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Yet Another Brutal Murder In Our Capital City.
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When is something going to be done as regards this mainly Black Community problem, or is this the reason why the authorities are reluctant to address this escalating problem, that is now rife in most of our large cities?
When is something going to be done as regards this mainly Black Community problem, or is this the reason why the authorities are reluctant to address this escalating problem, that is now rife in most of our large cities?
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And still some ABers tell us education is the answer. That may achieve positive results in 20 years time but meanwhile in the here and now the butchers bill rises and the ill informed still maintain state sanctioned murder is a crime by re-introducing Capital Punishment.
I would guess many a black family are now wishing it had been introduced instead of them complaining years ago about police sterotyping Black youth with stop and search. A power that was severly eroded and diluted just to please the black community. That little sweetener has backfired also. Now the Black parents are howling the police are not doing enough. You reap what you sow.
At this rate the white population will again be the majority in certain areas of S.E. London.
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I would guess many a black family are now wishing it had been introduced instead of them complaining years ago about police sterotyping Black youth with stop and search. A power that was severly eroded and diluted just to please the black community. That little sweetener has backfired also. Now the Black parents are howling the police are not doing enough. You reap what you sow.
At this rate the white population will again be the majority in certain areas of S.E. London.
re and nowar
Trevor Phillips the former "equality chief" has his thoughts.
//Mr Phillips, the former head of the United Kingdom’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR), made the comments in an opinion piece in The Telegraph on Friday, following a string of stabbings in London and Birmingham.
Referencing a report released on Thursday which revealed that some 27,000 under-19s in England identify themselves as being part of a gang, Mr Phillips noted that in terms of youth gang violence, “black boys are more than 20 times as likely to be involved in serious attacks compared with their white peers.”
“Yet, to read our newspapers and to listen to our media, you would imagine that race played no part in this issue at all,” the Policy Exchange think tank senior fellow wrote.
“The BBC in particular is guilty of whitewashing the truth. Its defence is that race should only be reported where it is relevant. Yet it has no qualms about routinely describing stop and search by police in racial terms.”
“The daily parade of dark faces in items about knife crime tells its own story,” he remarked. “And the routine appearance of such individuals as ‘Olu from Brixton’ in radio interviews would provoke howls of ‘racist dog-whistling’ around Broadcasting House were the BBC’s own journalists not so deeply complicit in the silence.”
Admonishing police, the media, and politicians for wasting time and resources by arguing over police numbers and “tough tactics”, Mr Phillips said, “We need to focus honestly on who is dying and who is doing the killing if we are to stop the carnage.”//
Can't really argue with that now can you?
//Mr Phillips, the former head of the United Kingdom’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR), made the comments in an opinion piece in The Telegraph on Friday, following a string of stabbings in London and Birmingham.
Referencing a report released on Thursday which revealed that some 27,000 under-19s in England identify themselves as being part of a gang, Mr Phillips noted that in terms of youth gang violence, “black boys are more than 20 times as likely to be involved in serious attacks compared with their white peers.”
“Yet, to read our newspapers and to listen to our media, you would imagine that race played no part in this issue at all,” the Policy Exchange think tank senior fellow wrote.
“The BBC in particular is guilty of whitewashing the truth. Its defence is that race should only be reported where it is relevant. Yet it has no qualms about routinely describing stop and search by police in racial terms.”
“The daily parade of dark faces in items about knife crime tells its own story,” he remarked. “And the routine appearance of such individuals as ‘Olu from Brixton’ in radio interviews would provoke howls of ‘racist dog-whistling’ around Broadcasting House were the BBC’s own journalists not so deeply complicit in the silence.”
Admonishing police, the media, and politicians for wasting time and resources by arguing over police numbers and “tough tactics”, Mr Phillips said, “We need to focus honestly on who is dying and who is doing the killing if we are to stop the carnage.”//
Can't really argue with that now can you?
/// Referencing a report released on Thursday which revealed that some 27,000 under-19s in England identify themselves as being part of a gang, ///
The police know who most of these gangs are, perhaps the first thing to do is to make these gangs illegal and being a member of them illegal also.
Isn't that what they have done to some Far-Right groups?
The police know who most of these gangs are, perhaps the first thing to do is to make these gangs illegal and being a member of them illegal also.
Isn't that what they have done to some Far-Right groups?
Well at least Sadiq Khan, made his usual valuable contribution.
/// Sadiq Khan said he was 'filled with anger' and 'devastated' by the killing of the teenager.
In a tweet this morning, the Mayor of London said: 'Devastated by the fatal stabbing of a 17 year-old girl in Havering.
'My thoughts are with her loved ones. It fills me with anger that violent criminals are targeting young Londoners with their whole lives before them. I encourage anyone with information to contact the police.' ///
Don't hold your breath Mr Khan.
/// Sadiq Khan said he was 'filled with anger' and 'devastated' by the killing of the teenager.
In a tweet this morning, the Mayor of London said: 'Devastated by the fatal stabbing of a 17 year-old girl in Havering.
'My thoughts are with her loved ones. It fills me with anger that violent criminals are targeting young Londoners with their whole lives before them. I encourage anyone with information to contact the police.' ///
Don't hold your breath Mr Khan.
retrocop - // And still some ABers tell us education is the answer. That may achieve positive results in 20 years time …
I am someone who has always advocated education - at the nursery and primary end of the system as the answer to this and most social ills in society.
But I have never put forward that argument without the point that it will never happen because politicians by definition, are short-term thinkers, and want only results that will get them re-elected.
For what they perceive as a 'genuine place in history', they prefer to go for disrupting Brexit or signing up to HS2.
I am someone who has always advocated education - at the nursery and primary end of the system as the answer to this and most social ills in society.
But I have never put forward that argument without the point that it will never happen because politicians by definition, are short-term thinkers, and want only results that will get them re-elected.
For what they perceive as a 'genuine place in history', they prefer to go for disrupting Brexit or signing up to HS2.
Not wishing to indulge in the Brexit debate but I can't helping that a helluva lot of political business has fallen by the wayside because of it.
I'm not sure how that equates to initiatives and multi-agency working towards knife crime but I suspect,the police in particular,are banging their heads on a brick wall.
Communication is two-way and somebody in these knife crime communities knows the score.
Who will or who dares speak out? Sadly,more often than not disagreeing parties prefer to sort matters out themselves with devastating consequences.
I'm not sure how that equates to initiatives and multi-agency working towards knife crime but I suspect,the police in particular,are banging their heads on a brick wall.
Communication is two-way and somebody in these knife crime communities knows the score.
Who will or who dares speak out? Sadly,more often than not disagreeing parties prefer to sort matters out themselves with devastating consequences.
Doesn't say in this link either.
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