Knife crime: 1,000 young victims hospitalised last year

[Northerner]

More than 1,000 10 to 19-year-olds were admitted to hospital with knife wounds in 2017/18.

The figure, from NHS England, reveal a 54% rise in the number of children and teenagers treated for injuries from knives over five years.

It comes as a leading consultant warns that she is seeing increasing numbers of girls involved in knife crime.

Doctors also said that injuries were becoming more severe and victims getting younger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47159808

In my youth people just used to get into fights, but usually walk away with a split lip and maybe bloody nose, but nothing like this (although, of course, you didn't get to hear of things on the news like you do today). So shocking and unnecessary, and from all accounts, often cowardly

 

[mikeyB]

Knife crime and deaths has plummeted in Scotland over the last 30 years. There have been no deaths so far this year. The way they did it was by treating it as a public health issue, and concentrating on the social and family issues. Costs money and effort, and if you tried this in, say, London, you have the political fight against the idea that punshment is the answer. You see that in the report- ASBO style orders, restriction of social media. It’s the wrong way to do it. You just don’t read about knife crime in the Glasgow press. It’s rare.

In England some city mayors, including London, are looking to Glasgow to see how it’s done. It won’t happen in London, or England because there isn’t the will or the money, and there is the complication of race, which puts the Daily Mail in fits. That’s not a problem, you get local people to sort themselves and their kids.

Of course, Glasgow nicked the idea from New York.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Knife crime and deaths has plummeted in Scotland over the last 30 years. There have been no deaths so far this year. The way they did it was by treating it as a public health issue, and concentrating on the social and family issues. Costs money and effort, and if you tried this in, say, London, you have the political fight against the idea that punshment is the answer. You see that in the report- ASBO style orders, restriction of social media. It’s the wrong way to do it. You just don’t read about knife crime in the Glasgow press. It’s rare.

In England some city mayors, including London, are looking to Glasgow to see how it’s done. It won’t happen in London, or England because there isn’t the will or the money, and there is the complication of race, which puts the Daily Mail in fits. That’s not a problem, you get local people to sort themselves and their kids.

Of course, Glasgow nicked the idea from New York.

Was just talking about this kind of stuff today. I spent most of the 90's in NYC and had absolutely zero problems with any violence or thievery and never saw anything at all untoward. Worst experience was being annoyed by a crack addict on Avenue B for 4 minutes.

Then I end up back in dear old Adelaide & with bashings and knifings on the city streets, I get my car stolen twice & actually get home-invaded by a machete-wielding junky waking me up at 2am waving his machete in my face. He was only about 5 foot 3 but it was a big machete! Annoyingly, the scar he left on the back of my hand is almost invisible ...