The Most Dangerous Place In Britain: “You Can Get Stabbed Walking Anywhere”

Cleveland - a relatively small area on the North East Coast of England, covering parts of Yorkshire, Durham and Teesside. It’s not just the River Tees which flows through the region - it’s crime too.
Crime rates across Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton and Redcar are the highest of anywhere in the country. And with violent offences the biggest contributor - it’s the most dangerous place in Britain.
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[@myopinionsmayoffendyou]

"I used to carry a knife to protect myself" proceeds to tell a story about trying rob someone and stabbing them for not cooperating.

[@Goady1000]

Haha a joke right

[@FarObserver]

Should be living in a basic cell, with basic food, breaking rocks 4 hours a day, combined with basic education for the other 4. Repeat for 10 years.

[@jimmyfaulkner5746]

​@FarObserver it's really not rocket science

[@Daz759]

He's talking shite....never stabbed anyone

[@BillClinton228]

Same logic as Hamas

[@user-ux5xb9zo7k]

"He came round and stabbed me, stabbed me, stabbed me, and I thought, oh no" Most British response ever!

[@A._.A._.]

🤣

[@AntoHooper]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@gtrdxz]

🤣 I came to say this bahahaha

[@hannahrice3860]

😂😂😂😂

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

💀

[@hogganknowsbest]

Guy is more likely to stab himself carrying around a knife like that

[@sheringbernhardsgruetter8276]

Yeah thats so dangerous

[@Sportingchance100]

Only COWARDS carry knives

[@marinekong235]

and slides into his pants pointing where is cockerel is - can't get any smarter than that hahaha

[@ShawniaMarie]

​@Sportingchance100, they can't carry anything else. Granted, I think he needs to be under the jail for his crimes!!

[@darkness5702]

@@Sportingchance100Real man use a machete.

[@mathewgurney2033]

Poor guy who tried to fight honourably, still thought he was living in the old England.

[@dorothyhunter9311]

Well said.

[@silverbullet2008bb]

Exactly. His way is the exact type of English way of dealing with a fight that my elders told me about.

[@peterjanssen.4149]

It s yes a shithol der .PS all of West Europa .Stay safe there.

[@BlueSkyCountry]

This is one of the reasons why UK military losing recruits. Nobody is going put their lives on the line to defend THIS back home.

[@sh.4409]

For foreign men to sit in hotels and not fight for their own country!

[@BlueSkyCountry]

@@sh.4409 If I lived under a system that told me that I cannot own a gun, and that if I carry a knife for my own safety, I am a coward, I will no longer contribute to that society. No taxes, no potential talent, and no new generation to be preyed upon.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

I served my time I'm done after seeing gaza and what our wepons do I'm not fighting no more

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Exactly it's a living nightmare since New Labour got in, the Tories have done nothing to protect us either, it feels hopeless.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

@@zoltan-zq3xe well the last labour government left 56 billion for schools only Micheal gove spent the money not on schools but elsewhere

[@genoajames1866]

Who wants to fight for this Britain? British Soldiers who fought bravely in WW2 are rolling in their graves if they saw what the UK has become.

[@jlfc9024]

The fact the army only pay mediocre wage of 18k a year also has something to do with it

[@bingbong2205]

Ww2 wasn't what your lead to believe ,hitler rose to power in American occupied Germany with American money

[@lasakau272]

Yeah because peaky blinders didn’t exist back then taking peoples eye sight for fun

[@genoajames1866]

@@lasakau272 The Peaky Blinders stabbings probably pale in comparison to the amount that occur in Britain daily nowadays.

[@Rhyfelwr_Cymreig]

@@lasakau272 Except they didn't take peoples eyes for fun, They took other gangs eyes. The old gangsters ran things like a business, and did a better job than the Police do these days.

[@silviafreitas5184]

I feel sorry for the shop guy, the way he needs to protect him self from this criminals. Horrible. England is done

[@Bruno0690]

Tbm sou Freitas

[@Animal-Reaction-Clips]

England is finished long ago

[@demonia2848]

Bowing down to rampant liberalis and WOKEism ie the new Nazism is what is destroying this country. People simply cry racism without knowing what it means or discrim and do gooders fall over themselves to bend the knee to them.

[@demonia2848]

*liberalism *discrimination

[@Fazedyla]

I am from the uk and. I nearly died

[@jorgejuantorresquiroga5441]

"Put the weapons down and and I'll fight ya's all" - Gary Gill, knife attack victim and local badass

[@splodge5714]

What a terrible country this has turned into. Full of horrible people😞

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

Charming I come from a worse place than that I still have manners and respect

[@hectichazerdus]

The empire has fallen. Its inevitable no1 stays top place forever

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Tony Blair's Labour started it in 97 with all this globalist rubbish, now our country is a shell of its former self.

[@whaupdawg]

it's the grill music

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

King Charles = King of horrible people

[@r.f.9188]

"I asked him for all his money"...."unfortunately he got stabbed up 11 times". No sense of personal responsibility or remorse, after 14 years in jail.

[@jakebarnes3054]

It simply happened

[@stelladavis7832]

A psychopath and a narcacist

[@markdawson4625]

What he meant to say was, ‘I was a knife carrying robber, my victim fought back and I stabbed him 11 times. I was totally at fault and I am a reformed character’. I don’t believe a word of his BS version of events, and not properly challenged by the reporter!

[@DutyDynamo]

Y is he out after 14 years tho? These ppl shouldn’t be let out of a jail cell ever…or should live with an ankle bracelet thing to monitor their every move… no way u stabbed some1 11 times then get out after 14 years … he could do it again and do another 14 years like wats the point

[@danofficial117]

Still didn’t get the money so what was the point

[@Chelskie-darts]

I’ve lived in Middlesbrough all my life , I’m 38 now … I’ve been stabbed and I’ve had a shotgun put to my head , few stints in prison (when I was younger) I’ve grew up now and got 3 young kids 5yr old and twins 2yr old , I don’t see much of this behaviour in boro and I live in a rough area , I’m well known in boro and know the people who could potentially try n hurt me or steal , burgle my house …. I’ll protect my children and partner with my life ….. respect to Harris for helping the kids in our local area , his a good man Harris and I’m gonna see about volunteering at the centre myself to give him a hand

[@Goatededitz6969]

Wow man you have had a heck of a life props to you for Odin all that and goin through that

[@Chelskie-darts]

@@Goatededitz6969 : respect mate 🫡

[@SucculentSpaz]

Why are you okay with bringing kids up in an environment like that...?

