http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4370601.stm Pair jailed after fatal shop raid http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/4371059.stm Calls for tougher laws on knives http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/4369835.stm 'Sword' man shot dead by police http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/4371071.stm I find myself with a sudden interest in violent crime in the UK...for some reason I was under that assumption there was none there
Shots fired during UK rap concert
by Xena 57 Replies latest social current
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confusedjw
Undoubtedly SUV related
I think the Brits should get off their lazy, fat, dumb asses and do something about it!
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purplesofa
Undoubtedly SUV related
you crack my up!
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kwintestal
Makes me glad I live in Canada. Nothing like that happens here. You know we just spent over $1 billion on a federal gun registry program! Our gun control laws are great, except for the smuggling in from the US.
Kwin
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Angharad
for some reason I was under that assumption there was none there
I would like to see where anyone has said there is no violent crime in the UK - how about a link Xena?
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Xena
I would like to see where anyone has said there is no violent crime in the UK - how about a link Xena?
link Ang? there is no link. did I say anyone specifically had said that? non my dear....I said I was under the ASSUMPTION.....apparently a wrong one at that, eh?
Just consider me a concerned neighbor
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Crumpet
Xena
Do you think that Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse, The Bill, Miss Marple, Cracker, Wire in the Blood (am assuming some might have been imported to the States tv stations) are all fiction? Goodness not at all! See news clips and summaries below.
A Week on Crumpet's Doorstep:
There is loads of violent crime here - Brixton Academy where the shots were fired is in Brixton - there were the Brixton riots there a few years back. You will be offered class A drugs within minutes of getting off the train in Brixton and with drugs rife so is crime and prostitution.
Last week a Peter Bryan was charged after he was released from pyschiatric care (he had killed some years before but someone decided he was too expensive to continue receiving mental care). He then murdered his friend and then cooked his brains and ate them. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=15296597&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=cannibal-ate-brain-of-victim-fried-in-butter-name_page.html
Also last week 20 minutes from where I live a 37 year old man calmly partially decapitated a 60 something year old man outside his very expensive London home during the school run with an axe. http://hamhighbroadway.london24.net/broadway/news/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=Newsbroadway&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsbroadway&itemid=WeED18%20Mar%202005%2014%3A15%3A07%3A673
All in the space of one week and a few miles from where I live. There is no shortage of violent crime on the streets of London believe me. Gun crime is on the rise and racial crime very high.
An 11 year old boy was put away last week for stabbing a 27 year old pizza worker outside the pizza shop because he was told that the £1 pizza offer he wanted to take advantage of had ended an hour ago. The pizza guy died.
(I don't think I'll be getting that job with the british tourist board after all)!
crumpet
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Doubtfully Yours
That horrible noisy and hostile style of music fuels violence no matter where it's played.
DY
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Englishman
Violent crime is on the increase, although gun crime is still comparitively rare. However, it is much higher than it used to be.
Englishman.
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Xena
Yikes Crumpet! I live in a relatively crime free area (knock wood) and I suppose most of the time I tend to focus on my own sphere of activity. If I found crime to be escalating here I would try and figure out what I could do about it personally...even if the option was perhaps moving, as I have a small child and need to consider her safety as well as my own.
Crime appears to be on the increase everywere...or do you suppose it justs seems that way due to media coverage?