And The Number's Only Going To Go Up Thanks To Demographic Change

This one was a little too close to home for me, it's a street I cycled down as a child on my way to a library (now sadly closed) and drove down many more times, a sleepy little backwater but having the unfortunate location of backing onto a park and so now the hunting grounds of the urban black youth:

Two teenagers were taken to hospital with “life-threatening” injuries after stabbings recorded minutes apart in east London. Police are treating the stabbings in Dagenham as linked as investigating officers appealed to the public for more information. 

A man aged 19 and a 17-year-old boy were taken to hospital after being found on Friday evening at two separate locations just streets apart. They were also both arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive weapon.

Interesting to see the police arresting both for a change, instead of arbitrarily declaring one a ‘victim’ deserving of sympathy. 

The borough with the worst knife crime rate in the past year was Newham, with 824 offences logged. Southwark and Lambeth ranked second and third on the list, with 697 and 691 knife related offences recorded respectively. 

Barking and Dagenham, the borough where the two people arrested were found injured, had 485 total knife offences last year. 

Why..?. Simple - it’s been subjected to population moment over the last 10 years from…Newham, Southwark and Lambeth mostly. Do you think they are safer as a result?