Making more use of electronic monitoring (where appropriate) and lobbying for GPS technology to be used on offenders serving community sentences, or released on license following a knife related offence; Download table data for This strategy encompasses prevention, intervention and enforcement and will provide targeted responses to address the key challenges which our communities, young people and stakeholders have expressed to us regarding knife crime. As it happens, Huugo was swiftly eliminated from inquiries. This is also where the Deputy Mayor has individually met with Borough Leaders and Commanders of our most affected boroughs, community champions/leaders and charitable trusts/organisations on an ad-hoc basis to discuss the proposed strategy. Working with the Sentencing Council and National Police Chiefs Council to ensure appropriate sentences and sentence guidance for knife crime offences ; For if anything is damaging relations between the police and young people it is surely that rather than the searches themselves. Making adult offenders make amends to the communities they have harmed, working with communities and the London CRC to link tougher Community Payback sanctions for those convicted of knife possession with projects based in communities most affected by knife crime. Dr Rakib Ehsan on Twitter: "The English countryside is the least I just don't know why people have to do these things.". And I doubt if my black and Asian friends bother to think of me as a white, middle-class, fairly privileged male, indelibly tainted by the criminal legacy of post-imperial Britain. In London Paul McKenzie has spent all his life in Tottenham. "It's scaring people because things are happening so often, to the point where people are fearing for their lives every single day.". Is climate change killing Australian wine? By ethnicity over time to 2019 (CSV) Huugos mental scars should not take precedence over the horrific physical scars of knifing victims. You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator. I am of course thinking of such things as immigration and grooming gangs, which we are sometimes discouraged from talking about for the sake of political correctness.Linda MarriottLincoln, Join the debate email guardian.letters@theguardian.com, Read more Guardian letters click here to visit gu.com/letters, Do you have a photo youd like to share with Guardian readers? In addition, the Strategy aims to reduce the number of victims of knife crime with injury and increase support to them again, young BAME males are disproportionately represented in this cohort. The Gangs Debate. Working to ensure knife retailers and their couriers/delivery companies have access to training and guidance on the law on underage sales and target enforcement efforts against those who choose not to participate in this training; It is acknowledged that columnists like Afua Hirsch (Rod Liddle is wrong about black deaths, 16 January) write stuff that is a reflection of their views; what is harder to accept is when those views are informed only by intellectual or prejudicial positions. WebOne in six Britons from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities (17%) know a victim of knife crime closely or have been one themselves. The Mayor made a commitment in both his manifesto and in the Police and Crime Plan (published March 2017) to develop and deliver a tough knife crime strategy. Claim: In 2017, "Muslim immigrants" committed 11,000 out of 13,000 total knife crime offences in London, England. Just over half of these were aged under 25 years of age. Establishing an ongoing youth engagement and consultative mechanism, ensuring young people continue to be consulted and involved in the delivery of this Strategy; In 2013, London School of Economics professor Brian Bell conducted a major study of links between the concentration of various categories of immigrants in a region, and rates of crime in that area. New York Gov. 801 3rd St. S 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. The real Biden was executed for his crimes long ago along with Clinton. Supporting a trauma informed approach to our interventions when commissioning rehabilitation services. Knife crime in England and Wales for 2020 by ethnicity Knife crime in London, communal violence in cities like Leicester, and religious sectarianism across a string of post-industrial towns in Northern England, are far more pressing issues IMO. "Most violence is caused by people hitting, kicking, shoving or slapping someone, sometimes during a fight and often when theyre drunk.". ", This post was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Continuing and developing the work of the London Gang Exit Service to focus work on people involved in gangs who use weapons, including work to develop offenders skills to improve their employability and increase their access to job opportunities. Gun crime offences still remain below historic highs of March 2007 - when they were 31% higher than today - but the increase over the last three years is marked. Huugos mental scars should not be decried, but nor surely should they be allowed to take precedence over the horrific physical scars of the young people being killed or maimed in knife attacks. There were a total of 105 victims of homicide across London in 2016/17/. Extending this programme to key A&E departments in Boroughs that have high levels of knife crime to maximise the power and value of this teachable moment. Black Unrounded data was used to work out arrest rates and differences between ethnic groups. He admitted to seeing multiple friends injured from knife crime - some of them have died. Participants in the consultation included: The MPS, The Crown Prosecution Service, HM Prisons and Probation Service, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, the London Community Rehabilitation Company, London Councils, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, NHS England, the London Fire Brigade, Victim Support, London Heads of Community Safety, Trading Standards, the Youth Justice Board, London Head teachers, Violence Commission, Ofsted, the London Assembly, the London Stop and Search Community Network, Stopwatch, Safer Neighbourhood Boards, City Safe Havens, New Beginnings, Ganglines, Chance UK, Growing Against Violence, London Youth, the Godwin Lawson Foundation, Groundwork, St Matthews Project Brixton, Hackney Quest, Bankside Residents Forum, Football Beyond Borders, Coin Street Community Builders, the Crib, Barnardos, Leaders in Community, Rugby Portobello Trust, the Safer London Foundation, the Oasis Trust, Gang Conflict Mediation, Young Lambeth, Gascoyne and Morningside Youth Clubs, the Damilola Taylor Foundation, South Central Youth, Epic Learning, Edukit, Educational Excellence, Leap Confronting Conflict, Redthread, St. Giles Trust, Catch 22, LVSC, Box Up Crime, the SOLA Foundation, the Princes Trust, Hyde Housing, Spark 2 Life, Hoxton Hall, Misunderstood, Lewisham Council, Transport for London, Southwark Council, Camden Council, Shout Out UK, Kiyan Prince Foundation, Ofsted, Ben Kinsella Trust, ChildLine, Word 4 Weapons, Josh Hanson Trust, MAC UK, Parent Voice, Evolve Housing, Fight for Peace, The Flavasum Trust.