Youth crime: dramatic rise in ‘threat to life’ notices by UK police

Children as young as 14 are receiving rare notices from the police warning them that they are at risk of being murdered or serious harm - known as threat to life notices.
Channel 4 News can also reveal that the number of such notices being issued has risen dramatically in many parts of the country.
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[@awesomeavenger2810]

It's sad that these kids have been brainwashed into thinking you need social services to help keep you out of crime. That being a criminal makes you a victim. The former gang member, Jennifer Blake, knows that the problem isn't the government or the police. But a culture of victimhood, excuses, cynicism, and a complete lack of taking responsibility for your own actions.

[@firstname4865]

Awesome Avenger so true

[@drumandbass9548]

Very true

[@drumandbass9548]

They want it all on a plate

[@barp94]

this is why i dont go outside

[@shinobi9612]

Why was the presenter surprised when the teenagers said they wanted more police on the street. The reason why we have these gang issues is due to lack of beat police & stop & search is must nowadays.

[@MrKwodsonikpunk]

How come no one mentions the parents, where are they in this, are they not responsible?

[@seanmcinerney3626]

No fathers. Angry mum's

[@howey935]

Poverty and lack of prospects werent mentioned once.

[@firstname4865]

Howzer The man what stopped them becoming a plumber or cleaner?

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

There's always been poverty and a lack of opportunity. IT Doesent excuse people acting like Animals. Going around with knives and guns..I'm 70 and was brought up in poverty. But I had respect for people in the area I lived.You make your own way in life.I come from nothing but live a comfortable life now But it took a lot of blood sweat and tears getting there.

[@garymorgan75]

In my opinion in inner-city London council estates it’s more black young men then white young man

[@AJT86]

Probably because POCs are more disadvantaged on the whole.

[@Parkerlee1000]

Its all races and all ages, dont just pick out the black on black crime cos its in the news more often, its happens with every walk of life

[@joznnerandle8838]

@@AJT86 in todays culture they are treated no differently regarding entitlements to financial support! fun fact: in my hometown UK how the majority of people 90% + sleeping rough on the streets are actually white in a predominantly mixed race area!

[@TheRealHarsjan]

Where are the parents?

[@donsong9958]

Kids don't listen to nobody

[@ivgotballsofsteel4048]

smoking crack

[@guitarstaraces746]

Introvert Outside Actually they can! They can pick their children up after school and make them do their homework and study hard for exams, they can get them into hobbies that don't include hanging out on the streets at 11pm listening to grime music! If a parent don't know where the children are or getting up to they are bad parents lol

[@kieran8349]

It’s not the parents folt it’s hard for the parents they go through loads

[@TheLion-pi8ow]

Busy chasing money

[@mbPhase23]

A lot of these kids feel like they're on the outside of society before they're even in their teens. Lost in education, bad home life, no direction, no understanding of what life should or could be. That feeling can manifest in anger and anti social behavior. A hatred of what they feel can never be theirs and no understanding of how to change life for the better. Magnify that with gang life and knife crime and you've got a terrible mess. I feel so bad for these kids.

[@BellEndBrass]

2nd generation of feral children.

[@MoreThanPeak1]

15:37 onwards👌🏾🎯 she was spot on. Put the resources in the right places

[@MrKwodsonikpunk]

I cant help thinking that if parents did their job in the first place, these poor children wouldn't be in this mess!

[@adriansolomon6805]

30 years ago we were told not to smack our children and to not be too concerned with discipline this opened the doors to disrespect and misbehaviour. At that time my son was 14 years old and said to me that I was not allowed to smack him and would report me if I did! Incidentally, I have never smacked my kids as I have always taken the time to listen and help them. None of my kids have been in trouble with the law and also raise their kids in a similar manner to me. They all have working parents and respect their elders. It's a fact that single parent families are often disfunctional and usually have at least one child that has autism or behaviour problems. It's not racist by observing that the kids in this video are all black! Black people are killing each other!

