{"id":395734,"date":"2019-02-10T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-love-on-the-streets-knife-crime-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T06:44:06","slug":"no-love-on-the-streets-knife-crime-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-love-on-the-streets-knife-crime-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo Love on the Streets\u201d: Knife Crime in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I started carrying a knife aged 12\u2026when I\u2019ve got this [samurai sword] with me I feel safe, scare tactics init \u2013 the bigger [the knife] the better\u2026No one breaks the cycle round here \u2013 the cycle never breaks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A teenager in Liverpool made these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AUFNzLq3Cm4\">statements<\/a> to the BBC. \u2018The cycle\u2019 is an ugly pattern of petty disputes, escalation, violence and revenge, a brutal cycle that is destroying the lives of thousands of young people in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>There is something fundamentally wrong with a society when children feel they have to carry deadly weapons in order to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In the year ending March 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/SN04304\">according<\/a> to Government figures, there were 40,100 \u201coffences involving a knife or sharp object\u201d in England and Wales, including 285 deaths \u2013 a record number. London has seen the highest levels of knife crime in the country; there were 14,700 attacks and half of all homicides by knife took place in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Such shocking statistics highlight the crisis, suggest patterns and correlations, but reveal little of the root causes; generalizations are riddled with errors and all too often strategies focus on the effects rather than the impelling causes, which pertain to the psychological environment and the collective atmosphere within which people are living, as well as circumstantial conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trivial disputes, fatal consequences <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victims and perpetrators of knife crime are overwhelmingly young men under 25, many are children, some as young as 12; they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/no-love-on-the-streets-knife-crime-in-britain\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started carrying a knife aged 12\u2026when I\u2019ve got this [samurai sword] with me I feel safe, scare tactics init \u2013 the bigger [the knife] the better\u2026No one breaks the cycle round here \u2013 the cycle never breaks. A teenager in Liverpool made these statements to the BBC. \u2018The cycle\u2019 is an ugly pattern of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}