[@Chelskie-darts]

@@SucculentSpaz : that’s council estates across the uk tbf mate , I’ve grown up a lot now and will teach my young children to live the right way , been alot of very successful people come out of Middlesbrough over the years and hopefully my own children don’t fall into the wrong crowd and can learn from my own mistakes and do well in life , there’s still a lot of good people , honest , kind caring folk in Middlesbrough and no1 should have to move away because of a percentage of scumbags

[@chazaofworld]

@@Chelskie-darts hey good for you mate. i lived near a council estate and met some great people from there. cant judge a book by its cover i think the best of england comes from the council estates

[@KingRooney89]

This is what happens when a government neglects a whole area of the country. This isn’t just 5 or 10 years of neglect this is DECADES. These people have been failed

[@IFAMILYIH]

“Unfortunately he got stabbed 11 times” what a complete joke lad avoiding responsibility

[@001jozef]

Exactly..He is not even regretting,look at his eyes ,he is laying !

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

Still better than Cleveland.

[@straighttalking2090]

@@001jozef I reckon he does regret it - he's just too ashamed to say the right words. That's another kind of courage.

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

I think he is ashamed and can't bring himself to say what he did. I'de be more ashamed of that tracksuit he was wearing.

[@LeDiamondDog]

This is really unfortunate What a coincidence 😂😂😂

[@ashleywilson2072]

Sadly every UK city now has an area like this. It's years of poverty, deprivation, poor mental health and addiction. It's almost impossible to escape.

[@spencer2721]

It is possible to escape, stop taking drugs and put your mind to something productive, no excuses! We can’t keep making excuses the takers are as bad as the dealers! If they didn’t buy we wouldn’t have the problem. The stuff is awful and ruins lives!

[@bawsack69]

No it's not, it's Anarcho-tyranny, the government is deliberately allowing these people to roam free so they can justify the 100% surveillance agenda they are pushing.

[@anthonyelwick3600]

Not an excuse

[@SagaciousFrank]

​​@@anthonyelwick3600, yes it is, it's the excuse industry. These people are never ever responsible for their own actions.

[@SagaciousFrank]

Poverty my backside, these criminals don't know the meaning of the word.

[@brynstarkiller7419]

My Dad’s from Middlesbrough. The Gov have abandoned the North East. Such a shame as it was a bustling steel works and ship building area on the River. I still have family there. How awful . Bless Boro and her people.

[@davidmarchant9386]

They did it in our mining towns also take jobs away from the small isolated towns what will happen 20-30 years later due to extreme poverty

[@NoName-vy8vu]

These towns can compete with Chinese shipbuilding or mining… it’s not the governments fault. People have access to the internet… you can learn anything… no excuses

[@Thorgrim153]

I completely agree, I'm from the north east originally and the area has been dieing and left abandoned by multiple governments for decades

[@robbo8074]

Its not even about labour or torrie any more they are both at fault

[@SoaronhighlikeEagle]

Good to see one good piece of proper journalism! Thanks 🙏🏻

[@user-yz2pj4wl1w]

The law is a joke in England, bums are not afraid of a couple of years in prison, when will England ever learn. I’m just saddened by the state the UK is in, shame on us all.

[@kevinengland7444]

Bums? Do you think you're in Chicago or something?

[@goodyeoman4534]

It won't learn. It will keep putting up with everything the government forces on them. And when it gets too much, the government will pretend they are going to finally do something, spin a bit of propaganda, and we'll lost a few more of our rights and descent that little bit closer into tyranny. Freedom has to be fought for, and no one in Britain has any fight in them - we saw that through COVID. And don't expect the army to do anything - they'll obey the Eton toffs.

[@micaeloliveira2727]

Jails are a joke 🤣🤣 they eat , smoke drugs , drink alcohol, have mobile phones , gym,their friends around and get street respect 😅😅 I can't understand the prison system. Where's labor to pay the bills ??? Who's in jail me or them ???

[@murphycreationsvideos]

True, yet the police are wasting time on arresting auditors who are filming around police stations on public land which is totally legal instead of arresting these drug dealers.

[@joelc9439]

If you send them to jails in Singapore and then they will be worried.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

you can't claim to carry a knife for protection and then go around mugging people and stabbing them because you didn't get a cigarette. this here is the issue, you let them all claim its for protection but its really because you're weak and want to just stab someone. he clearly doesn't feel that bad because the knife wasn't used in self defence and he knows it was never for self defence.

[@DaemonZodiac]

Well said

[@infinnite4938]

honestly u cant just assume that. really.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

@@infinnite4938 its literally what he said he done, its not an assumption. if he was carrying it for self defence, he would be using against those attacking him, not the other way around. or if im missing something, please elaborate because you've came with nothing lol.

[@infinnite4938]

i was watching with captions@@TheCutiePatrol

[@northwestcoast]

‘Trying to give me smoke’ has nothing to do with cigarettes

[@RugbyLeagueHistory]

I've lived in Stockton-on-Tees for six year, never had an issue with anyone. The thing I have found is, if you are in that drug world or in that scene of crime or violence, you will find trouble and you will have a sticky end. If you are just minding your own business and not part of their world, they leave you alone. Cleveland also doesn't exist anymore, it's County Durham and North Yorkshire these places are located in. Cleveland was ended in 1996.

[@YungLimox]

This is very true and I always try to tell people that. There’s an off chance that you can walk through a dark park or a dodgy area in a bad neighborhood in midnight and get attacked but like honestly what do you expect? We gotta use a special thing that apparently not everyone has called a brain 🤣

[@peteryork9]

Me too never seen any trouble

[@joshnoble7539]

Cleveland is still a thing mate. Its still called Cleveland Police...

[@RugbyLeagueHistory]

@@joshnoble7539 They should be renamed to something else. The county was abolished in 1996.

[@joshnoble7539]

@@RugbyLeagueHistory There is not one set category for UK counties, Cleveland still exists in the royal mails postal counties, as well as Redcar and Cleveland local county council.

[@YourLocalGP]

Its good to know that the government saw this area and thought "You know what this needs. A Freeport!"

[@dannycampbell7294]

Africa will soon be doing a band aid song for uk 😅

[@leftturnclyde3398]

😂

[@keithmason5584]

😂

[@nocap8223]

You do realise the UK HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS??!!!!

[@nifralo2752]

​@@nocap8223what drugs did they have in rhe 40s? Who during World war 2 new what narcotics were?

[@thacrypt223]

The british empire. They were selling opium and fighting opium wars for some time by that point.@@nifralo2752

[@Mossyz.]

My Grandad would not recognize this country if he were to be alive today, God rest his soul.🙏.

[@mjh5437]

My father died only 15 years ago and he wouldn`t recognise it either...That`s how quickly the country is going to the dogs thanks to mass immigration and hiphop knife and gun "culture".

[@intello8953]

He would if he lived pre 1950s 😂. Don’t act like Britain was some sort utopia pre 1970s or something 😂

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

​​​​@@intello8953It was compared to this globalist dump miles of pretty villages and towns and amazing cities the left ruined it, I remember it and I'm only late 50s what have you people done? never pretend you care about the working class your liars.