[@arzn253]

Fork crime? Spoon crime? This is primary school nonsense, such ridiculousness. It's some of these films that encourage it.

[@worldgonemad8622]

Are you really in this world???

[@donsong9958]

Why nobody take about the government, giving all the rights to the kids.

[@donsong9958]

Parents can't even talk to their kids, without getting into problem. What do you expert.

[@joznnerandle8838]

you cant even string a coherent sentence together on youtube so no hope of communicating discipline to kids!

[@donsong9958]

@@joznnerandle8838 if that's your problem, who cares.

[@barrysmith1651]

Where is that bus stop at the start ?

[@timpricedrums]

Being at the top of the social hierarchy amongst developed nations means one thing. Inviting millions of people from less socially developed parts of the world can only reduce the overall quality of life for everyone else. My parents and their parents and generations going back, fought and died to help make us the country we were. Now our altruism will destroy us all.

[@davebardo8122]

its not a racial problem....its a race problem....

[@evanhardt9368]

Can someone pls tell me what he or they sat at 3:47 ?

[@LeeKirkman88]

Older people can remember the poverty in london before and after the war, Conditions where much much worse and nobody picked up a knife and killed some one. 20 years ago there was no knife crime pandemic in London or anywhere else so whats happened since then??

[@ivgotballsofsteel4048]

if they stab someone send them packing

[@laurentiutopliceanu1036]

Double, triple the prison sentences. Get them scared of jail

[@user-ku1np8bs8n]

Nobody even mentioned poverty. That’s the root cause in my opinion

[@SI-cd7xs]

it isn't. London is the richest area in western europe, cornwall the poorest. heard of the cornwall gang epidemic? lol. me either.

[@damilolaadebisi7053]

It’s not poverty it’s upbringing “charity begins at home”

[@DK-gw9jk]

CapiTen10 Its poverty within a rich area. Living with rich people makes people want money.

[@awalabdulnoor]

It is inbred from the day they are born, bad parenting, parents were gangsters n drug dealers n they want their kids to follow in the same tracks, punish the parents, I have lived in various areas, roads n streets, including the one I live in now, where parents are raising “gangsters” n “drug dealers”

[@awalabdulnoor]

Bumbaclart blud u call me stupid? me ah bust yo head uno fam

[@michaelalali-goodnews3154]

The speeches at 12.20 and 16.03 are just 🔥. Its a community issue first and then put the resources in the right place!

[@WarblesOnALot]

