London murder rate overtakes New York's

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Was shocked to see this on the BBC news website, I know there are stabbing but didn't realise it was this bad.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43610936

I've just read that the 16 year old boy has now also died. Too many young lives are being wasted.

Such a pity and waste of life, these teenagers had the rest of their lives ahead of them.

One was a drive by shooting and the other a knife attack. Where r the guns coming from I thought it was pretty hard to get one here.

Another young man has lost his life tonight.

It is sickening.

New York has brought down its murder rate by a huge percentage. London is nowhere near the 90s rate of NY murders. We need to look to them to see how they did it and put it into action NOW.

To be fair it's only in the last two months that London's rate has been higher...it's a bit early to call it a trend.

Frasier - Yes! It's heart breaking, I don't think police cuts help.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43628494

This is a reality check on the shock headline. Much too early to call it a trend. Would be interesting to find out the victims’ identities - are they all gang related murders?

Really sad, that's another two innocent lives.

Maybe New York is still more violent but there has certainly been an increase in the number of stabbings and murders here.

There have been more stabbings tonight apparently 😞

It just seems to be out of control

@frasier

But the reality will cause a lot of controversy - stop-and-check procedures that discriminate against Blacks and Hispanics (note this would be Muslims in the UK), or police carring guns as a deterrent, etc

This was one of the main methods that New York Republicans managed to get into power.

cocacola why muslims? Are disproportionate numbers of Muslims carrying out these violent crimes?

Theeyeofthestormchaser, the Times posted a gallery of all the victims. Most were Afro-Caribbean; not one was white.

If it's the Afro Caribbean community predominantly carrying out the attacks, then they would be the ones to be stopped and searched.

If the victims are also Afro Caribbean, surely it is in the communities best interests?