It's always heartening to see Rent-a-Gob here, reducing complex problems to Daily Mail friendly sound bites.
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What else would you add?
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The fact that high levels of pollution are shown to have detrimental effects on brain development, lack of resources in schools meaning issues aren't identified before they escalate, no realistic economic options for low achieving kids to get themselves out of poverty. Any more?
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What a great, well thought out reply.
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But true, doesn't need much thought
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I don't live in a high level polluted area but am experiencing higher levels of crime/violence and am now worried about my kids. Explain the lower pollution to higher crime please?
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well that’s 5 of them but there are also many other factors if only it was that easy to say Jonny is a violent drug dealer because he didn’t get the cane at school, always best to remember the Kray twins grew up in an era of discipline in the home and at school
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Who talked about the cane? Discipline has nothing to do with hitting kids.
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How would you punish disobedience then?
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Listen to her talk show. That is serious punishment..
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Sweeping generalisations Julia- there are millions who do discipline their children and schools examination success appears reasonable - however our JUSTICE system - Sentencing Prison Terms in full - tougher prisons rehabilitation AFTER punishment - supporting Police on Remand
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Those aren’t sweeping generalisations about most people’s lives - they are, though, all common to the lives of violent young people
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This is great. You've started to identify some of those complex root causes the
@MayorofLondon mentions. The next step is to scrutinise these issues and the ways in which they interact so we can take effective steps to prevent violent crime as the outcome. Glad you're on board. -
We don’t need to start doing this at all. All of the many causes are well known and so are the solutions. Let’s just get one with it.
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Your well-known, trite talking points do not explain the recent surge in violent crime, which suggests the actual causes are more complex than you pretend. While you're on the sidelines scoffing serious people are putting in the real work of trying to tackle this problem,
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The causes aren’t complex - fatherless boys allowed to reject free education, police who are not allowed to police (Khan is responsible for the reduction in S&S), weak sentencing, and gang culture unheard of until recently - it’s all fixable, but you wouldn’t like the fix.
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More kids are being stabbed in the street where I live in Camberwell than in the Cotswolds, so I'm all ears if you've got the answer there. It's no use saying it's fixable without coming out and telling us what the fix is, which is all I'm seeing here.
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...while not jailing people for victimless crime eg drugs offences (I’d legalise all drugs in fact). It would not be quick or painless or easy but it would be better than watching a generation of kids act out their gangsta fantasies on London’s streets.
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Thank you. Just suggesting anything makes you braver than me already. I do like most of those fixes. But as you say, doing it isn't easy or painless, and I disagree on stop and search. I think, on balance, as it's been done in London, the pain it causes outweighs the benefits.
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I believe the racism talk around stop-search is confected by criminals who want their mules, dealers and enforcers to go unimpeded, but either way the stats are clear that its reduction coincided with an increase in murder. Same happened in Chicago around 2014/15 too.
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