Knife crime

We went to Little Burnley on Thursday to visit Townley park and afterwards went into the centre for sightseeing and brunch. Whilst there a Police Patrol Van was accosting the elderly and handing out small white boxes, so being of an inquisitive mind set we approached cautiously.

Good afternoon to the pair of you and we are running a program to protect our elderly populace from outdoor assault by issuing them with our mark four genesis personal attack alarm. He demonstrated the apparatus with gusto and the noise was beyond deafening, as to whether it would stop a smack head pinching coin of the realm remains a matter open to debate.

If I had of known about this new governmental change of tactic regarding knife possession I would have instead asked him for a brace of Ka-Bar Extreme Fighting Knifes with Kraton Handle Composition and for good measure a pair of Sog Seal Pup elites with cryogenically treated AUS8 steel. The AUS8's are par excellent for concealment and for close quarter combat fighting so effectively no more Mr Smackhead.

I would also have asked for a cold steel Tai Pan 3V if expense wasn't a factor because the CPM 3V is invaluable as a combat blade due to it's extreme resistance to breaking, shattering or chipping. Also it possesses excellent balance and very light handling capabilities which would be good for the wife's Arthritis.

 
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Let's look at stats. Most of the culprits or victims are ages 18 or under. I think it 'part' of the issue boils down to lack of parenting. Today's world everyone having shit loads of kids. But have zero knowledge on how to raise them. Parents should also be arrested.
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
Let's look at stats. Most of the culprits or victims are ages 18 or under. I think it 'part' of the issue boils down to lack of parenting. Today's world everyone having shit loads of kids. But have zero knowledge on how to raise them. Parents should also be arrested.
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Let's not forget schools with crap lazy teachers, who fail to engage the kids.
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
This also. Schools have to do more, and more social clubs for kids to participate in. After school reading, football, video games whatever.
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This is all good, but what it essentially does is make teachers responsible for shit parenting and transfer the parental workload of half-arsed parents onto teachers. Teachers already provide educational childcare for 7-8 hrs a day. The little darlings should be asleep for another 8 of the 24, so it's not really much to ask for some parental input into the remaining 8 hrs.
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
This is all good, but what it essentially does is make teachers responsible for shit parenting and transfer the parental workload of half-arsed parents onto teachers. Teachers already provide educational childcare for 7-8 hrs a day. The little darlings should be asleep for another 8 of the 24, so it's not really much to ask for some parental input into the remaining 8 hrs.
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And therein lies a great problem within society.

Teachers are always expected to pick up the shortfall when the government decided its time to cut a service or strip it back to its bare bones. It’s wrong and it’s not going to work as they’re already rammed with expectations throughout the teaching day.
 
So it seems a problem caused by absentee daddies, drugs and turf wars, misogynistic and violent culture...is the fault of da teachers, innit ...
 
Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese said:
This is all good, but what it essentially does is make teachers responsible for shit parenting and transfer the parental workload of half-arsed parents onto teachers. Teachers already provide educational childcare for 7-8 hrs a day. The little darlings should be asleep for another 8 of the 24, so it's not really much to ask for some parental input into the remaining 8 hrs.
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Teachers are not responsible for what happens at home of course.
But surely we all know that some teachers are lazy and just don't care.
A lot of teachers are great but tend to be in better schools, away from the low socio economic areas.
Once good teachers start to leave a school it can soon lose the plot. And then it's a vicious circle of failure.
I agree that parents have more influence on a child growing group but teachers play their part.
I went to a pretty crappy school in Manchester that had two or three very good teachers who engaged us in the subjects they taught, you kind of look forward to those classes.
We had some lousy ones though I remember the science teacher used to just throw out some textbooks and then bugger off for 40 minutes for a smoke or two. Only to reappear 10 minutes before the end of the lesson.
I am now not a scientist :)

Our English teacher inspired me to read books, he had an effect on my life I have to say.
 
Bill Walker said:
Teachers are not responsible for what happens at home of course.
But surely we all know that some teachers are lazy and just don't care.
A lot of teachers are great but tend to be in better schools, away from the low socio economic areas.
Once good teachers start to leave a school it can soon lose the plot. And then it's a vicious circle of failure.
I agree that parents have more influence on a child growing group but teachers play their part.
I went to a pretty crappy school in Manchester that had two or three very good teachers who engaged us in the subjects they taught, you kind of look forward to those classes.
We had some lousy ones though I remember the science teacher used to just throw out some textbooks and then bugger off for 40 minutes for a smoke or two. Only to reappear 10 minutes before the end of the lesson.
I am now not a scientist :)

Our English teacher inspired me to read books, he had an effect on my life I have to say.
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I’m assuming you’re talking from a period of time ago.

And it’s a rather large stretch to link poor teaching to knife crime.
 
Poverty and joining gangs as young teens shotting class A' s for the olders. No amount of social clubs or knife campaigns will put a stop to it until it stops being a lucrative business for the poor.
 
Two kids stabbed to death in less than 24hrs..15, 16 yrs... 3or4 young lads shot and stabbed to death already this week in London. How did it get this bad..
 
Just watched a depressing video about the NHS hospitals in Leeds and the amount of knife/machete crime that's happening. It really is getting out of hand and the the Gov and courts need to get to grips with this. Feel for those front line hospital staff, I wouldn't blame them if they all just quit and move to somewhere quiet.
New prisons and long sentences might help and more cops.
There has to be a strong deterrent against carrying a knife or machete.
What is the Govmt. doing about this ?
 
Bill Walker said:
Just watched a depressing video about the NHS hospitals in Leeds and the amount of knife/machete crime that's happening. It really is getting out of hand and the the Gov and courts need to get to grips with this. Feel for those front line hospital staff, I wouldn't blame them if they all just quit and move to somewhere quiet.
New prisons and long sentences might help and more cops.
There has to be a strong deterrent against carrying a knife or machete.
What is the Govmt. doing about this ?
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I live in a well to do place in Leeds where a 15 year old was stabbed to death in broad daylight whilst waiting to pick up his little brother outside a primary school in November.
Of course, the kid who did it has pleaded not guilty.
Goes to trial in April
 
Stelea said:
I live in a well to do place in Leeds where a 15 year old was stabbed to death in broad daylight whilst waiting to pick up his little brother outside a primary school in November.
Of course, the kid who did it has pleaded not guilty.
Goes to trial in April
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Pleading not guilty is nothing new. There’s a variety of reasons why they do so. Dale Cregan through to Lucy Letby did.
 
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