Reducing violent crime

I think the only reason that youths decide to participate in knife crime etc. The first trigger is usually money. Its always been a recurring theme in most of the stories I've heard. And I feel like there needs to be some kind of job that youngsters can do to prevent them to going into selling drugs etc. Even to find jobs for youths it's extremely difficult and I think something must be done to make it easier for them to get jobs and this could help prevent many of them leading to the wrong path.

I think that including people with mental ill health is definetely something that needs to be worked on, however these people including myself, especially those who have received violent crime towards themselves, need to be listened to with respect and justice needs to be done to the perpetrators, both of what leads up to the violent crime, and the perpetratros of the violent crime itself. I personally worked very hard to get where i am in life, and it doesnt help when other people from english religious organisations still carry on trying to ruin my life, because i once thought that these places were full of good people. 

Also id like to point out that many people are born into fortune, which i myself am trying to also be in respectful earnt money in what i want to do in life (Djing/Acting/{Politics), but they dont seem to realise that with money comes responsibilty, and if they abuse that responsibilty then they are in my opinion, breaking the law like thugs. 

So if people arnt happy about my cause to this world and trying to bring a smile to peoples faces, i do think they should be tought that what they are doing is not ok.

But hey, who am I to say anything.

One of the quick wins that can be put in place is improving the technology available to the emergency services and the public, enabling better management of incident scenes and keeping the public safe from inadvertent harm. Deploying this tech will also be a concrete indication that London is serious about keeping both it's citizens and visitors safe. Check out the safe-citizens.com website - I cannot post a link, but its really easy to find.

The best gang recruiting area is children who have been excluded from school. There are few resources for these kids to protect them being pulled into criminal activity and gangs. This problem has been building for years... But it's only now after so many have died and been incarcerated we're talking about the possible solutions.

Personally I'd be happy for police to  have the ability to stop and search for knives and weapons. Stationary metal detectors need to be installed at 'hotspots' and hand held ones used on the streets. 

Ban the sale of knives on the Internet. Can't believe that still has not happened.   

As there are often just single parent households with the parent a teenager with no support network, one step towards reducing children going into gangs and crime is to a) have better sex education to stop early pregnancy, b) teaching kids compassion from toddler age. Once they are in school it may already be too late. Of course - more police, government support for those in poverty or people working and having to rely on food banks - all this is really shameful. The government has a lot to answer for, but children having children is not great either. 

This is good news, however, parents must make their children responsible citizens who can lead productive lives.  This must be supported by the local authorities opening youth clubs and libraries where disadvantaged children can spend their spare time free of charge and in safety. 

Trust in authority is at an all-time low but we must all ask ourselves are we really doing all we can to make our children have respect for the police and local government, and can the same be said by the police and authorities?  Do we respect for the place that we live.  Not everything can be done by others.  

The time has come for zero tolerance.

It is a long running joke that the police have their hands tied because of the “softly, softly” approach to crime and punishment in this country. I love that we are a tolerant society. But everyone knows that this tolerance is being abused - none more so than the abusers themselves. Those individuals and gangs with a hateful, destructive agenda are clued up to the rules and know that the police can't touch them given certain circumstances.

It’s time for change.

Give the police the power to enforce the rule of law with less restrictions. Remove the red tape. Police should absolutely be accountable but they must be empowered - especially at a time when budgets are below what is needed. Given that there is less money and therefore less police, at least then give them the resources and means to act effectively.

The people “upstairs” will argue that zero tolerance is blunt instrument and innocents may be caught up in any action taken. This is true but UK police forces have always acted on reliable intelligence to reduce such risks. Dealing with knife users and carriers swiftly and harshly will make those that would think twice.

I am not a hardliner and I do want us to become a draconian state. But I do not want to live in fear and I do not want any more blood on our streets. I believe investing in our youth and creating opportunities for them is the long term solution to this problem. However, until such time that government can see the wisdom in this, our short term goal must be to come down hard on crime.

Everyone wants to know, is it race? Is it poverty?

