{"id":583149,"date":"2025-11-20T19:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583149\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:29:32","slug":"weve-got-your-boy-episode-1-hurt-people-hurt-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583149\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Got Your Boy: Episode 1, Hurt people, hurt people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-banner-excerpt\">The perpetrators of serious youth violence are often victims themselves, of failing systems of support that if they worked properly could have prevented needless loss of life. How can we stop it, if we don\u2019t address its root causes?<\/p>\n<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BristolCable_SchoolToPrison_02_AW-768x543.jpg\" class=\"attachment-700x0 size-700x0 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 73%\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                  <\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"profile-pic\" href=\"https:\/\/thebristolcable.org\/author\/sean\" title=\"Sean Morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-byline-profile-pic\" itemprop=\"image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_1834-1-120x160.jpeg\" alt=\"Sean Morrison\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In early 2024, three teenage boys were fatally stabbed on Bristol\u2019s streets within 18 days.It was a grim start to the new year \u2013 one that thrust the issue of serious youth violence in the city further into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>    Get our latest stories &amp; essential Bristol news<br \/>sent to your inbox every Saturday morning  <\/p>\n<p>What followed was a very public response from Bristol\u2019s institutions \u2013 the police, the city council \u2013 promising they are doing all they can to stop further violence. We followed this response closely: it\u2019s something of a playbook \u2013 the crisis response to tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators of serious youth violence are often victims themselves, of failing systems of support that could have prevented needless loss of life. How can we stop it, if we don\u2019t address its root causes?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cable members get early access to all episodes. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not a member yet?<\/strong><br \/><strong>Join us and be amongst the first to hear it<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>      Independent. Investigative. Indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative journalism strengthens democracy \u2013 it\u2019s a necessity, not a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>The Cable is Bristol\u2019s independent, investigative newsroom. Owned and steered by more than <b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">2,600 members<\/b>, we produce award-winning journalism that digs deep into what\u2019s happening in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">We are on a mission to become sustainable, and to do that we need more members. <\/b><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Will you help us get there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--black js-join\" data-join=\"join-para-default\" href=\"https:\/\/thebristolcable.org\/membership\/?joinbutton=join-para-default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      Join the Cable today<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The perpetrators of serious youth violence are often victims themselves, of failing systems of support that if they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,8226,2266,393,4884,25781,21903,2452,12,3796,16,15,8520,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-583149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-documentary","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-journalism","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-podcast","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-violence","22":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115583685138453936","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}