Why Is This?

[anotheoldgit]

While Britain's press goes hysterical over the sick drunken pranks of a few bonfire night idiots, even to naming and publishing their photographs, before they have been found guilty of an offence not yet found, London has seen it's 5th knife deaths in 6 days, making it the 119th killing this year, seems to be of lesser concern.

/// It was the capital’s fifth knife death in six days and 119th killing this year
Police logged a record 39,332 knife offences nationwide in the half year to June ///

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6360909/Removals-boss-teacher-partner-built-Grenfell-Tower-effigy-mocking-72-killed-win-contest.html

[mushroom25]

performance driven police maybe? easy to get brownie points on your annual assessment if the perpetrator gives himself away - whilst murders are difficult and expensive to investigate.

[douglas9401]

Maybe because the majority of the press, like our guardians and saviours, prefer stuff handed to them on a plate.

This fits the bill perfectly.

[spathiphyllum]

"making it the 119th killing this year"

With only one month to go, that seems about average?

[Rockrose]

That's approx. 2.6 a day, there is more deaths on the roads each year so how should we manage that?

[retrocop]

The big difference is a RTC was called a RTA . One is an accident or careless negligence. The other is Murder

[-Talbot-]

2.6 a day?

[-Talbot-]

Did you mean a death every 2.6 days (though it would actually be 3)

[Spicerack]

^Abbot worked that out.

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

/// That's approx. 2.6 a day, there is more deaths on the roads each year so how should we manage that? ///

What a stupid analogy to make, road deaths are accidents, these knife deaths are deliberate murders.

[anotheoldgit]

To put it into some kind of perspective, 72 died in the Grenfell Tower burning.

[Spicerack]

So....Rocky thinks Black Lives dont Matter.

[spathiphyllum]

the murder rate in 2017 was still well below the peak we saw in 2003.

[-Talbot-]

Back to the OP I don't think knife deaths are of a lesser concern.
Do you honestly believe what you have typed out, AOG?

[Rockrose]

Spicerack please show where I said that?
AOG please don't infer that I am stupid - otherwise I too could act like a big nasty kid and start calling you names.

[spathiphyllum]

Lettuce leaf the neg attitudes

[retrocop]

Talbot //Back to the OP I don't think knife deaths are of a lesser concern. //
Well the judiciary are apparently not working on the 'two strikes and your out' of circulation suggestion according to the press.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - History on the section shows that you show considerable interest and concern in what you rather unfortunately term 'black on black' violence.

However, comparing one situation with another in the hope that an appropriate comparison can be made is futile.

Is a knife murder more tragic than a stupid tasteless prank?

Of course it is - but there is no viable comparison in terms of which we should be more concerned about - since it is absolutely possible to be concerned about both, and by no means equally.

Your apparent inference is that because the media is enjoying a field day because a stupid prank has enabled the papers to whip up their readers into a storm of self-righteous indignation - and that sells papers, which is entirely the point - that the seriousness of knife crime is somehow viewed as less significant, either in terms of media exposure, or police resources assigned.

I think this conclusion is flawed.

I believe that society is concerned about knife crime - far more than it is about stupid people doing stupid things, and we should not allow the distortion of interest created and encouraged by the media, to divert us from simple reality.

Sadly the crass stupidity of morons with a bonfire is always going to present more newsworthy (read sales increases) fodder to the media, which is why there is this apparent dichotomy in terms of coverage.

As long as we remember that national media coverage only equates to national interest, which is often lightweight and fleeting, and does not reflect the deeper concerns of society over its rightfully deeper concerns.

[anotheoldgit]

-Talbot-

/// Back to the OP I don't think knife deaths are of a lesser concern.
Do you honestly believe what you have typed out, AOG? ///

Just switch on your TV or pick up a newspaper what story has hit the headlines?

Are the communities taking to the streets over the daily killings of their young.

The bonfire affair only took place the other day and already the police are searching houses and have made arrests of the perpetrators, how many life sentences have been issued over the knife killings?

[retrocop]

sorry I omitted the link to earlier post.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426165/Most-knife-thugs-sent-prison-Camerons-law-branded-flop-courts-ignore-new-crime-aggravated-possession.html

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

Inferring and actually calling you stupid are two different matters.

/// deduce or conclude (something) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. ///