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Boris J. youth violence strategy: ‘sabotaged’ and ‘a shambles’
Boris Johnson’s undertaking to get to grips with knife and youth crime was one of the most welcome of his pledges during the last mayoral campaign. Since moving in to City Hall he’s put time and energy into delivering. But what has really been achieved? Three members of an advisory group Boris set up to
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Police to Stop and Search Less?
The following letter was sent to the London Evening Standard on January 12th, 2012. At long last police in London have acknowledged what young people, communities and academic researchers have been saying for decades and particularly since the escalation of stop and search operations, supposedly in an attempt to tackle gun and knife crime. Stop
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Letter to Rt Hon Theresa May MP
The following letter was sent to Rt Hon Theresa May MP (by then, Home Secretary in David Cameron’s Cabinet), on July 4th, 2011. Dear Home Secretary, Call for a People’s Inquiry into Gun and Knife Killings in the African Community I write in relation to the recent upsurge of gun- and knife-enabled killings involving young
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Serious Youth Violence in the Capital
The following paper was submitted for consideration by the London Mayor’s ‘Time for Action’ and Community Safety Teams and the London Mayor’s Expert Advisory Group. Context: On 13 December 2010, the Mayor’s Expert Advisory Group (MEAG) received and discussed a paper: Serious Youth Violence in London – a brief retrospective on recent action that was
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Go after the gunrunners
There has been much soul-searching since Derrick Bird went on a gun rampage in Cumbria, murdering 12 people. Some commentators have warned, rightly, against the government rushing to legislate in the face of public horror over such incidents. The Cumbria shootings and the public and media reaction to it aptly place into focus the two societies that make up
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