Teenager ambushed and stabbed in the head at Stratford station, police say

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  1. 1) Hire more police to patrol the streets

    2) Invest in court capacity

    3) Build more prisons

    4) Instruct judges to actually hand out real sentences

    Crime is pretty much legal at the moment, and everyone knows it.

  2. Is there a sudden surge in violence involving teenagers or for whatever reason has the press jumped on finding all the stories they can in recent weeks where it’s happening?

  3. The country as a whole is getting worse in terms of how the most deprived at the bottom are becoming bigger and bigger. How do we stop the youth killing each other and choosing quick money on the street?

    There’s a lot of areas you have to look at. If we think that, actually we as a society are producing kids that are killing each other.

    The family unit and it’s means to survive, social support and care, mental health access and education. Lack of positive role models. Also how do we prevent grooming?

    There’s failures in one or more of these areas if kids are growing up and choosing or being groomed into becoming killers.

    Always there’s ppl quick to comment on sentencing etc, but you’re dealing with kids so far gone they are not thinking about any future or consequences. How do we stop them from even getting to this point?

  4. Personally I see this as a result of the youth having nothing to do. A bored, represed and poor youth are more likely to turn to crime as a way out if that cycle.

    The closing of comunity centeres, after school activities etc etc have meant that there are a growing number of young people who have had homes that are looking elsewhere for support.

    There is a direct correlation with the closing of these centers and the rise of crime and gang violence.

    Combine that with less police presence and lower sentencing rates and you have a melting pot for these attacks.

  5. Tags don’t work. Lenient sentences aren’t working. We need a harder front. Unbelievably sad how many knife incidents there are daily in the U.K. The system is broken. I’m guessing until those in charge are personally affected it won’t change. There’s flowers outside my friends house in London from a recent stabbing, so many now and yet they don’t make the news.

  6. People having kids waaay before they were ready and treat them like shit and don’t care what they do. This is at least in part thanks to that imo.

    I say this as someone who has watched people “raise” their kids like this and the outcome is more or less the same for each one. They get away with so much while growing up, even in front of their parents (throwing stones at moving cars while next to his mom is the one that stands out. She didn’t even acknowledge it.), that they don’t learn respect and restraint.

  7. 1) Build better prisons to rehabilitate people.
    2) Remove corrupt government officials who have been. syphoning money out of youth centres and education.
    3) Reform the police so the public can trust them.
    4) Make education more accessible and engaging.
    5) Stop wasting money and resources on internet drama.
    6) Stop arresting people for non violent drug offenses and send them to rehab instead.
    7) Fix the economic and housing crisis.

    Just some food for thought.

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