Poverty has a crime problem, and the black community is more likely to be poor.
“The government’s own data shows that stop and search is not effective at reducing crime.” This is the thing that pisses me off the most. All the posturing of “tough on crime” never effectively reduces crime. Why not be tough on the cause of crime? Because that is the entire tory ideology about the freedom given to you by wealth.
what an incredibly ignorant comment from a person in a position of authority
If her children get abused, statistically it will be by a member of the family. This Tories family has a pedo problem.
White community has a serial killer problem
I’m white but why is this ?
Ah but you see the little report a few years back cured the country of any and all institutional and systemic racism. Tories can use this to blame communities for their own problems, they have always done this but now they have a supporting report. This absolves them of any responsibility in that area especially in reducing poverty which they also blame entirely on individuals.
Conservatives love this trope, linking skin colour to crime. When you mention that stabbing a in Glasgow are very high, and would they say this is an issue with white culture – they have no answer.
Anything but address poverty for the Tories.
It has a problem, however it is because of poverty. Black people are not naturally criminals and it is not part of their culture, they have been continually let down by the government, who have happily let the problem fester as it allows them to demonise black people in the media.
Stop and search white people at the same rate and see how quickly the crime rate rockets up…
Crime is a poverty problem, a situation exacerbated by decades of Tory misrule.
It’s a hopelessness problem, not a black problem. If you ever watch a programme about black people I’m often struck by how much the parents want their children to sucede. But they live in these God awful crumbling estates where there is little chance of escape into well paid jobs, even though they are ironically living cheek by jowl to the wealthy City. But those jobs are reserved for the privileged, privately educated in the main.
I would like to see after school/weekend academias in Sport/technology etc, so that young people have a choice to avoid the criminal gangs’pull on those desperate and dangerous streets. They need choices and opportunities not stigmatising.
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Poverty has a crime problem, and the black community is more likely to be poor.
“The government’s own data shows that stop and search is not effective at reducing crime.” This is the thing that pisses me off the most. All the posturing of “tough on crime” never effectively reduces crime. Why not be tough on the cause of crime? Because that is the entire tory ideology about the freedom given to you by wealth.
what an incredibly ignorant comment from a person in a position of authority
If her children get abused, statistically it will be by a member of the family. This Tories family has a pedo problem.
White community has a serial killer problem
I’m white but why is this ?
Ah but you see the little report a few years back cured the country of any and all institutional and systemic racism. Tories can use this to blame communities for their own problems, they have always done this but now they have a supporting report. This absolves them of any responsibility in that area especially in reducing poverty which they also blame entirely on individuals.
Conservatives love this trope, linking skin colour to crime. When you mention that stabbing a in Glasgow are very high, and would they say this is an issue with white culture – they have no answer.
Anything but address poverty for the Tories.
It has a problem, however it is because of poverty. Black people are not naturally criminals and it is not part of their culture, they have been continually let down by the government, who have happily let the problem fester as it allows them to demonise black people in the media.
Stop and search white people at the same rate and see how quickly the crime rate rockets up…
Crime is a poverty problem, a situation exacerbated by decades of Tory misrule.
It’s a hopelessness problem, not a black problem. If you ever watch a programme about black people I’m often struck by how much the parents want their children to sucede. But they live in these God awful crumbling estates where there is little chance of escape into well paid jobs, even though they are ironically living cheek by jowl to the wealthy City. But those jobs are reserved for the privileged, privately educated in the main.
I would like to see after school/weekend academias in Sport/technology etc, so that young people have a choice to avoid the criminal gangs’pull on those desperate and dangerous streets. They need choices and opportunities not stigmatising.