Knife culture

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Knife violence in Britain is not going away
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Violence in depressed areas is not going away
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Refusal to acknowledge the real issues of poverty and poor parenting along with poor education are not going away
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Minority usually black males = living in ghetto like estates = from single parent  families = with poor education = with no future  = leads to gang culture = leads to inevitable violence = leads to death
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These young people on the margins of society have a very serious problem of self-destructive violence.
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These poorer citizens aren't going anywhere
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There is no upward mobility for them.
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They are turning in on themselves.
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In a British society with no ideology these young people totally reject established laws and institutions.
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These young people want to consume in a free market which won't let them because they're too disadvantaged and structurally powerless
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Anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.has to be attractive to them
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Total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large
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And importantly including oneself
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Yet they have to accomplish being a man in a world which equates masculinity with having power over something
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Yet they have nothing
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Knife culture is rooted in poverty
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With disadvantaged teenagers excluded from mainstream education.
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Knife culture is the culture of young men who have limited opportunities and no basis for hope in relation to the mainstream economic system.
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They often live in areas where the streets are pock-marked with boarded-up shops.
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Looking to the future, the prognosis is bleak.
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The coalition government is reviewing knife crime strategies, just like the government before it
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Cameron's appointment of the EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, whose 16-year-old bother Ben was murdered two years ago, to head a task force assessing existing policies has led to mutterings of 'gesture politics'.
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Several knife prevention campaigns have already been stopped because of funding cuts.
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In the short term, broader trends point to a worsening problem.
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Britain's increasing population, particularly amongst minority groups, will increase street encounters of young men in poorer areas unless trends change.
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The majority of Britons do not live in these areas
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The majority of Britons have no experience of these gangs
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The majority of Britons see this on their tele
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In their newspapers
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And it increases fear in society
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It keeps stress levels high and there is seldom a day goes by where there is no report of murder stabbing or violence somewhere in Britain
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The media seem incapable of focusing on the 59 million Britons who have on any given day not murdered, stabbed or caused any other form of mayhem
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Why is this?
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Is it news that someone stabbed someone or is it endless repetition recycled over and over?
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Why are the media incapable of introducing helpful ideas into the situation, instead of banal soundbites?
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Or does it help sales and viewership to keep the fear level high?
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It does not take fifty years to figure out that poor educational policies, poor housing policies, poor prospects and zero training of parents to be parents are major issues
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Could  it be that a certain percentage of young people killing each other is useful?
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Could it be? 
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Just a thought
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It is certainly easier than addressing the true causes of these problems
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It is certainly quite useful to divert attention from other things
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Particularly the utter failure of British governments, all of them, to acknowledge that they themselves are the problem not the youth
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That decade after decade they have abused and misused their opportunities to face the most important issues facing Britain
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So the knife culture goes on
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One day maybe we can face the true reasons why
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Until then this is the world for many in this country
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Stabbings and knifings in Britain
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■ 322 fatal stabbings were recorded by police in 2007, the highest number since records began in 1977, up by almost 40% in a decade.
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■ The number of people prosecuted by magistrates for possessing knives soared from 4,489 in 1997 to 7,699 in 2006.
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■ The number of youths aged between 10 and 17 searched by police rose from 123,819 in 2007-08 to 185,489 in the 2008/9
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■ 5,239 stab victims were admitted to hospital in 2008, including 609 under-18s – down from 5,720 in 2007.
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■ In London, the number of stops and searches rocketed from 4,400 in 2003-04 to more than 80,000 in 2008-09.
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■ Since the Metropolitan police's Operation Blunt2 began in May 2008, there have been nearly 2,500 arrests, with 550 knives and 150 other weapons seized.