Knife crime in London.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...gland-london-17255473

The previous questioner asked;

"Do you think Boris or Ken will be Mayor of London after the election"?

Well whoever gets in, which one will address one of the biggest problems in our Capital, that being the escalation of gang stabbings.

With expected visitors from abroad coming to London for the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond jubilee, could this gang problem frighten some away?

What measures should the MET. now take to address this on-going problem?

Have they been too lax in the past?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Knife crime in London is is not escalating. There is a problem, but it is being over egged by people such as AOG withe right wing agenda. ///

You are so hypocritical Gromit, you blame me for my Right-Wing agenda, yet you yourself are not slow to spout your Left-Wing agenda all the time.

You say that knife crime in London is not escalating, this if from my Left-Wing BBC link.

/// A Metropolitan Police Commander has said he is "very concerned" over the "escalation in gang violence" following eight knife attacks in south London. ///

5 stabbings in different areas of London on 25 February 2012

2 stabbings in different areas of London on 02 March 2012

1 Stabbing in London on 04 March 2012

8 stabbings in South London in 9 days

Taking into account your blinked Left-Wing bias one must agree with Commander David Zinzan, there is defiantly an escalation.

Yes there is definitely a problem, an escalating problem, but it seems that Left-Wingers such as yourself do not wish to know.

'wake up and smell the coffee'?

[Davethedog]

Two days without a stabbing do we therefore take it there is a decline in stabbing in London?

[Davethedog]

First there was 5 then two then one now none I call that a decline.

[sp1814]

AOG

But this is skewed away from your original question.

These knife crimes almost exclusively occur between rival gang members. You were asking how this would affect visitors to the Olympics.

I would suggest that it would have a negligible impact, in the same way that the turf war between the bloods and the crips didn't stop me visiting Los Angeles to go to Disneyland a few years back.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

There have been shootings also and not all the victims have been gang members, just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

London as become a violent city and the world knows it unfortunately.

[Gromit]

AOG

London has a population of 7,750,000. You are highlighting a very very small number of deaths. Nationally, the murder rate far from escalating was the lowest for 12 years in 2011.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

You are making excuses again, we are talking about the escalating knife crimes in London, not the population of London, or the National Murder figures.

Crime statistics in London for the 12 months November 2010 to October 2011 compared to the same period the previous year.

Knife crime up 13.6%

Rape offences up 10.6%

Homicide up 7.6%

http://www.mpa.gov.uk/statistics/crime-stats/

[exdc]

"First there was 5 then two then one now none I call that a decline."

These are only the Reported knife crimes, not what really happens.

[exdc]

AOG, origionally and rightly asked "could this gang problem frighten SOME away?" with knife crime (and Rape crime) both UP.