My View: Knife Crime
It breaks my heart to see another family torn apart on the news by knife crime in Britain, as Britain is named the Knife Crime capital in the developing world.
Statistics vary, but both the worst-case and the other statistics are far too much.
“A worst case projection indicates that 60,000 young people (predominantly male) may be stabbed and injured in the UK each year”
That’s a shocking 164 a day.
however
“A rather more conservative estimate could be 22,000.”
That’s 60 a day.
The statistics vary, but there is one thing that doesn’t. Far too many people are injured or killed in Britain due to knife crime. It needs to stop. Knife Crime tears families apart, ends lives, young and old. It takes such a small amount of time to kill someone with a knife, but results in a lifetime of tragedy for the victims family. Even if the attack isn’t fatel, the result stays with the people affected.
Young people are carrying knives without being aware of the consequences. While watching Eastenders this week I watched the stabbing of Jay Brown, played by Jamie Borthwick I am happy that soaps such as Eastenders are bringing these Issues to life, and showing the consequences that carrying a knife can have. The stabbing also highlighted the problems of Gang Crime. Jay told his dad Jase Dyer, that he wasn’t going to use the knife he was carrying. Jase told him that if you carry a knife you will use it, or it will be used against you. Young people don’t seem to understand this concept. The BBC received almost 200 complaints about the episode, saying it was to violent for a 7:oo show, as children could of seen it. Surly if it is tackling knife and gang crime, surely it was beneficial for young people and children to of seen it?
As knife crime continues to rise in Britain, I just hope that this problem can be tackled and controlled to save people being hurt. It is not just teenagers and young people who get affected by this, as highlighted in Eastenders. People of all ages are at risk. It is common these-days to see grieving parents on the news while eating dinner, but there are also children grieving for their parents.
I hope we can see a fall in knife crime soon to save any more hurt and pain that is caused, and families which are torn apart.