Notting Hill Carnival

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/notting-hill-carnival-2018-knife-arches-to-be-installed-at-parade-for-first-time-ever-a3919071.html

Will knife arches and about 13,000 police officers be enough to prevent more knife crime in 'Wild West' London?

[Rockrose]

I think we can expect several more over the weekend too! How exciting.

[Zacs-Master]

I'm not sure how I'll contain myself. shudder.

[THECORBYLOON]

I was wondering yesterday if I'd missed ANOTHEOLDGIT's annual Carnival mump.

The MOBO awards will be next, in a few months' time...

[Zacs-Master]

No doubt.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

While some keep giving, I will keep on accepting and then sharing, since I am not a selfish person.

[bainbrig]

Notting Hill Carnival = black people = stabbings.

Is THAT what we’re supposed to believe?

Police figures indicate that stabbings are just as much a ‘white’ as a ‘black’ crime.

To suggest otherwise, even by what passes for subtlety round here, is a disgusting racist slur.

[jackthehat]

///I was wondering yesterday if I'd missed ANOTHEOLDGIT's annual Carnival mump.
The MOBO awards will be next, in a few months' time... ///

He missed his yearly opportunity to bemoan the lack of a 'Straight Pride' event early last month during the Gay Pride season....

[naomi24]

Bainbrig, //Police figures indicate that stabbings are just as much a ‘white’ as a ‘black’ crime. //

Could you post a link to those figures please. There aren't many white people in these pictures.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7090748/lawless-london-murder-rate-hits-one-hundred-for-the-year-as-bloodshed-continues/

[dannyk13]

Naomi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/29/the-guardian-view-on-knife-crime-getting-the-facts

[naomi24]

Thanks danny. That it's equally proportioned is certainly not the case in London then.

[dannyk13]

Naomi, that is probably due to there being more drug gangs etc in London.

[naomi24]

Possibly.

[naomi24]

spath, I know.

[ToraToraTora]

brainrig: "Notting Hill Carnival = black people = stabbings."
so say the stats.
"Is THAT what we’re supposed to believe?" - see the stats
"Police figures indicate that stabbings are just as much a ‘white’ as a ‘black’ crime." - can you post a link to those figures.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: "Yeah! The annual NHC carnival thread est arivee! ": followed by TROB hand wringers, It's da culcha innit! We must accept this crime fest and furnish it with plods, that to listen to the usual apologists, we ain't got! yep it's August BH Monday!

[jackthehat]

ooooo, lovely..... a new Geezerism, coming soon to lots of threads near you....
"It's da culcha innit".

[mushroom25]

this is an interesting read - concerning a retrospective look at the 2016 carnival:-
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/notting_hill_carnival_investigation_evidence.pdf

[anotheoldgit]

dannyk13

/// Naomi, that is probably due to there being more drug gangs etc in London. ///

Well if we are going down the 'equality' path, are there only Black drug gangs in London?