G'day, Apparently, it is not the brave individuals who arm themselves but the scared, the unconfident, the anxious ones with low self-esteem ; likely they're ones who never recieved enough Cuddles, back when they were supposed to be being Breastfed....(?). The concept that "The State" has an obligation to prevent all Crimes from occurring is completely invalid..., what "The State" has an obligation to do is to pursue and arrest and try those alleged to have committed a Crime - and to do that with sufficient dogged determination that everybody understands that, in the long run, nobody ever "gets away with" anything....; because as Geoffery Chaucer put it, in The Nuns' Priest's Tale, "Modre will Out..., Modre WILL Out !", as the Karmic Feedback-Loops within the Kosmic-Scoreboard Effect inexorably even the Slate - in the long run. The only people who genuinely "feel a need" for ever harsher Laws and longer Sentences, and openly Fascist PoLice-State Protocols ("Random Stop & Search", Warrantless 'Phone-Taps & Internet Surveillance, Arrest & Detention without Charge, indefinite extension of Prison Sentences without Trial, etcetera etcetera, ad infinitum, ad nauseum...) are those utterly Godless Atheists who cannot bring themselves to trust their Sacred Laws of blindly cascading Chaotic Chance to keep themselves safe ; and therefore they vote to spend other people's Taxes to fund an endless system of Spies and Thugs and Armed Enforcers to detect and combat and suppress and defeat and arrest and imprison whatever Paranoid Persecution Fantasies the quivering Godless Coward can dream-up, of which to be permanently terrified. Oh, ye, of LITTLE Faith.... I habitually carry a folding Lock-Knife with a 4-inch Blade, in a belt-Pouch, both because that way it can be accessed and opened one-handed (while the other hand holds the measured bit of String etc, to be cut...) ; but more importantly, the fact that the Knife is carried visibly means that any Charge of "Carrying a Concealed Weapon" is impossible to prosecute - because clearly the Knife is being carried as a Tool, not hidden for use as a possible Weapon. Here in NSW, Australia, it's illegal to possess a Knife within School Grounds, and it's illegal to "weild a Knife in a Public Place...", so in a Restaurant the customers may legally use Steak-Knives to eat with, but it's an offence if they wave the Blades at each people in any kind of a threatening manner...; it's lawful to possess ANY Knife if it is "for the preparation of Food..." (so walking around with a sheathed Samurai-Sword, or a Cavalry Cutlass, is perfectly permitted in Public Places, so long as one is also carrying a Watermelon and claims to be on the way to a Picnic...!), whereas meanwhile, a 1-inch Folding Blade on a "Rape-Whistle" type of Necklace-Pendant is a totally illegal Weapon - BECAUSE IT HAS NO POSSIBLE PEACEFUL PURPOSE, and because it is being carried expressly for the purpose of cutting and stabbing some other HUMAN BEING who is yet to be identified (ie the bearer is going Armed, with the full intention to commit an Assault upon a person, or persons, unknown). It is not the size nor style of the Blade which determines it's Legal Status, y'see, but rather it's the intentions in the mind of the person who is in possession of the Knife which matters... I'm a Vegetarian, and therefore I might want to skin an Apple so thus I carry a Knife, similarly, a Meateater might want to skin a Rabbit so they too may carry a Knife with which to prepare Food ; but if I was a cowardly paranoid Fantasist, and if I carried the same Knife in the identical Belt-Pouch, just(ifiably ?) so as to be able to pull it out and chop any hypothetical adversaries or attackers into unthreatening lumps of Mincemeat..., then it would be a Prohibited Weapon - because of what it was intended to be used to achieve. Waiting until your Economy is unravelling, and then noticing that there's a whole generation of insecure anxious and otherwise aimless Angry Young Suburbanites who're all so scared of each other that they're trying to concealed-carry a Jim-Bowie Fantasy in order to feel a little bit braver in the Valley of the Shadow of the shattered Streetlamps...; and then responding by setting the Gendarmerie to harrass the entire neighbourhood - it seems like a highly counterproductive response to a deepseated problem which has it's roots in the piss-poor parenting which has become Pandemic since the advent of Television stopped people from paying attention to their Children, 50 or 60 years ago. Such is Life... Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !

[@dragoneatingspastic5398]

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[@lexuspanther]

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[@Fowley1953]

WarblesOnALot Good people have to be protected from bad people. Warble as much as you like. Prison has been thought through.

[@alexandroo7631]

this is the post stamp perspective.we are only shown the size of a stamp on an anvelope.

[@b1unknown257]

Lol that's Edmonton green at the beginning

[@candicejones4049]

More police on the streets and when I say more I mean more. The British police need to take a trip to Rwanda. Its a police state. Police are everywhere with guns and they are not joking. Prison must mean punishment Those who need help should get it. Those who show no remorse should have their faces rearranged before they even get to court and that's just for starters. Criminals must be petrified of prison. Parents take responsibility and keep your kids off the streets. The gov't needs to put resources into these communities. They have got to start funding these small community groups.

[@mybad.7164]

A poor kid was stabbed in rochdale this week

[@worldgonemad8622]

Poor kid?? what do you mean?

