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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Okay, so it's a socio economic issue. But that's the cause, and the symptom is that knife crime, gun crime, and gang crime is higher in their communities. Whatever the solution is, it won't be helped by not taking steps to stop those crimes from happening.

Absolutely and the cause should be clearly identified, calling most violent crimes "black crimes" only muddies the waters when looking at solutions, the solution isn't to help people "be less black" ffs, it's to help people to be able to have and want to have better prospects in life...like how they tackled the issue in Glasgow when knife attacks were a predominantly "white crime" (course no one called it that then.......case in point)