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UPF Youth: Knife and Gun Crime
Policemen
sharing: The gun crime was reduced in UK
thanks to the cameras introduced after
2006. That's why the numbers show how this type of crime went down in the following years. So now we mostly
talk of knife crime.
Police
tried to influence the gungs by providing support if they cooperate, but
use suppressing measures if they don't.
But it didn't work, because they didn't trust
the police.
In
addition, if the problems were regarded as racial, made it also difficult to
bring resolution. Yet, having a policemen in each school, where
kids could see him as a human being and
talk to, proved very helpful.
Young
people are tempted to go in gangs because of financial incentives. We try to help them, so they don't need to go into
that temptation.
Comment:
If social structure is top-down, all the money for solution go to the top level. But the most important is the moral
education when kids are young. If they
learn to live in the vicious circle where they deal with each other in a
bad manner, the violence increases. But
if they learn to live doing good for each other, that increases others doing good for them. So
which of this two circles they want to
live in?
Action:
Approaching
10 thousand signatures on our petition on Knife and gun crime. Once we reach it, the government will have
to react.
More
funding for youth services, rather than empower control.
Barriers:
Brocken
families, poverty, lack of environment of trust, love and support, pushing them to find false self esteem in gungs. The
moral grounds of family, education and
religion are lost. Poverty brings parents to have 2 jobs. Children left
with wrong influence, spending too much
time playing violent games, while having less
meaningful social relationships.
Lack of
education. Lack of purpose. Poverty - search of fast money, that jobs do not provide.
Presenter
women:
What can
we do as community?
Women
presenter 2: She put knife crime as a disease, where symptoms were present
before the problem to occurred. They were visible in the family, the community
and the economic structure.
The areas
of high and low knife crime show the factors forming this problem. Love and
belonging… "We cannot self actualize".
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