[@veronicacrabtreehill6608]

@intello8953 W​ell MY Grandfather was born in 1893. So answer about that then. It was a lovely world back when I was born in 1937 as well. Just before the war and, after it it was great.

[@intello8953]

@@veronicacrabtreehill6608 well if he grew in a small town then that’s nice but this was definitely near the end of the Victorian era which was mired with extreme poverty and extreme wealth at the same time

[@M4kaio]

Sucks too because I'm a student at Teesside Uni and the campus and University are fantastic, but as soon as you step off it's such a disappointment.

[@JT-km6th]

The myth was only London had stabbings. In fact it's tame compared to northern towns and cities, these areas are far more rough than London.

[@thebiggestarena]

This is so disturbing and depressing that I feel physically unwell

[@johnadams1976]

The state of the country, I'd not have children now.

[@Blue24Osprey]

It is sickening.

[@KatharinaK117]

​@Blue24Osprey say thks to yr governments 👎🏼🐍

[@ValTwineDeaner]

I'm 64 and incredibly glad I never had children.

[@DanniiBundy]

Man up, we're British.

[@diggattimodeste]

UK is quickly becoming one of the worst places in Europe to live,

[@libertypltd4198]

You haven't been to the council estates in and around Paris. Teenages with soviet machine guns.

[@bennyboy2079]

Not really

[@christelleakobo4288]

In Paris?? Dont lie

[@ianpeacock9240]

I wonder why

[@Iforgotmyname898]

@@christelleakobo4288I grew up there I swear look it up

[@gunnerboy2975]

A bloke I know moved to Qatar as an expat. He told me he often leaves the front door of his house & windows open, even whilst sleeping, but over here that's asking for trouble! He even said he leaves his car keys, mobile phone, loads of cash and expensive jewellery in his car with all the windows open and doors unlocked, and to this day not even a penny has gone missing even when he's been abroad on holiday or for work. If we left our car keys in our car and walked away from it, guarantee within 15 minutes someone will drive it to a ferry going to Japan. Going onto knives, anyone caught in possession of a knife, firearm or any weapon in Qatar is thrown straight in jail and the police can search you at any point without you kicking up a fuss whereas you see people throwing hissyfits over stop and search. Sounds like people in Qatar are not willing to do the crime possibly due to their strict measures (and rightly so). Not sure if they chop arms off for stealing, possibly gospel and rumours but that's a separate issue. We're way too soft on criminals, they barely get a slip on the wrist and when they've served their sentence, most of them are back at it!

[@YourLocalGP]

His life would be significantly different if he were a woman, mind.

[@JD-hx7yd]

​@YourLocalGP yeah Qatar is a country that exemplifies the point of referring to the good parts of a bad system. I think we should be tougher on crime in this country.

[@whatdoiknow1005]

​@YourLocalGP misconception. I actually find people more respectful and accommodating here in the middle east. Women are comfortable and well looked after by society.

[@jagorsimp7020]

It's not just a Qatar thing. In Japan you can leave your wallet in the street and be pretty sure to find it where it was an hour later. I've lived in Iceland for a year and haven't locked my house's door even once. And most countryside place in Europe were like that as well. If people are educated, employed, and that a shared sense of community and respect exists, you don't need to chop somoene's off to live in peace.

[@JackBurton-qp4hc]

@@whatdoiknow1005 You say "looked after", I say oppressed. My pet dog is "comfortable and well looked after" but kept on a short lead.

[@John-ql4wo]

God bless you Donna Peacock. We need more human beings like you in this country. Actual care about where the kids are and what they are up to. ❤

[@mattshipley570]

My partner spent 3 years living in Hartlepool for university, and I used to visit regularly. I can confirm there is absolutely no hope left in Teeside. A truly neglected part of the country, a pit of depression. However the best people of Teeside are some of the most true and honest you will find in the UK, and they deserve a much brighter future

[@cyanidecapsule6275]

It’s in the roughest areas you’ll find a small portion of the most down to earth people. It’s because they’ve seen the horrors and bullshit, yet they still try to get about their day.

[@sonnytopboy4975]

Met some great guys from Hartlepool and Redcar but that was a few years ago working on sites

[@Acastaigne]

One of my best mates comes from Middlesbrough and lived there for 20 years before moving away. I always thought he was exaggerating about how bad it had gotten there...now I see he wasn't.

[@user-bj9um8yd2l]

Try Swindon 😢😢😢

[@user-to4wr1wq4t]

It's Teesside not Teeside

[@curlew-3592]

People won’t like to hear it but I’m afraid the breakdown of the family, lack of good parenting, absent fathers. The list could go on, but there is no getting away from it these are causes. I can remember when our country wasn’t like This because these young men had jobs to walk into when they left school. As the saying goes, Idle hands make mischief.

[@ldn876]

💯🎯

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

But we have more "rights", that matters more! They say.

[@Alex-rv1mj]

100 percent absent fathers and no discipline, no good father role models. A kid isn't gonna listen to it's mother if all their mates are from broken families and doing what they want

[@MichaelWillby]

Parenting has been taken away from parents

[@I.Musaa2008]

What do you think is causing the absent fatherhood? Are the fathers not living with their kids/out of their lives all together or are they there but just unable to control their kids?

[@user-wg1gd5gg7s]

This is important because it also breaks the scapegoat that all of UK's crime problems are due to immigration. There's a deeper problem going on here and it needs to become the absolute top priority of the government. This is tragic.

[@zoe._.1850]

Thank you!

[@alanboots1106]

Totally agree

[@charliederrick1583]

But Middlesborough does have heavy immigration, particularly in recent years, they are not the cause of these issues (that would be the closing down of pretty much all major industry in the region) but they certainly do not help, many first generation families send a lot of their earnings back home rather than investing in the local community in any positive way. Then there are foregin illegal migrants that come specifically for the purpose of working in the drug trade and trafficking other individuals to work in grow houses etc. Those groups often clash with local white gangs and on and on. Although you cant blame these people for the situation their arrival does not help in any way at all and often results in more violence and racial and religious hatred, divides etc...

[@bendover-bz4bc]

@@charliederrick1583 blame illegal immigration. Not all immigrants. 2000 nurses from india are coming next month to join NHS as there is lack of nurses in UK. You guys crying about it but you completely ignore all the illegal boats coming to your land from Africa

[@diopfifi4937]

​@@bendover-bz4bcmost of the people from the boats are from the middle East and places like Afghanistan etc.

[@johnh4563]

Good luck to the lads trying to change things for the better. 👍

[@droxi1059]

I’m an English man in his early 20’s, north-western. Someone got shot down the road from where I am. I’ve been chased by lads with knives, hammers and swords. This is my present, I can’t begin to imagine my children’s future.