Turns out it could be neither:

http://marripedia.org/effects_of_family_structure_on_crime

Warning: Contains scientific research that you have to read through and think about for yourself

Why is it the responsibility of parents families to reduceCrim?. Who are the ones gentrifying green spaces, allocating faith groups and churches into the community centres hmmm? They is a conscious bias of labour councils duplicating the actions of Colonisers by enabling hipsters , of a specific demography to aquire land and all the funding in particular localities.

These localities have high poverty indinces, moreover the hipsters are able to build empires for self and friends on the lucrative funding aquired. Its no accident that Lambeth and Southwark have JP Morgan Funded cic  who have no expertise in running businesess. Yet they are enabled to aquire high salaries manage /oppress local residents then,... have the audacity to have local residents to volunteer for them ( slavery) . The political parties are one and the same .People need to unify over a number of issues and resisit the smnowballing exploitation. The same at the mayors office , all graduates getting their MA paid for by money aquired from the EU companies set up for them.Although their parents can afford this they are given a free ride. Not forgetting no work is being done.For all the finance going out what is actually working . Crime doubled, unemployment blah blah bla. Spend 2 hours in city hall and what does one observe .A specific demograh being enriched with city hall resources.

More police presence on the streets

tougher penalties for attacking the Police i.e. minimum 5 years in prison

More police on the streets

More police on the streets

This would allow the police to get involved in community projects as they used to do, i.e. youth clubs etc.  Now they are just too pressurised.

Why doesn't Khan focus on reducing violence in London, instead of making silly tit-for-tat comments to further his political career. You're no better than Trump. Time to get a mayor who cares about London.

I have friends who live all over London including Belgravia, I can tell you that crime there is seriously prevalent , stabbings, motor bike raids, watch stealing.. It is not just us paupers who are being ignored! My son was mugged yesterday in broad daylight, they stole their money and then threatened  to... and that was on Baker Street... One of his friends has been mugged 7 times, they don’t tell anyone for fear of being on lock down. Also they don’t believe in the system. My son was telling me good kids are now ‘tooling up’, as an adult we know this attitude is catastrophic, but they are just kids! They don’t believe there is help, they are scared and already feel let down. They don’t believe in politicians, police, authority, nothing. With such a disillusioned attitude, it is no surprise they are turning to crime.

I love London, born and bread, and proud of our multicultural, fun, hugely diverse city, but I am thinking it might be better to leave. All this money spent on hideously ugly buildings might be better spent on trying to avoid a lawless society, where these buildings will be useless. We need to educate families that this isn’t acceptable, and help those that are struggling. Parental responsibility is a huge factor. Yes we need more police on the streets, but we also need to quell the storm before it erupts. I want freedom and joy for both me and my kids, not lock down and fear! I will get involved and help tackle this anyway we can.. If the system lets us down, let’s stop moaning and getting angry, let’s become the system...? I have just been told my writing contained bad language, I was quoting what the muggers said!!! Really, is this what we have become.. Pathetic!!!

Why is there a delay with the comments? Censorship?.. We want more police! Or we may just change the rules!!

Mayor of London, seek and you shall find.

How difficult is it to meet with the Mayor and senior officials of the Metropolitan Police "in person" to present "ground-breaking" research on violent crime Reduction. I am registered on Talk London. You have my details, so please feel free to drop me a line.

Having read a dozen or so of the previous comments at random, find most of them make sense, however all of the proposed solutions would take many years to achieve a substantial reduction in the murder rate, whereas a reversal of the huge cuts in police numbers (on the streets, not at desks) would have a very much faster effect. One doesn't have to be a genius to reach this conclusion, the police now have to deal with crimes that barely existed or didn't exist at all years ago, e.g religious terrorism, computer crime, stalking etc.

It's stating the bleeding obvious that more crime, thousands fewer policemen, mass police station closures, is not a recipe for success.One has to wonder if governement really cares one way or the other, they seem happy to fiddle while Rome burns, many people wouldn't even bother to report car crime, break ins, even assaults as they know it would be waste of time, all the police would do is provide a crime number.

And if none of the above isn't depressing enough, add some of the ludicrous sentences handed down by the courts.