Reducing violent crime

What we need is more police and more funding for them. This then needs to be backed up with proper sentencing at court as the majority of criminals know that they are unlikely to get caught and a decent sentence. Police are massively under staffed and nothing will work until we have more police. This is just another political knee jerk by the mayor to try and save face

Just another bit of publicity to make the Mayor look as though he is doing something. In fact he has achieved little during his tenure, except an undercurrent to strangle London. Bad transport, fewer police, no housing policy, it goes on and on. Root causes have to be addressed with all the problems of our capital and not just patching.

Mr Khan has messed up spent all our money on cycle highways and cross rail so we can travel quicker less people are using these unfit for purpose services so he’s not recouping a fraction of the cost hence slashing services that help the public , we have to pay without a choice this huge cost of gla has to be abolished that will give millions back to public services

What another waste of taxpayers money. What are they going to do about dealing with poverty - give them more money, ill health - open mental health units which were all closed and now are supermarkets, lack of opportunity - get the people jobs. How about you invest the money in putting police officer back on the streets to deter crime and let the courts deal with the poverty, ill health and lack of opportunity. If there were more police on the streets there would be less OPPORTUNITIES to commit crimes. You wouldn’t need your 1984 doublespeak VIOLENCE REDUCTION UNIT or your VIOLENT CRIME  TASKFORCE. My father was a policeman walking a beat on an estate, he knew most of the trouble makers by name and they knew him. He didn’t stop all the crime on the estate but he help reduce it just by being there. That is what we need, no specialist TASKFORCE, plain and simple more bodies on the streets with real powers and a court of law that backs up the policing in the streets. 

There's more money in failure, jobs for judges, lawyers, police etc, the powers are not really serious about fixing it. I read out loud at 38 and my aggression disappeared. (reading out loud was banned or severely reduced in school) this happened during the video age. Millions of parents were dumbed down but it was hushed up so nobody knew. Children watch too much tv, on computer games, they don't practice talking enough and the better you are at talking the easier it is to learn to read. Bad behaviour in school is a job for learning support assistant. Primary school thinks discipline is shouting, screaming, humiliating and belittling, it's not it's bullying. You could say they taught bullying. I helped in a primary school for two years so I've witnessed it. When I played, laughed, smiled, joked and built up the relationship i found my frown was more effective. I had the joy in bucket loads. If only I had known all this when I was a parent.

i want to say sorry to my boys for I was a bad parent.......regards George              

Londoners, families and communities pay taxes to City Hall on the basis that, in return, they will receive a police service.  If the Mayor has the funding to set up a new taskforce to prevent violent crime, why does he need to take money away from the police in the first place?  Just give the police the funding they need to do their job.  That's the simplest and most effective way to reduce violent crime.

Considering the Mayor grew up on a council estate in South London, I'm surprised he gives so little priority to funding day-to-day policing.  What does he expect the doctor to do? 

"Hello doctor.  I'm a violent criminal."

"So sorry to hear that.  Here's a prescription for going straight."

Welcome to law and order under Sadiq Khan!

Who staffs this Taskforce?  Isn´t it just an excuse for the police to continue to underperform?  Why is no-one addressing the fact that the police just don´t investigate most crimes in London.  And not just due to under-staffing, they were not investigating burglaries etc. long before the current staff cuts.