Current Affairs The "another stabbing in London" thread

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JelavicBrate2 said:
I think your linking together a variety of separate issues that aren't really linked together and your also making assumptions. Very few members of the American Mafia, Mexican crime gangs or the Triads were raised in fatherless families. But these gangs are fighting for the control of the smuggling of drugs into countries, worth millions of dollars. African American gangs are even fighting over drugs, many of the murders are random, just watch Louis Theroux's visit to the mid west. I highly doubt that any of members of the grooming cases grew up in fatherless families, unless their father died. I'm just pointing out communities were you tend to find large numbers of children raised without fathers, from Russia to Jamaica tend to have huge problems with gang activity.
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Not sure how you can posit that fatherless families result in gangs, but families with a father result in better gangs. It is also a bit much to claim that many of these murders are random - at least in the commonly understood meaning of the term "random". I'd say that most of them are the result of disputes, admittedly disputes that in the cold light of day seem absurd, but the vast majority of them aren't one gang deciding to just pop some random passerby off, they are incidents with a history behind them.

JelavicBrate2 said:
Also you can't explain why other groups who live in the same area as African Americans and Black British people don't commit the same levels of crime. The poverty rate for Hispanics in America is similar to that of African Americans, yet Hispanics don't commit crime at the same level. You didn't have the Crips and the Bloods before the 1970's when the rise of fatherless families in the Black community started, the same is the case in Britain. How many Black lads serving time in prison, grew up with a father in the picture. The same applies with White gang members in Britain, how many of them grew up with a father in the house.
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I'd go and read this wikipedia article if I were you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States
 
peteblue said:
Did he get done for manslaughter or just get off completely.....I mean he did actually stab the lad......
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Found not guilty of manslaughter and murder. Stabbed the lad in the chest I believe.

I refuse to believe that in this country a kid from a poor background would have been given such leniency
 
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