[@xgtwb6473]

Where were their ancestors from

[@RetardedRider]

@@xgtwb6473what are you trying to say with that

[@SPFboy86]

​@@RetardedRiderPossibly that the attackers weren't white...

[@jamesirvine9493]

do you live in a multicultural environment why would this matter, well it may make people have no respect for others

[@xgtwb6473]

@@RetardedRider pretty obvious isn't it 😂😂😂

[@grantmckendry3323]

Sections of the UK need to fenced off from other parts of society.

[@TaiJowers]

Just Boro lad

[@noooname2568]

Sound, you’d have the country the size of Suffolk then 👍

[@zubrhero5270]

If you did that... We'd have like 6 unfenced villages.

[@namastelounge3863]

I left the UK 30 years ago. I visit every year but it has become a pit !

[@adriansolomon6805]

I forecasted this 30 years ago when we were told not to smack our kids! The kids are running wild and feral ! This has gone beyond sense now so we need specially trained forces to deal with the the problem. We should start with the schools and Social media.😢

[@magnus9701]

take mobile phones off kids , simples

[@sammymillinchip8456]

This is very true!

[@matthewbacon5734]

My teachers at Primary School would have us all cross legged on the floor for country dancing, if we boys played up they would pick us up by our seventies hair and shake us!

[@mixKid12]

Chavs blame the parents

[@chrisspencer6502]

Ohh yea the kids back the 80 were so well behaved. They weren’t going to football games and shanking other Same in the sixties they just pootled about on their scooters and motorcycles. Not fighting with each other

[@oleggorky906]

The disguised geezer: “I’ve stabbed about 20 people.” He might just be bigging himself up. On the other hand, from the looks his pal was giving him, he looks a fully fledged looney tune.

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

Hes talking bollocks. I've never hurt anyone, even in my biker days🙄

[@oleggorky906]

@@beaterbikechannel2538 Regardless, he’ll probably pay for all the big talk. Someone knows who he is and the authorities like to hang out on social media to see what little fish they can catch. Better off saying nowt. And certainly not wise pulling that shank out on camera 🎥.

[@robertwilliams9234]

@@beaterbikechannel2538he’s talking absolute bullshit

[@Truckerjayjay]

​​@@robertwilliams9234 He's not, I live in Hemo, I know him

[@bagadabuds]

They stab people for a tenners worth of gear it's the economy

[@jamie3356]

20:46 hearing him talk about the levels of crime in the area (where I live) is actually embarrassing. I've never seen someone so in denial about the current state of affairs in Teesside, there's areas where the police don't dare to go into because even they fear the gangs that have taken over. Granted, there are estates which are hubs for criminal activity but that doesn't mean that crime is contained to those areas. I moved from Stockton a few years ago because of how bad it was; in the first week of living in Stockton 3 people were over in an intentional hit and run, then after a year I was burgled while I was asleep in front of the TV. One night I came home to find my landlord had let himself into the house, after a brief argument I locked him out since he didn't give any notice at it was 7pm... He kicked my door in and stole my keys. The police caught up with him on his way home and proceeded to let him go and no further action was taken. Months later he got arrested for growing weed in the very same house I rented from him. It's like the wild west in Teesside at the minute and only people who refuse to look don't see how rampant the criminals are here.

[@buddybleeyes]

Fantastic documentary

[@kennyroach3136]

I’m from Birmingham and moved to County Durham, (ferry hill) and it rough , rubbish everywhere, burnt out cars and like all the windows in houses are smashed none of the kids go school just ride round on stolen motorbikes , druggies everywhere, I moved back to Birmingham and that’s says something

[@neptunevibe]

Lol .. man I’m from East Europe and we never seen such a degradation.

[@mmmbbop9351]

I grew up in Tyseley. Brum was bad then but places like Liverpool, Grimsby and Scotland are shocking in comparison

[@infinity_sh4816]

damn

[@bob-on9055]

Christ...it must be bad.

[@restojon1]

Well, this is probably the most shocking thing I'm going to read on the Internet... damn...

[@nellynelly8203]

i lived in Cleveland for 5 years. The nicest most hard working humble people I've ever met. The place as been forgotten it's like a huge experiment on how to destroy a community. My partner still lives and works there.

[@DarkAngel2512]

What year was that?

[@loijz1740]

Lived in MIddlesbrough for a year in 2005. It always wasn't a very pleasent area to live. Not pretty. But for me, the people were very friendly all the time and I never faced a dangerous situation. Looks, that it got way worse since then. I am visiting Middlesbrough every now and then, but you don't get what its really like when you just stay a few days downtown and in Saltburn.

[@YOTD777]

But BBC news always focus on black crime and tell us black gangs is the problem 😂😂

[@MyScotty7]

I live in Middlesbrough, that crime commissioner is 100% full of shite!! The area needs special help from the government,its horrendous for violence.

[@nickfba]

Torries hate the working class

[@Simon-50gtf]

Just send in the The Tax Man ...Brian Cockerell 😂 didn't he run for Mayor of Middlesborough once ...That Macintyre Doco ! Cockerell going door to door off his beak in chest high trackie trousers handing out his campaign leaflets telling one Voter as he's going out the gate " I'll see you at the Voting Thingy ! " had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TayWoode]

I live in Yarm and can see the difference when I go to Boro, it’s funny on a night out coz people think you’re posh if you say you’re from Yarm so I just say stockton or thornaby now

[@TayWoode]

@@nickfbaweird thing is more people in Hartlepool voted Tory coz Labour was doing nothing to help

[@nickfba]

@@TayWoode incredible, people don't even know what they're voting g for

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

I lived in Middlesbrough for 9 months. I can confirm it is an absolute cesspit of a place.

[@GinoTricks]

worst place i have ever been to i only go there because my girlfriends family somehow lives there to visit them

[@KolussuslifeKB]

We pray for all the family and friends of those who have lost a loved one through knife crime. We pray that we can all learn to talk things out rather than fighting and killing each other. We need peace and love in every estate, every village, town, city and our communities across this beautiful country.

[@bmeister88]

🙏

[@harvey2609]

"It's not a great"😢 Well said mate.

[@bawsack69]

Its almost as if the major industry of the area was deliberately destoyed in the 80s and replaced with a benefits system.

[@kevinetheridge7201]

It was.

[@Bond2025]

The same type of people were still about.

[@therightarmofthefreeworld4703]

Yeah, because a government really wants to pay people to do fuck all rather than earn a wage and pay taxes…

[@stretfordender11]

And immigrants since 1997 have come in and these working class lads get overlooked. Companies would rather recruit abroad than train people.

[@bawsack69]

@@stretfordender11 They're being replaced.

