They don’t really explain this in the article but is it drug use that drives homicide (in the same way they talk about alcohol) or is it selling of drugs? Is it all drugs (e.g. nicotine and alcohol) or just illegal drugs?
Why are drugs illegal? Because they lead to serious crime.
Why is social media illegal? 👀
I wonder when they’ll realise what we already know. Drugs prohibition fuels the crime.
In the article Vikram Dodd wrote
>Six factors were identified by studying the 50 cases in depth. Police had already identified key factors behind them but the behavioural insight experts reassessed them.
> The key factors for either the victim or killers were mental ill health, a factor in 29 cases; drugs, which were a factor in 26 killings; alcohol, a factor in 16 cases; gangs, a factor in 14 cases; and social media, a factor in 14.
And here now is the dumbed down headline from the BBC:
“London homicides driven by drugs and social media, study finds”
BBC seeking to take The Daily Mail’s audience.
Hello? Yes this is the surface level correlation without delving into the root causes of problems and how they interlink with eachother department.
When will David Lammy’s comments be taken seriously
Not poverty no? The main reason people start taking drugs is because their life is total shit already so who cares. But no let’s ignore the real issues and pump more money into policing shite laws that do noting to address the actual issues
How could you possibly quantity this in a study. I want to read it
Do they mean they are just now finding this out? lol
Because it’s totally backward.
Don’t embrace social media and criminalise drugs, criminalise social media and embrace drugs.
Easy as that.
At least the Olders are just using Facebook & Twitter to spread obviously stupid conspiracy theories, rather than stabbing each other with Snapchat
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They don’t really explain this in the article but is it drug use that drives homicide (in the same way they talk about alcohol) or is it selling of drugs? Is it all drugs (e.g. nicotine and alcohol) or just illegal drugs?
Why are drugs illegal? Because they lead to serious crime.
Why is social media illegal? 👀
I wonder when they’ll realise what we already know. Drugs prohibition fuels the crime.
Legalise drugs.
Yesterday The Guardian reported on the same study. The headline was ‘[Mental health may be biggest factor in UK homicides, study finds](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/14/mental-health-may-be-biggest-factor-uk-homicides-study)’
In the article Vikram Dodd wrote
>Six factors were identified by studying the 50 cases in depth. Police had already identified key factors behind them but the behavioural insight experts reassessed them.
> The key factors for either the victim or killers were mental ill health, a factor in 29 cases; drugs, which were a factor in 26 killings; alcohol, a factor in 16 cases; gangs, a factor in 14 cases; and social media, a factor in 14.
And here now is the dumbed down headline from the BBC:
“London homicides driven by drugs and social media, study finds”
BBC seeking to take The Daily Mail’s audience.
Hello? Yes this is the surface level correlation without delving into the root causes of problems and how they interlink with eachother department.
When will David Lammy’s comments be taken seriously
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19815831
Not poverty no? The main reason people start taking drugs is because their life is total shit already so who cares. But no let’s ignore the real issues and pump more money into policing shite laws that do noting to address the actual issues
How could you possibly quantity this in a study. I want to read it
Do they mean they are just now finding this out? lol
Because it’s totally backward.
Don’t embrace social media and criminalise drugs, criminalise social media and embrace drugs.
Easy as that.
At least the Olders are just using Facebook & Twitter to spread obviously stupid conspiracy theories, rather than stabbing each other with Snapchat