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Why so much crime? why is knife and gun crime escalating? who is to blame...Roy Jenkins abolished hanging and from that time and upto today, his liberial thinking and legacy haunts our streets. cheers Roy! we really are much more civilised today arn't we just. Pity many pay the price for liberilism...with their lifes.

You want to know one reason why so many people are getting stabbed?

90%+ of people found carrying knives are cautioned. CAUTIONED!

I was stabbed in 1995 and required emergency surgery to save my life, I think that it did happen then to it was just not as well documented, what I would say is that when I was stabbed I was half way through my final year at school and the stabbing meant that I basically had to leave school early, I was given no support at all by the state in my education and ended up with no qualifications, I still have none and feel very much let down. I hope that the support network that they have in place for the survivors of knife crime is somewhat better now than it was then.

Ken Livinsgtone is continuing to skip around some of the key aspects of the explosion of violence in london in the last three years- it is the culimination of allowing, even encouraging, children from war torn countries to settle in this country - it is this generation that has taken previous 'turf wars' or simple gang fights and taken it to another level - 'child soldiers', roaming in gangs, no respect for the law, killing without fear or concern- these 'skills' were brought to this country- when will we as a nation face up to this as the real problem. As unpalatable as it is, its alot to do with race-and in particular children from somalia, and unless we all, as a society allow the real facts to be talked about, then we'll never deal with the underlying issue and problem.

we really need to look at schooling, i feel the teachers have had there roles taken away and so have know no control over these children. i have a 14 year old and he already is playing up to the teachers and egging them on to cause confrontation. Knowing the teachers cannot do a thing about it... I am fed up of getting silly little letters from the school telling me to make sure i am bringing my child up correctly, because they are having trouble at school with him......
I agree bring back national service or get the boot camps in force Pease

Always an excellent program with Emily. When Secretary Paulson answered Emily's question about cutting fuel duty in UK by stating that fuel subsidies were not the answer, I am sure viewers got the point. If the US Treasury Secretary thinks that a reduction in tax on fuel amounts to a subsidy, which it is not, then we should worry. Of course New Labour will love this argument.

If the Police were allowed to do stop and searches as required then there would be a sharp decline in the knife and gun crime figures. Police have been too overcautious (through policital pressure) and wary of upsetting black communities. Unfortunately it is a fact of life that the majority of knife and gun crime is perpetrated by the black community and usually on itself. Obviously not all but the figures speak for themselves.

Police Officers have become increasingly frustrated at not being allowed to do their jobs properly and being undermined by the Government. The Government is systematical trying to undermine the Police Force by the introduction of for example PCSOs. All these people do is take the Police Uniforms out for walks. Take a look at the powers they have. They are as much use as chocolate fireguards. Their salaries are not too far away from that of a Police Officers but they have nothing like the responsibilities of Police Officers and they can walk away from anything they want without any come back whilst Police Officers have are duty bound to get involved.

Why not get rid of PCSOs and pay for fully qualified Police Officers who can do the job that the public want them to do.

The trouble is also that when people do get convicted of a crime that the sentence does not serve as a punishment or a deterrent to others as a lot of the people convicted have more security and benefits in their lifes being in a prison than they had in their lives already.

The role models in this country nowadays are the likes of footballers and celebrities who have found fame through reality shows.
We need to start convicting people like Amy Winehouse and sacking people like Joey Barton.

What a ridiculous Newsnight interview with a young ex-actress whose brother tragically was killed! Why would this young girl, presumably in mourning, have solutions to problems police and politicians have been struggling with for years? As the interview demonstrated she didn't.

Involving "celebs" in this issue is counter-productive, disrespectful and a derailing element in something this serious.

Why the problem has escalated to its current level is plain to see. I used to live in London's East End for some years about fifteen/twenty years ago, real cockney territory, the friendliest place in the world. I watched almost day by day how the area was being destroyed street by street, as people who had been removed from the underdeveloped world moved in.

The subsequent development has clearly demonstrated the old saying that whereas you can remove individuals from the underdeveloped world, you can't remove the underdeveloped world from people. So, we now have a large population of second generation immigrants who are culturally maladjusted, socially disassociated, can't read or write - let alone do basic maths - and who are unemployable. They, quite rightly, feel worthless.

Their system of reference consists of ultra-violent movies and computer games, so-called 'faith' schools reinforcing social isolation and amplifying this downward spiral. Their social frame of reference consists of peers in the same situation and parents on benefit, often alcoholic or drug addicts. It is not difficult to understand that such individuals seek relationships in a gang culture.

We are to blame. We allowed completely ill-advised immigration for a very long period of time; we did not realise the potential consequences in time, or even if we did, for ideological reasons we failed to draw the correct conclusions and act on them; we allowed, and still allow, socially divisive institutions such as faith schools; we hid under the ridiculous label of 'a multi-cultural society', which does not work and never will work as demonstrated by history throughout centuries all over the world.

This will take many years to go away, at least a generation, and unless we do the right things, notably forbid faith schools and stop immigration from outside Europe, it will not go away at all.

Don't get me wrong - there has always been human trash about but it has gotten a lot trashier over the past fifteen or twenty years.

Kudos to the guest booker - Ken was an excellent, informative guest with genuine insights. The report into knife crime was equally interesting, though I'm not sure about conflating the killing of a boy on the streets of north London and what appears to be the hand of a psychopath, or possibly organised crime or both, in the savage murders of those poor French students. Brooke Kinsella moved me with her bravery, eloquence and dignity and Emily got the tone just right. Superb programme tonight.

IVORY/SLAVERY FOR CHOCOLATE/CHADONNAY

thecookieducker (#1) Because 'we' have feminised our society (sex is not di-morphic) in the interest of naively applealing human rights concepts promulgated by 'social democrats'/'democractic socialists' (the SI). I fear most (by education/demographics) don't appreciate what this really entails and so those driving this over the past few deades in our liberal-democrcy don't worry about too much so long as they get their 'supply'.

Ivory coast 'migration' (some time back, and orchestrated by other Africans) was all about brawn over brain in the Americas.

Today, in our 'develped world', Service Sector trivia are 'Ipods' etc. It's al about word over brain, and who loses out to such an industry vs ...........the easy life?

Look at China's demographics vs those of the USA/EU. Then ask why we are suffering from a rising frequency of 'crimes against the person'.

This little known actress is appearing on every media channel and column at every hour of the day - when is she mourning ?

Re #8. mpjones.
First hand, truthful, hard-hitting post IMO. If we'd only seen the same honest approach in the news media in the last twenty years, things would never have reached their current tragic state. And people wouldn't be driven to the extremes of the debate, as they now are.

re#8 mpjones

Well said. An accurate observation of life in Britain as it now is. Add to that the fact that the less able breed at a far higher rate than the bright whites (who are reproducing at less than replacement level) and we have a recipe for total disaster.