Stats…

– Every week in 2007, a teenager was murdered on Britain’s streets

– 27 out of the 52 teenagers who died last year were murdered in London

– In a Channel 4 Dispatches survey of 100 male youths aged between 11 and 18 in two South London boroughs in January 2008:

33 claimed to be current or former gang members and/or had committed serious violence against other youths
48 claimed to have suffered serious violence (only 9 reported this to the police)
25 had been threatened with a knife
7 had been threatened with a gun
18 had been hit with a hard or a blunt object
14 had been cut or stabbed with a sharp object
6 had been shot at

– In a similar survey of 100 male youths in parts of Glasgow:

51 admitted to a violent lifestyle
64 had suffered serious violence at the hands of another youth (only 10 reported this to the police)
27 had been threatened with a knife
2 had been threatened with a gun
43 had been hit with a hard or a blunt object
4 had been cut or stabbed with a sharp object
3 had been shot at

Download the full survey here (PDF)

69 teenagers are victims of knife crime every week in London and nearly half of all murders are carried out with a knife.

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