And now a young girl 14 has been slashed across the face life changing injurys

I’m with you in this one. If we had ‘zero tolerance’ then 14 year olds driving around with no licence or insurance would be cleared off the streets, therefore this kind of escalation wouldn’t happen.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

So are suicide bombers in Kabul
Ahh love em

All the time we deny the problem then the problem gets worse.
The Black youth of this county have a massive problem with crime but let's not forget that drug crime is not all about Black people. The youth often do the running for others further up the food chain and those guys are by no means always Black. Organised crime is a multi cultural business.
None the less, when someone is shot, stabbed or robbed in the street, more often than not, it is usually someone Black doing it.

Time to be more honest and save some lives maybe?
These kids don't stand a chance all the time we bury the issue.
There has been a massive breakdown of parental responsibility and control over children who are more influenced by the local criminals and irresponsible popular culture than home.

Meanwhile the media are peddling this weeks identity politics bingo.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (10 Jan 2019 6.16pm)

- work for dole
- greater sanctions for absentee or useless parents.
- reduced benefits for young women choosing to get pregnant with either an absentee partner or with an unemployed loser. Stop giving them a free council flat, put them into dormitory accommodation.

greater tax breaks for working people to have kids. Greater housing help for the working poor.

-curfews for urban teenagers after 6pm.
- tougher penalties for carrying a knife, being in a gang, owning a pitbull.
- better control over the border
- keep workers living away from scroungers....

build a giant ghetto on the Shetlands and put all the scroungers there. No free cash, food stamps only. Reduced benefits the longer you are unemployed until the State is giving you 'bread and water' while you live in a tent.

basically Margaret Thatcher's tough love.

Blair/Brown have ruined it for everybody by promoting an entitlements culture.

The longterm unemployed should not have flatscreen HD tellies, cars, designer clothes and tons of leisure-time to pursue their sex life on a tuesday morning while the taxpayer is busting a gut in the office.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (10 Jan 2019 7.23pm)

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

There will be people who study and deal with crime who have educated opinions on this problem but as a concerned citizen, I would say that a key objective of society is to protect people from harm. Indirectly with counter measure programs to tackle anti social and criminal behaviour and more directly through prosecutions.

It seems that for many, the soft approach is usseless and they just need to be incarcerated for very long periods to keep them off the streets.
The tax payer will foot the bill but that is better than being afraid to walk the streets.

Violent crime must be met with frighteningly long sentences.