[@themishmish101]

I've never seen a person carrying a knife, close to his jewels with out a sheath.

[@m4hs33r5]

Just highlights the level of stupidity we're dealing with here...B-)

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

i thought the same, that guy pretty much begs for an "accident". well i doubt it's very tragic if his bloodline ends there😂

[@mrright8794]

Yeah but it's easy to miss such a small target 😅

[@themishmish101]

@@mrright8794 perhaps the target was missing already.

[@cecilchance5843]

​@@mrright8794 goat comment 😂

[@reubendavidson6490]

That first guy sounds like he’s telling a bunch of bs and he’s just snatched his mum’s knife for the camera

[@chelseapoet3664]

I'm sorry to hear Talk TV is struggling financially given the quality of reporting like this.

[@funkubus421]

I lived in Middlesbrough for just under a year, when I was in my early 20s, now in my 40s. Having lived most of my life in Cornwall prior to the move, it was an absolutely horrific culture shock for me. Within the first week of being there, we were burgled and a friend of my then boyfriend was stabbed on the way back from uni. I saw teens robbing jewellery shops, I was assaulted by kids on bikes on the way back from work, we heard prostitutes heckling all night, police helicopters overheard most nights. I was happy to move back to Cornwall after 8 months.

[@funkubus421]

@@ShadzGG Not sure what part of Cornwall you’re referring to. I know some parts are rather rough, as with all counties. But I’d have to disagree and say that it’s not turning anywhere near the same as Middlesbrough. However maybe I’m too far away from the crime to know about it.

[@benjaminhagen2362]

Sounds like Birmingham 😂😅

[@SB-he1cn]

​@@funkubus421Nah. You are right. Cornwall isn't anything like Middlesbrough. I live South Coast now. Grew up North East. And it's a different kind of rough up north. Oddly though, the people are friendlier that aren't in gangs. I always explained the first 20 odd years of my life in the North like this. You get both extremes. You got people that are rougher than rough. Glass you, stab you for nothing just coz they in a mood. But at the same time. Strangers are also overly sound when they want to be. I used to go out drinking. And lads would get you to drink with them at their table if you are just on your ones or with a mate etc. People in shops and strangers on busses just chatting to each other. When I moved down South in my early 20s. I had my Mrs looking at me all strange for talking to strangers in the supermarket or at the bar in a pub. You don't get that down South. Sadly I've loves here nearly as long as I lived up North now and I'm one of those Southerners now and I barely talk to strangers. Ppl just think ya after something like you can't genuinely just be saying hello. So yh. North - friendliest and roughest part of England in my experience. I don't think London knife crime is rough. That's gang, culture, music related often. North is more northern monkeys/ druggies / and depravity behind the violence.

[@LeonardoSummers]

Plenty of racism from the locals in Cornwall

[@Dan-Clark]

I moved up to Stockton in Middlesbrough from London when I was 19 in the mid to late 90s I'm 44 now so know what your saying I only stayed a year and moved on mental times

[@leonward8357]

Before moving away, I lived in Middlesbrough for 36 years (my whole life). I’m glad I got out when I did. Wouldn’t like to think I’d be bringing my daughter up around there now. Funnily enough, I lived next door to the person who murdered Barbara Dunne’s son with an ornamental samurai sword for a brief period when he was released from prison for his murder. He threatened me with a kitchen knife on my front door step, but I had no idea who he was at the time. Not until the police told me anyway. Clearly a reformed character.

[@rahuldahoob]

Which country do you live in now? Roy chubby brown also left Middlesbrough

[@Riotwebs]

i'm 15 being raised here, not a roadman never touched drugs, but its absolutely full of smackheads

[@leonward8357]

@@rahuldahoobAmerica.

[@thebesttheworst2277]

Why did he threaten you? Was he just that unhinged type and quick to anger. Glad you got yourself out and raising your Daughter somewhere better, good man. 👏👌

[@thebesttheworst2277]

​@@RiotwebsGood lad, stay on the right path and keep yourself safe young'n, when you're a little older you'll be able to choose where you live ... hang in there for now. 👍

[@bradley7487]

I live in Whitby which is 30 mile south along the coast from Middlesbrough after watching this... I am scared

[@korrin897]

These volunteers are fantastic

[@Riotwebs]

15, live in Boro, never done drugs, never will carry a knife about. Disgusting

[@Nameless_TF]

17 same thing every time i go to college i look around and just wish i was never born into this place

[@Riotwebs]

@@Nameless_TF Broo dw we'll get out, college is a great start

[@swag12344]

@@Nameless_TF You should be glad you were born and turned out better. It'll do you some good to have a more positive outlook.

[@zachdods]

Proud of you mate

[@Agman.P]

Lovely to read lads, keep up the top work

[@boldertash]

Young lads can no longer speak English anymore.

[@veronicacrabtreehill6608]

When these bastards are arrested WHY cover their faces up ? Let people see who they are and be aware of them.

[@JTB-di8yj]

They never could speak English in Middlesbrough

[@patricksmith4424]

​@@JTB-di8yjyeh, this comment asked for that reply!

[@abstraqtphilosophy7357]

​@@JTB-di8yja predominantly White City in the UK can't speak English? Ain't that just hilarious? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@benedictearlson9044]

They wouldn't do the interview other than anonymously, get a grip. ​@@veronicacrabtreehill6608

[@scoonboon]

I lived in Middlesbrough from 2015-2018. We were burgled and had our car stolen. Had gangs of kids banging on our door nightly and threatened at local shops. I truly believe I’d of been stabbed or worse had we stayed there. All because I wasn’t from Middlesbrough.

[@ProxyGamingPG]

Worked in Holme House, a safe-zone and free housing for all the lovely people in this vid. whilst about 60-70% of them seemed like normal people, they are troubled, but all certainly under-educated. It seems a lack of consequential understanding of the action these people take along with the lax punishment and/or lack of incentive for these people to do better, is what contributes to their primal instincts to take over and ultimately resport to crime. Crime as this is the easiest path for them to follow with the illusion it will help them 'get by'. Just to make it clear, it must be appreciated that when these people have nothing, they have 'nout to loose'. It's politics driving the crime, not the people.

[@jordanplumb5941]

Knife crime is literally the norm here. But can agree that the guy saying “stabbed me stabbed me and I thought, oh no” was very British

[@afpe609]

Not even from UK but i get so angry that the government does absolutely nothing to help all these innocent people

[@mchannel1365]

Cause there are strict human rights laws All labour advocates and judges run parallel gouv

[@Zxcvbueisn444]

The reality is this doesn’t happen in dubai so the model of zero tolerance and harsh sentences are needed.

