of a crime wave by reporting incidents that wouldn't have made the news at another time.

There was a great media outcry last year about gun killings in London- however the BCS once again returned a national decrease in homicides for the year.

Recorded homicides have been decreasing, year-on-year, since the "Shipman spike" of 2001. However, the fewer the homicides, the greater the media focus on each individual case. Hence the usual frenzy.

[MOBIUS]

Another one last night...

True, it is hyped by the media as overall reported knife crimes are down.

What is the worrying trend, however, is the relative explosion of knife incidents amongst teenagers, especially in London...

[Cort Haus]

The site of the Ben Kinsella stabbing in Islington is not far from where I live. There's a shrine of flowers and tributes there now and I stopped for a look while staggering home from the pub last night. I'm not usually one to indulge in mawkishness over such things, but all of the tributes written on the pavement, the Arsenal scarves, and people milling around keeping candles alight was quite moving.

People are getting pissed off with the current teenage fashion for murder. Especially most teenagers, I expect.

[Nostromo]

WTF is wrong with these kids?

BTW, wasn't there a suicide wave in some English town?

[Dauphin]

Welsh town.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Dauphin
In Bromley they are more inventive, they use screwdrivers rather than knives to stab people.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Nostromo
WTF is wrong with these kids?

BTW, wasn't there a suicide wave in some English town?

Originally posted by Dauphin
Welsh town.

Easily understood.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Easily understood.

Yeah, just over a year ago Bridgend found out it was being twinned with Dumbass, TX. The rest is, unfortunately, well known...

Still, at least they are killing themselves instead of other people.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, these things are worryingly close to home - Lee, Sidcup, Bromley...all within a very short distance of my house. And the thing is these places are not what you'd define as rough by any stretch of the imagination. Although to be fair though, New Cross is a dump - sorry MOBIUS

I saw an episode of "Have I Got News For You" the other night hosted by Alexander Armstrong and he was talking about the opening of Dickens World near Rochester. His comment was "It allows people to experience the squalour and deprivation of Victorian London, who can't make it to New Cross"