These days, knife crimes have been going on in London and around. The Home Office figure shows that one person is the victim of knife crime every four minutes. It is more common among teenagers. I suspect it is due to a couple of major predisposing factors.
The first is that those age group has special privilege by law. Even they commit a serious crime, the softer punishment is applied. Police might say "kids are kids". But they do not seem to care about the fact that those kids have got enough power to kill someone else.
The second would be the attitude of youngsters toward others. The availability of knives is not new. Even kitchen knife can be used as a fatal weapon. Why is the incidence of knife crime growing up rapidly these days? The authorities are just making a big plan to crack down carrying knife. Do you think this approach alone can sort out the problem?
We can see more police and community officers have been deployed on the streets. Will this help building a better and safer London? For me, police may have some deterrent effects. Not more than that.
I suspect that the basic phenomenon would be the devil in some teenager's bodies. So long as it exists, they will continue to kill by using alternative weapons or methods.
The question is how to clean up the devil staying inside the body. With the aid of God? By upgrading the social environment? By educating them? By making more friendly environment? By doing cultural revolution? This would be a matter of extensive debates. For an evidence based law making practice, I wonder how many more people needs to make ultimate sacrifice.
Lately, a teenager has been killed again on the street in London.
The boy, named locally as 18-year-old Frederick Moody, became the 21st teenager to die violently in the capital this year.
He was found with stab wounds to the stomach in Lambeth at around 7pm on Thursday and died before arriving at hospital.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested at his home in Brixton Friday morning and is being held in police custody. More on:
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