[@snorttroll4379]

Government stands in the way of improving

[@Toonarmydee]

It’s disgusting! I live in a small town in West Yorkshire and over recent years the government have placed criminals in our town. They’ve built centres with flats full of people coming out of prison and people on drugs ect. There’s homeless people sleeping in the doorways and bushes 😢 begging for money to feed their habits. Police are non existent. The neighbouring town to us is even worse by far! Most shops are closed and bordered up and there’s hardly any English people. English people are the minority. This country is beyond help now

[@gafak47]

what race was shown in this video lmaooooo...help your own ffs!@@Toonarmydee

[@Dan-wd2yv]

the woman who said, when drugs are about and they're not legalised, there's a hell of a lot of crime has it spot on. if we want to change this epidemic we need to legalise drugs and take the power away from the criminals

[@AFamily1st-jx7mf]

Blame the privatisation, loss of industry and the closure of pits.

[@petesmart1983]

It's a massive reason teeside was a huge mining and steel area, even ship building but now everything gone huge unemployment, huge poverty as there no jobs, poverty means more crime and more turn to drugs and these drug users have kids etc

[@RadioDadJokes]

Poor parenting and a lack of responsibility are a big cause of this.

[@nogs1656]

And the government

[@TheJono1987]

I'd blame the government taking police off the streets... I used to get pulled for stop and search all the time walking around Boro.. you don't see that anymore at all... Police are scared of the youth today as they've let them get too confident

[@mickclarke5741]

Absolutely

[@jameshenderson5385]

Brought up by parents who couldn't give a toss!!

[@ChrisMaunder-jk4oy]

When there is no hope for the future it makes the parents think what's the point it's much much deeper than that

[@Dan-jg7zl]

Modern day Britain resembling Columbia. I do not have children and never will. The state of the UK is one of the reasons.

[@johnc3525]

Right on, if you truly love your kids, don't have them. Funny how they call people who don't want to have kids selfish.

[@Alex-rv1mj]

Yeh i worry about my 3 year old everyday now. This country is going down the pan...why do people wanna come here?! Started locking my car doors when i get in with my son....it never used to cross my mind, only the last couple of years

[@Englishsea24]

Unfortunately it's only the wrong types of people that want to keep having kids

[@stretfordender11]

Over population due to immigration. Newer immigrants have took jobs the native and older immigrants could have been trained in. That’s why the black Londoners have been left behind too.

[@lunesdeambiente10]

Colombia is nicer than the uk ...and no benefit system !!!stop talking bs

[@Bouchon211]

Our Cleveland is ghetto and crime ridden here in America too.

[@Wandering_Owl]

😂😂😂😂

[@austinssecretacc]

I can imagine

[@sukhvindertiwana586]

If the sentencing wasn't so lenient then there wouldn't be so much crime in the country. People are not afraid because they are out in no time.

[@MakinaMakinaMakina]

As a Middlesbrough man I’m disgusted with how rundown and bad our area has got

[@boxtershaitan]

Same with Peterborough, in last 6 years got so bad with everything. And its going down

[@masudahmed6029]

​@@boxtershaitanI used to go boro all the time. I am from. Cambridge

[@Will-it1px]

Why aye pet

[@christopherjones4789]

Live in Norwich. No way I'm ever going up to that shite hole.

[@masudahmed6029]

@@christopherjones4789 Norwich and Yarmouth nice area I used to raving on prince of Wales road and atalntis arena

[@djmastergroove946]

What a cesspit. This country is beyond repair! Our great grandfather's fought for this once beautiful Britain and now look it. Absolute disgrace!

[@nogs1656]

Not to spoil your idea of the past but it’s never been beautiful mate. Maybe if you’re rich and white. Poor areas end up like this because the conditions they are placed under based on mostly societal disadvantages. Our government is mostly to blame. Our county has always been bad and areas like this have always been here

[@steveo4991]

The country our great grandparents fought for was much more crime ridden and stabby. It took until 2019 for London to beat WWII levels of knife crime… And guess who raised the current generations? That’s right, the very same boomers you’re talking about. Give it a rest.

[@nastykash9557]

@@steveo4991stabbings was not high during world war 2 that’s a load of bull. Crime rate didn’t hit hard until 1980s-1990s during to stats. Then again stabbings wasn’t even high during those times either since guns was more attainable apparently during those times so it was either fist fights or Shootouts. There was a lot of physical crime but it was more of group fights and fist fights or weapons such as bats.

[@steveo4991]

@@nastykash9557 Yeah the 2019 stat of “knife crime in the UK hit its highest levels since WWII” was just part of muh conspiracehhhhhh. Flap your gums somewhere else, nobody’s buying.

[@khadijahbegum3546]

​@@steveo4991exactly these big boomers have the audacity😂🤦‍♀️

[@robsonbobson7839]

old mate saying unfortunately he got stabbed 11 times is an absolute waste of oxygen

[@rossicourvosi218]

Imagine almost losing your life to a absolute peanut like him

[@user-wx8ll7ts6t]

@@rossicourvosi218him and the guy 2min30 in 🤣🤣🤣 what absolute peanuts. This place looks like Chav central

[@TheBearAndTheBull]

Banging on about it being peer pressure, when he was on his own and approached the person for a cigarette and then chose to try and mug them then ended up stabbing them 11 times.. aye peer pressure pal. If it's purely peer pressure he'd have left it at home and only had it on him when meeting the boys.. clearly liked carrying it.

[@rossicourvosi218]

@@TheBearAndTheBull he seems like his parents are related, the lights are on but no ones home.

[@leedixon4277]

I think we should be embarrassed. People died fighing for this country, and look what its turned into. I feel embarrassed anyway. This country needs to be cleaned up.

[@toxouroglouacidouiskia612]

2:52 my bruv's rocking the bush like a champ right there 👍👍

[@spotoncam3640]

Why BBC is roaming around the world and reporting nonsense of other countries, while their own backyard is rotting 😂

[@martinhayes2273]

🤣

[@user-je7yx7mr1s]

These people have been colonizing the world to make it "more civilized." 🙂

[@Mcfc2Rich]

BBC isn't the worst part. Our government sending 100 millions in foreign aid/supporting wars when their own citizens can't afford homes

[@HellSpawn88]

Because the world is bigger than britian

[@jubernardi23]

@@HellSpawn88🤡

[@stephenskinner3851]

So how is the De-Industrialisation and conversion to a service industry economy going? Add in mass immigration and the open borders allowing drug and people traffickers to do as they please with this country.

[@matthewbacon5734]

It's horrific, Vote Reform my friend. If they don't get in at least you tried and tell your friends to do it too.

