Knife Crime

Script

Uneasy, anxious and unsafe.

This is what every teenager feels like when
they walk. If it is through a town centre, to
our houses, to school or just down the road.
Some may think the worse like they will be
attacked, and some may think they are
vulnerable and defenceless.
Society makes everyone change. It makes them
question who they are and transforms people
into something they truly are not.
Being big, masculine and someone who is not
pictured as a coward is something many
teenage boys desire to be like. Deaths and
fatal injuries are increasing in teenagers
and young adults due to knife crime.
Not only are some of these people
unprotected, but some are provoking the
danger and harm for others and creating an
unsafe community for everyone.

Knife crime is an important topic across

teenagers and many young adults. Numbers are
rising and as a society where everything is
provoked and influenced over, things are only
getting worse.

In this podcast, I will be talking about the

issues and problems teenagers face with Knife
Crime being a top problem.
As someone of age, this not only impacts
other people around me but myself as well.
It’s something that everyone thinks about and
the number of teenagers that take part in
these malicious acts are taking more and more
lives as each day goes by and families are
devastated by the loss of their young ones.

The emergence of street gang culture in many

marginalised areas has also seen an increased
police presence, which further constrains
young people’s liberty, whether they are
involved in gangs or not.

From a desire to fit in at a young age, many

children and young teenagers result in
copying and becoming almost a duplicate of
everyone else.

The Conversation- a website aimed at the

audience of mainly teenagers, state:
There have been many attempts to investigate
why some young people resort to potentially
fatal violence: from problems at home, to a
lack of opportunity or simply a desire to fit
in. The theory suggests that people who dress
the same, or cover their faces, may act more
aggressively and show less self-awareness and
inhibition than they would otherwise.

In other words, if a group of people do one

thing- others will do the same as a part of
an act to fit in, meaning they will influence
over whatever they do and will complete the
actions of anything told.
To sustain a Knife is almost something normal
for teenagers at this day and age and
thinking about someone carrying one right now
is no surprise.
The numbers of teenagers that walk about with
protection on them like a Knife almost is a
something normal which makes the whole idea
something so wrong.

The world today has music that is influencing

violence. The violence mainly promoted
involves knives and guns. Drill music has
been blamed, at least in part, for fuelling
the surge of murders and other violent
crimes.
Gang disputes and postcode wars are played
out online as rappers post videos mocking or
threatening their rivals.
Young children and teenagers look up to the
people on social media and the music industry
thinking they have a platform for good
reasons however, because of the impact drill
music and the lyrics used, teenagers and
young adults see this as something to look up
to and use the language and actions from
lyrics to oppose different violence and knife
crimes against others.

Not only does this type of music have this

effect on teenagers but their music videos
include weapons, samurai swords, knives and
so many weapons used just for the attention.
Some lyrics talk about killing people whilst
others talk about just a small stab in the
wound, yet they are still on the internet for
any young teenager to see, influencing their
lifestyle into something evolving violence.

Should this still be aloud and is this the

main promote of knife crime and violence?

Teenagers are using Social Media to attract

other teenagers into this state.
The way these teenagers glamorise their
knives or weapons as if It is some sort of
fashion statement. It’s as if they are
glamorising violence as an image for
themselves.

Rising knife crime has coincided with deep

cuts to the UK’s youth facilities.
Children are so scared of becoming victims,
they end up becoming the people carrying
knives.

In such circumstances, people might do

everything they can do to try stay away from
the world of knife crime.

According to Loughborough University, their

website about news states: “Children are not
the problem, they are part of the solution.”

They say, “The spate of knife crimes in

London has whipped the media and politicians
into a frenzy. Knife crime is now described
as an “epidemic” that is spiralling out of
control.
“It’s impact on victims and communities is
horrifying and the police and courts are
seemingly powerless to address it.”

Sky news reports, Adults believe more than

half of children across the country carry a
knife for protection, a survey has found.

Two-thirds, 66%- worried that children aged

between 10 and 18 could become victims of
knife crime, with 61% admitting to worrying
that children feel unsafe in their
neighbourhood because of knife crime.

A Home Office spokesman said: "We are

determined to make our streets safer which
is why we are recruiting 20,000 new police
officers to protect our communities and have
made it easier for them to use stop and
search powers.

Because of this, even food chains have

resulted in trying to change people’s ways-
“#knife-free” boxes are distributed to more
than 200 chicken shops as a way, to help
promote that this is something to be stopped.

Not only this, but A Home Office spokesman

said: "We are determined to make our streets
safer which is why we are recruiting 20,000
new police officers to protect our
communities and have made it easier for them
to use stop and search powers.

They also state: "Our Serious Violence

Strategy also focuses on steering young
people away from knife crime.

"Our #knifefree campaign challenges the myth

that carrying a knife makes you safer and we
are investing over £220m in early
intervention projects."

Hoping for a decrease in the amount of knife

carrying and crimes in the UK.
It is said that more youth clubs, sports
clubs, community centres and youth clubs have
been opened to make areas safer for children.

The UK is hitting so hard with knife crime

that the worry of parents and guardians are
beginning to tell their children about the
issue of knife crime at a very young age.

The Express exclaims: “Terrified parents are

warning children about knife crime at the age

of just SEVEN.”

Parents are warning their children about

knife crime from the age of just SEVEN, a

shock study shows.

While most parents reckon 10 or 11 is the

right time to broach the tricky subject, one

in 10 has felt the need to raise the issue

during infant school, as matters get worse.

Some may disagree with the challenges parents

are going through with to secure their
children in safe environments, Anti-knife
crime campaigner Brooke Kinsella, whose
brother Ben was stabbed to death in 2008 aged
just 16, said: "You can't wrap up children in
cotton wool and lock them up so they can't go
out.

"But our children should not be worried about

knife crime. They should be thinking about
exam results, where they want to go to
college and what they want to do when they
grow up.
"They should not be worried that they are not
going to grow up."
Siobhan Freegard added: "Knives can change
lives in seconds so it's vital we all know
how to help victims quickly.”

As a teenager myself, the fear of going out

grows from time to time and so is It for many
other teenagers and shouldn’t be something we
spend 90% of our time thinking about but
living out childhood in freedom and peace.