Not seen the evidence about the race element? Do you not read the news reports or statistics? Unless we talk about it, how can we find solutions?

Again, you're not interesting in finding out about the cultural issues and ways to solve this awful problem. But instead, are using it as a stick to beat the Tories with over cutbacks because you are a radical leftist who thinks chucking tax payers' money at everything sorts it out. It doesn't. It's much more nuanced.

Knives. Every supermarket sells cooks knives.
I recently had to take a neighbour to 'an event', when she was stuck for transport. I had just come back from walking the dogs and doing some foraging in the woods.
When we got to the venue, people were being searched, and I forgot I had a pen-knife on me. (they let me into the event, as I'm in my 50's ,...but they took the knife)
If I were in London, I probably would have been arrested/cautioned.
Out here in the sticks a lot of workers carry utility knives, and a lot of people have (Licenced)firearms.

It would seem to be a cultural shift, particularly in metropolitan areas.
Trinidad isn't looking too good ATM
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"The year 2018 end­ed with 516 mur­ders, mak­ing it the sec­ond dead­liest year in the his­to­ry of T&T.

The year 2008 record­ed the high­est mur­der rate with 550 homi­cides be­ing com­mit­ted.

Of the 516 mur­ders in 2018, 430 of them re­main un­solved. These sta­tis­tics were dis­closed by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) Crime and Prob­lem Analy­sis (CA­PA) Branch.

For the pe­ri­od Jan­u­ary 1 to De­cem­ber 27, 2018, 13 spous­es (male and fe­male) were killed in do­mes­tic vi­o­lence-re­lat­ed mat­ters.

There were 13 chil­dren killed, six of which were clas­si­fied as gang-re­lat­ed; three were do­mes­tic-vi­o­lence re­lat­ed; one was drug-re­lat­ed; one child was killed dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion; two re­main un­clas­si­fied.

Forty-sev­en fe­males were killed in 2018—this in­clud­ed three girls, 40 women, and four oth­ers whose ages are un­known.

With re­spect to law en­force­ment per­son­nel, six of them were killed—two po­lice of­fi­cers, one sol­dier, and three prison of­fi­cers.

Mean­while, po­lice said there were 179 gang-re­lat­ed mur­ders."

So gang violence seems to be the crux in other countries, under differing political systems.

Who knows how to improve things ?

I disengage, I turn the page.

I have already said that the police will never be content with numbers and funding.
When have you ever heard a police commissioner say that he is happy?

Naive or just disingenuous?

You are only peddling this garbage for political reasons.
You know full well why crime has soared but you don't have the guts to admit that your political creed got it so so wrong.
The Left have actually helped the ruling class ruin your former country.

Okay, since you know more about policing than the commissioner of police please explain how less how less police decreases crime in light of the fact the opposite is happening?

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

A BBC journalist knows more about the police than the commisioner?

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

I wouldn't trust either of them.

I agree we need more Police on the streets. It's about the only thing we agree on.

You can't just keep saying this will solve the problem in itself though. People have to believe that carrying a knife and stabbing each other is not an acceptable way to behave in a disagreement.