Sunday - August 10, 2008

MUGGINGS BY CHILDREN DOUBLE AS MEAN STREETS GET MEANER

Steep rise in violent crime by children
The number of muggings committed by children has doubled, according to new crime figures.
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor
Last Updated: 2:16PM BST 09 Aug 2008

Government data showed that one in eight violent crimes, more than a quarter of a million, were committed by school-age offenders in the year to April.

Muggings committed by under-16s, including robberies and snatch thefts, doubled in one year to 55,000. Children also committed more than 70,000 offences of stranger violence, a 17 per cent increase on the previous year, according to the British Crime Survey.

In the survey, which is the Government’s own preferred measure of crime, victims are asked whether their attacker appeared to be “of school age or under”.

The figures come amid rising concern over the epidemic of knife crime commited by teenagers and after police warned yesterday of a huge rise in violence by women.

An average of 240 women a day are arrested for violent offences in England and Wales, often when drunk, and many were joining street gangs putting new pressure on resources, police chiefs said.

Although the crime figures for 2007/8 published last month showed an overall fall in crime, including violent crime, closer analysis has revealed the jump in youth violence. Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, who uncovered the true picture, said: “This is a shocking indictment of Labour’s failure. As well as inflicting misery on too many victims now, what kind of problems are we storing up for the future?”

Gordon Brown called on communities across Britain to rally against knife crime. The Prime Minister said it was “the biggest problem at the moment” in some cities.

But he said the Government alone could not tackle it and the community also had a role to play in changing the culture to make carrying knives unacceptable.

Speaking at the opening day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Prime Minister said: “Young people are thinking it’s acceptable, fashionable, necessary for them to protect themselves, to carry a knife.

“Just like we made guns unacceptable, we should make knives unacceptable.

(What kinda fool is this?  The latest two killings didn’t even involve knives. One was done with a screwdriver, and in another killing, some poor guy was beaten to death while out walking his dog.  NO. It isn’t the damn weapon(s) fool.  What needs to be made TOTALLY unacceptable and no excuses or lawyers tricks, are the slap on wrist oh they’re “youths” kind of thinking. What needs to be unacceptable is the lack of fear of the law among the worthless sub culture in total control of the streets.  What needs to be totally and absolutely UNACCEPTABLE is LIBERALISM in dealing with the kinds of out of control crime seen here over the years.)

“You need not just young people but parents and other people to say that knives in Britain, like guns, like bullying, like racism, all these things are unacceptable.

“There are certain boundaries in a decent society you don’t cross and these boundaries are cultural, because in America it is acceptable for many people to carry guns, it’s not in Britain. I think in Britain we’ve got to make it as unacceptable to carry knives.

“I think most decent people in our country would want to do that and I think what you will see over the next few months is this sort of campaign, which is led not just by Government but people in the country to say ‘get knives off our streets - it’s completely unacceptable’.”

The warning on violent women came from Paul McKeever, the chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, which represents rank-and-file officers.

He said: “Clearly there is an increase in the number of women who use violence in their everyday life and when they are out drinking on the streets around the country. It’s a new phenomenon and it does stretch the resources of the police service.”

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IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING JUST WHAT HAPPENED TO WIND ME UP ON A TOPIC I DIDN’T WANNA POST, IT’S BEEN BUILDING AS I READ THIS STUFF.
AND REALLY PPL, THERE ISN’T ANY WAY TO AVOID IT.  IMPOTENT ANGER I GUESS.  CAN YOU READ THIS CRAP AND NOT WONDER OR GET A BIT PO’d?

Now serial criminals could be let off with caution after caution
By James Slack

Under the Home Office guidance, anyone caught committing the same ‘trivial’ offence again can be let off with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist - providing two years have passed.

It means a thief could receive up to five cautions in ten years without ever having to face a court appearance.

THEN THERE’S THIS OF COURSE.  HEY ... THIS’LL STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEARTS OF THE GREMLINS. SURE IT WILL.

Go easier on inmates, prison told (and try using their first names)

By JAMES SLACK
A prison has been told by inspectors that it is being too hard on its inmates. Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons said convicts should be called by their first names.

http://tinyurl.com/59tubz

These last two stories both at the same link with several more to cause blood to boil.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/10/2008 at 09:26 AM   
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