[@beaterbikechannel2538]

​@matthewbacon5734 will do. remember when people had some kind of future to aspire to? Anything to change this

[@Ole-sf4ps]

Dont you realise this is all orchestrated

[@smallfeet4581]

The fact the young don't realise they are being targeted , how crazy are they being treated like that and letting it happen to them , have they no balls or gumption to stand up to those who want to see their demise , 🤷 , thick as mince

[@33Crazydude]

Indeed, we can thank thatcher and Reagan for Neoliberalism - the ideology at the root of all our problems

[@harxix998]

This behaviour is so normalised in the UK sadly, Ive been terrified coming home and seeing, weird people harassing me and others, druggies screaming and over a gang coming to stab a lad in my street,it's scary here, they don't have shame or any human decency

[@hassannariman]

There are few factors handcuffs are policing system:1- lac of manpower.2- too much paper work.3- court judgments too soft on criminals.prisons are college for further criminal education. What can we do to safe country and community? 1-2 years military service who leave schools for no further education 2- lower further education enrollment fees for home students like before 80s. 4-tough on crims and criminals.

[@boranbkk4270]

This is fruit of Tony Blair’s 1997 dystopian view for the future.

[@joshmc832]

His mate looking thinking u sosage

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

Why bring Blair into it if anything he transformed our town center from a dump into a modern town I remember the first year labour got In Huyton got a new library a new McDonald's a new bus terminal and completely transformed so he was good from 97 to 2001

[@diorocks5858]

Margaret Thatcher privatization of housing! If you want to get out you cant, there's no where to go, you cant take the job you will never be able to afford the rent. Its going to get worse the Country is gone. People do drugs there stuck as rents to high and pay is to low there's no future for many.

[@lilyflower91]

​@user-tx1rr3rb1q Oh wow a new McDonalds! What a treat! Definitely makes up for the rest of the sh!t he did whilst in power.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

you think it was all roses before that? throughout the 80s and 90s, gun violence spiralled out of control, one because many guns were legal and two, cocaine business exploded across the globe. wouldn't conservatives be to blame for all that? privatising housing, shutting down all the mining towns? surely that amount of pressure and poverty put onto someones life would have a bigger impact lol.

[@MrMarkhall1]

Broken Britain 🇬🇧 💔 😢

[@sonnytopboy4975]

Mu slim Britain more like

[@Cookieman524]

​@@sonnytopboy4975What's Islam got to do with this?

[@richard00langdon]

✝️

[@HellSpawn88]

I'm moving to Iraq, less likely to be a victim of crime

[@aaykay4060]

@@sonnytopboy4975yeah that champ with the unsheathed knife was as English as they get. But your xenophobia is clearly showing.

[@edwinswennen3779]

I used to spend my holidays travelling through South England, Wales, Scotland (the hebrides) with a rucksack, about 45 years ago. Now I'm not keen to go back. First of all we need passports now. But I have never been to the northeast. I do remember one thing though. I was 19 or 20 and I went to a discothèque in Exmouth on Christmas Eve, there was a fight between two men. One "bobby" walked in. Suddenly you could hear a pin drop. The fight was over. But in those days I didn't hear the word drugs, stabbing or killing. I felt safe. I travelled by train and hitchhiked through Great Britain. People communicated with each other, no smartphones, no social media. People read newspapers. I spent some time with a host family in Exmouth, later they moved to Wimborne. They were retired but Phil (Phillis) had an extra job selling ice-cream to make ends meet. Even in the "seventies" they told me another war should break out to make people aware they needed each other. Only words, I thought. But they really meant it. One thing is for sure: the only ones profiting from wars are the war industry companies. Bye for now. In the mean time, don't worry, be happy, don't drink too much and don't take drugs. Smoking is also a bad habit. Warmest regards from Belgium (retired school teacher and grandfather) Edwin 😎

[@jchendrix]

Sadly most of Britain is like this now, very dangerous, high crime levels huge poverty rates with 1 in 5 people in the country starving and having to visit food banks according to the governments on statistics. Great Britain is wreaked because of mismanagement from the Government for far to long. A replacement government is needed asap to repair the damage if Britain is salvageable at all.

[@lilyanaharforde3374]

Illegal immigration is to blame as well... Hundreds are entering Dover alone every single day and have been for years. If anyone thinks that this won't affect your way of life then you are very much mistaken.

[@Adam-sd2ow]

The guy who murdered someone seems scarily nonechalant.

[@G4RY1159]

That's the world we now live in, such people hold more value towards a mobile phone than another human life

[@somethinglikeanonymous1773]

He needs to be deported.

[@LilyGazou]

Three teenagers stole a car from a grandmother- she was trapped by her seatbelt and was dragged to her death- her arm was torn off. New Orleans, in daylight.

[@c3pno]

​@@LilyGazou lucky, could of been both arms

[@jjr1728]

​@@LilyGazoushe won't do that again

[@tudorDaDefender]

Uk law literally says if u get caught with a knife on the street you’re gonna do 4 to 10 years in prison. I’ve literally seen police stop people, find knives on them, and told them “if i catch you again with something like this on ya, you’re going to jail”

[@imhotepheru436]

Criminal name Khyre stabbed victim in tomach in Soton, luckily victim survived, Khyre got only two years sentence. After serving Kyre moved to Birmingham, within a year he stabbed another victim to death over £50 dispute, Khyre serving 22 years sentence, I think he'll serve 11 years because it's day and night 🤔

[@carlavanda1585]

Jails are bursting

[@tsimpson318]

@@carlavanda1585we don’t deter criminals because of lax sentencing and maybe because for some disaffected youths they are better placed to be than the streets anyway

[@tudorDaDefender]

@@carlavanda1585 so what’s your solution?

[@carlavanda1585]

@@tudorDaDefenderthe data suggests that imprisonment increased not because crime rates have increased significantly over the past couple of years, but because sentencing has toughened up over 2023 to meet electoral goals. Meaning lower turnover rates, when budget wasn't proportionally allocated resulting with prisons overflowing, lacking resources and staff (hardly a ground for social reintegration.) Actually, with our budget deficit increasing from a comfortable +1% in the early noughties to be well under -10% currently, we now deal with the domino effect of progressive cuts on education, health, housing, etc over the past 2 decades. Meaning that gen Z has been harshly affected, especially in deprived areas. IMO, this contributes for the UK now having the highest imprisoning rates of West Europe. Increasing sentencing is like pruning the weed instead of treating the root causes. It's a measure that, by itself, is unsustainable. But nobody really cares.

[@jesusalcazar8779]

Much love T Side from Cali

[@mileschurch67]

The most dangerous place in Britain: The Houses of Parliament

[@markstarmer3677]

Anyone without a bona fide reason for carrying such a weapon should get a mandatory jail sentence.

