Submitted 23 hours ago by TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I do remember while there were some cases of teens killing people in the 2000’s, they were few and far between, now it’s like you got to watch out for teens rather than adults and there’s a very potent hazard of being killed by a pack.
What happened?
Crime “seeming more common place” is media fear mongering 99.9999% of the time
do you watch gbnews and read the daily mail?
are you in a social media bubble of your own creation?
Is this based on real, reliable statistics or just newspaper headlines?
Newspapers/websites just want to make money and people tend to read articles that frighten them and/or make them angry. Be careful with what you read/watch and verify with actual statistics.
I put myself on a news-diet and it massively improved my life. Instead of worrying about the world burning and feeling unable to do anything about it, I have much more energy to actually do things I like and/or find important and am also much more able to invest in deep relationships with friends. I cannot recommend it enough.
Important news will get to you anyway, there is no need to check news outlets every 5 minutes.
Because it is
What happened? it doesn’t seem to be affecting one area of the UK either but most places of the UK at once. what’s going on with British teens?
Correct but it affects london disproportionately and I’m probably not allowed to explain why
If you’re going to bring race into it, the cases off the top of my head, including in the cases i linked involved white people…
Race is the reason, though. As in: crime has been going down for years, but if we pretend it’s going up and it’s caused by black people, they’ll vote for us (Reform, AfD, CDU, Republicans, PVV, etc).
Seems like you are just a troll. 👍
People above a certain age in the UK know how to keep calm and carry on.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 23 hours ago
I was in the police from early 2004 until end of 2016.
Things were significantly and statistically worse back then, including violence. The kids especially were fucking feral.
I worked in a predominantly rural area and in 2004/2005 our station was firebombed twice, police officers were regularly assaulted and we would have to attend incidents as a three because we needed someone to look after the vehicle whilst dealing with a job.
It wasn’t a friday night if we weren’t having bottles chucked at us from alleyways, and youth drunkeness and antisocial behaviour was rife.
Over the years we managed to get a grip on it. Council evicted a lot of the troublesome families and we locked up the rest. By the time I left, the job was almost boring.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The ones that were evicted now live in OP’s neighborhood
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Username checks out 😅
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
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