A SECOND teenager was stabbed to death in Edmonton yesterday – in broad daylight this time.
And kebab-loving, I’m-scared-of-the-dark, home secretary Jacqi Smith wants schools to install metal detectors in schools to stop youths carrying knives (see the nationals for more).
I’ve no idea what the answer is to put an end to all of this youth-on-youth crime.
Enfield police told me in an interview that knife crime is going down, and the figures show this to be true.
But they also admitted that Edmonton is a hot-spot problem area.
It’s time to stop sticking to stats and look at the underlying issues.
No one’s asking why a growing trend for teenage violence is sweeping across London at such a rapid rate.
Since most knife attacks happen outside of school, it makes more sense for the focus to be on the streets. And for energies to be spent on investigating what’s making youths want to carry a knife in the first place.
Rather than simply prosecuting them when they do.
And kebab-loving, I’m-scared-of-the-dark, home secretary Jacqi Smith wants schools to install metal detectors in schools to stop youths carrying knives (see the nationals for more).
I’ve no idea what the answer is to put an end to all of this youth-on-youth crime.
Enfield police told me in an interview that knife crime is going down, and the figures show this to be true.
But they also admitted that Edmonton is a hot-spot problem area.
It’s time to stop sticking to stats and look at the underlying issues.
No one’s asking why a growing trend for teenage violence is sweeping across London at such a rapid rate.
Since most knife attacks happen outside of school, it makes more sense for the focus to be on the streets. And for energies to be spent on investigating what’s making youths want to carry a knife in the first place.
Rather than simply prosecuting them when they do.
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