[@mssdn8976]

Get caught carrying a knife should equal 5 years in prison, no plea deal, no mental health excuse by their solicitors, do not pass go, straight to prison

[@lizziestevenson9345]

Jail's are full. Young people need role models, guidance and a future which is difficult to imagine for too many. Back to Thatcher days when I left school I'm afraid - no hope no future. I was lucky but not so too many I left school with. Never worked, drug addicts, jail or dead. Terrifying to see it all happening again on steroids. Just thankful I've no kids 😢

[@markstarmer3677]

​@lizziestevenson9345 I left school in the Thatcher years. I and many of my mates got real jobs, apprentice electricians, plumbers, mechanics etc. You had a few interviews, done your homework etc. There was more of a discipline to succeed then I think. These days, most kids think work will come to them with little effort, or do useless degrees at uni. There is a sence of entitlement these young people seem to believe in, because parents don't seem to put the imput into their kids, and never say no to them. There is plenty of work about, it's a case of getting off your arses I'm afraid.

[@BlueSkyCountry]

@@mssdn8976 We should have mandatory indoor CCTV in every home wired directly to the police station. Everything will be monitored. If you are getting dressed about to leave the house and you try to sneak a weapon under your clothes, the police will see it before you even leave your door. Only those with dishonest intent care about things like "privacy". If you have nothing to hide, there is nothing to be afraid of. The State can do no wrong. Everything they do is for our own good and we should learn to grovel and be grateful.

[@alexdawson1203]

You do realise that you're advocating for anyone who wants to defend themselves to be thrown straight in prison right? Maybe people wouldn't carry if the streets were safe to walk, not to mention how much power you'd be giving to the government.

[@TJ34644]

Nightmare for that poor guy in the phone shop- he needs to get a smoke cloak

[@gogogeegee76]

How bleaker can it get!? Sorry for those kids having to grow up in such an area.

[@joyridesham]

Breakdown of families, religion,parenting, manners, no aspirations, no goals, all the evil of society widespread, drugs, alcohol ., prostitution. What a sad state the working class white and poor are in .

[@BRUTAL199]

Working class 😂

[@nobodyanderson4353]

I was talking to an 18 year old and asked her what she wanted to do with her life. Her answer was I'm hoping to get PIP because I've got autism.

[@BRUTAL199]

@nobodyanderson4353 We had to take my sister out of secondary school in London 15 years ago because the students were constantly bullying her for wanting to get an education. Their mentality was "get your parents to kick you out when you're 16). You will stay in a hostal doing what you like until you get a council flat and benefits, more money if you get pregnant. You will never have to work. Only mugs are slaves to the system. The lack of respect they had for teachers was diabolical. Most stunk of weed and came from benefit families. 15 years later, you see these ex students online. Half a dozen kids from different fathers, looking 20 years older than they are moaning about benefit cuts,and the everything they don't get for free anymore, especially their overcrowded flats 🤷‍♀️

[@greni7472]

​@@BRUTAL199The cuts to benefits was mostly a good thing. The criminal or drug dependent lifestyles of many are subsidized by the taxpayer.

[@Lolife86]

The famous white privilege.

[@netsurfer007]

As a Londoner this is not what I was expecting. Damn you mainstream media, you fooled me again!

[@chayfebruary9252]

They always say London is worse than everywhere else because it has the most diversity!

[@tonyadams8812]

💯

[@davess61]

I moved from the North east to London ten years ago and I feel a lot safer here. The Middlesbrough area was always as rough as hell but it looks like it's getting worse

[@HibeeMcbee]

@@chayfebruary9252 it is.

[@ph8077]

@@chayfebruary9252 South London is much worse.

[@petesmart1983]

Mass poverty, highest council tax, high unemployment, huge drug problems but its nothing new when i was a teen in thr 90s we had the same problems but we had alot of police , but massive cuts during Cameron reign which caused crime to explode in our area

[@seanstewart8942]

😂 that's shop owners comment had me creased. " only one option left, build a bunker then nobody coming in" 😅

[@truthsearcher596]

Hilarious when "reporters/journalists" report on this and seem shocked, goes to show how out of touch and distant some people are.

[@johnc3525]

Maybe they're not from that area?

[@Andygb78]

@@johnc3525 I think on a Talk TV salary that's highly likely to be the case.

[@krob2327]

@@Andygb78yeah this all seems a bit exploitative and sneering

[@mariemccann5895]

No, it called journalism, you are the one out of touch if you can't see that. Nobody is interested in a report couched in the terms of there is nothing unusual to see here.

[@MBM1260]

No, they're not out of touch. Do you see this sort of thing in Linthorpe, Acklam or Yarm? Not really, so unless someone is from the area and goes out at night, they won't see this and the same goes for every major town and city.

[@TrashNJ]

Yo!! This is funny as hell. The worst neighborhood in this Doc is nice side where I’m from.

[@GKSC]

They don't need to go to the worst places... why risk their sht to make a point? Nobody likes journos... never know what lies they'll publish next. All part of the same problem.

[@light2990]

Love to see my home town in the spotlight :)

[@Jkk55]

We all now live in a lawless society 😥

[@vonbeedle554]

wrong. if anything laws are ramping up, and not in a good way.

[@splitter7376]

​@@vonbeedle554 Yes you and the one person who agrees with you 😆

[@vonbeedle554]

@@splitter7376 millions of people oppose authoritarianism bro what are you on? 😂

[@smiler3767]

⁠@@splitter7376 You say that in all seriousness and spite while having a goofy ass pic of pikachu as your profile. wake tf up 🤦‍♂️

[@jackodriscoll3817]

The measures that phone shop owner has to take is just insane,hopefully he gets some sort of justice.

[@justastulpe3265]

what else to expect in a country with no law! robber brakes into your house and you can`t even touch him, cause you`ll go to jail yourself 🤣🤣

[@Ohionews666]

“Its Great Britain, not that great” 😂 that caught me off guard

[@genigee]

Broken families broken communities

[@m.haslam8495]

That's the core reason.

[@dutchgilmore3567]

Being from the trenches in Toronto and dealing with addicts my whole life, I can tell the issue isn’t gang culture in Cleveland, but the use of drugs at an early age is causing these people to be violent. Addicts are some of the most spontaneous people, untrustworthy people that’ll do anything for a quick come up.

[@junkybabes]

Its not drugs, it prohibition... pretty much sponsor's organised crime.

[@KBWRER]

I lived on the estates shown in Middlesbrough, there’s no simple one reason as to why these places are like this. We need to work as a country to make it easier for people to escape this way of life

[@kyberite]

yup, keeps prices high and the competition on edge, literally @@junkybabes

[@artemiseritu]

​@junkybabes they tried "safe injection sites" in Vancouver. All that happened was the existing druggies took more drugs, and the number of users increased dramatically. It's not just the law that's the problem. It's that the government I'd taxing people to the point where one person can't stay home. The number one cause of divorce is money issues. If the government would just f' off, people would be happier, wealthier, and less likely to do drugs.

[@CheshireCat6639]

Well said👏👏..true imho too💯😞