links for 2008-05-30

Blog: Education is key to tackling knife crime
It’s been widely reported that most of those carrying weapons today are doing it out of fear, not intent. It is bullying in its most extreme form.

Government launches hard-hitting campaign designed at discouraging young people from carrying knives
Graphic images that form part of a fictional medical lecture over [...]

Video of the day

Today’s video -created by you out there – is a two parter.
Stemming from a street robbery, the drama in dramatic fashion.
As Shahtime explains on the film’s YouTube host page: ‘Starring Ashrak, Juned & Ana, 2 thugs try jacking a teen for a damn phone, teen fights back and gets away.’
Written by Shahed, directed by Javed.
Part [...]

Boy, 16, in custody over Camden shooting

ITN reports that police are questioning a 16-year-old boy suspected of murdering Sharmaake Hassan, 17, who was shot in the head in Camden on Saturday.
Hassan, the 15th teenager to die as a result of knife and gun crime in London this year, died in hospital on Wednesday. Believed to have been a member of [...]

links for 2008-05-29

A new breed of leaders can tackle knife culture
The MTV Base generation, with their pimp-roll swaggers and their perverted notions of masculinity and faux respect, urgently need taking to task.
(tags: black culture, knife crime, gun middle class)

New Statesman – Boris’s scary arches
Barely a month into his new job as Mayor of London, and Boris Johnson [...]

Another day, another death

Sharmaake Hassan, 17, was found in Gilbeys Yard, Camden, last Saturday.
He’d been shot in the head.
After being taken to hospital suffering severe injuries, he died yesterday.
So far, police have arrested no-one over the incident.
Since the beginning of the year, 15 teenagers have died in London as a result of similar attacks.
How many more?

New knife crime campaign

more about “Knife crime campaign launched“, posted with vodpod
The goverment has launched a new campaign against knife crime today. The £3 million budget makes the point that if you carry a knife, you’re more likely to have it used against you in a fight.
The campaign pulls few punches in showing the effects of stabbing. [...]

links for 2008-05-28

Home-grown crime -Times Online
Comment: “This will send a message says the policeman,after the trial, on the court steps. Oh no it wont.The part of our society that produces this underclass do not read newspapers or watch TV news (tags: knife crime, violent crime statistics, criminal sentencing)

Knife crime: Top cop Sir Ian Blair says [...]

Have you carried a knife?

That’s the question that Haroon Siddique is asking in the Guardian News Blog today.
We often hear that the “fear of crime” is increasing as the rate of crime is decreasing. Has an age-old problem been exaggerated by media headlines or is this a frightening new development that makes you fear for your safety? Have you [...]

New support for victims of crime

It’s hard to believe 15 years have passed since Stephen Lawrence died following an attack by a group of white boys in Eltham, south-east London.
Stephen’s friend Duwayne Brooks was there, and, though much controversy has shrouded Stephen’s death ever since, Duwayne’s keen to put his experience to positive use, setting up the Brooks Foundation for [...]

‘Just walk away’

A young film-maker hopes his new movie will help fight the street crime war – by encouraging people to simply walk away.
ITN reports that Noel Clarke, writer/director/star of Adulthood (the sequel to 2006’s street culture pic Kidulthood, in which he played a knife-wielding schoolboy) is getting ready for his film’s release. But in light [...]