[@apeman6703]

wheres your mummy and daddy

[@francismausley7239]

Preventative education must play a role.... "The body politic should instead strive night and day, bending every effort to ensure that souls are properly educated, that they progress day by day, that they advance in science and learning, that they acquire praiseworthy virtues and laudable manners, and that they forsake violent behaviour, so that crimes might never occur." ~ Baha'i Faith

[@davebardo8122]

where are these kids parents????

[@BellEndBrass]

9:32 - very muddy waters -really? He's a criminal not a victim.

[@logomoniclearning6680]

They need boot cap

[@lawrenceprentice8853]

There is one lesson that is taught in school's which has a lot to answer for . That lesson is the History class . LAWMAN .

[@theboringdays4169]

It’s not just teenagers I’m only 12 and I know people my age and younger who carry knives

[@sank4583]

I remember those old fashioned films where they'll be wearing striped black and white clothes. The prisoners will be doing hard manual labour. This is what they need!

[@alidavis6388]

I think the music has a big influence if you can ban artist music that talks about violence against one section of the community why cant all music that talks about violence against any group or individual be banned?

[@stayalive576]

So shall we ban all the movies and series like Top Boy too? If people are so ignorant that dont see between reality and fiction is show that basically are "brainwashed"...therefore my question is, if me and you can see the difference and they dont, could be that the issues is ignorance rather than the music or movie? With ignorance come poverty, you cant afford the good things living on benefits...you hungry u want to get money, money comes easily by selling drugs. You become a gang member, making money and now you can afford things but likely u loose life...

[@Zelousfear]

They should make violence illegal, that would help. They obviously care about the law.

[@charismynigga1040]

The woman even said they wait for things to get bad then chuck money at it like its some circus show. Stop and search so u can confiscate their money more like. Every time they talk about community and youth clubs suddenly the subject changes. Then your back to blaming parents, whatever the case it's too late if there's 20 in a gang and 1 fed doing neighbourhood watch.

[@SD-vm9po]

I am mad at being stop and search but well needed so I'm ok with it

[@0xstev3]

Jennifer seems like she knows what she's talking about. I cannot stand those so stereotypical politicians.

[@michaelalali-goodnews3154]

Of course she knows what she is talking about. She was a gangster herself.

[@Homeschoolsw6]

Yeah shits bad when Police are issuing " threat to life " notices.

[@shokosugi561]

Cut all the Police and their resources.. Soft touch Britain...

[@wrathmachine7609]

Taking away supply affect the demand very little. Take the demand away and supply just vanishes away

[@joznnerandle8838]

and how do you magically remove this demand? if you can't cut off the supply?

[@JordanjamesX]

These discussions refuse to ask the tough questions. Why are some black parents irresponsible? Where is the accountability?

[@richardappiah8850]

Why doesn’t the government just introduce curfews on teenage delinquents in the inner city.

[@zososierp]

More youth centres....

[@dawndean1134]

If the police on their jobs and when you call them instead of saying nothing like and do they have their hands tied maybe there be less crime on the street if they actually took action people that carry and nice for their own protection because the law does not help them you ever phone for a police officer you tell him it's an emergency request you over the phone for hours and then you have to go into a queue and you get the same old story the lines busy at the moment they keep you waiting on the phone for a long time and it's not free and then after half an hour they save you would like us to call you back no we need help now we've had threats made to us and due to the police not taking action houses get burnt down they were worn 3 days beforehand they feared for their safety it's so lucky she was rescued by the fire and they take the word of criminals they said they know who's committed the crime no he didn't commit the crime he got paid to to say it was him and the police know it and instead of working to solve it they just say there's not enough evidence if they would have knocked on the doors there was evidence a man saw the two youths pick up the two bags go into that building and come running out he thought it was strange when you tried telling the police that they tell you to shut up go away otherwise you'll be arrested and case is closed and then they want to know why people fear walking the streets why they carry knife because they are victim some of them and they're afraid

[@trueheartsunite6814]

wake up ...you are so wrong !!!one more option with respect and worth given to the youth ,they will put their knifes down with open arms by changing their mentality that is your key

[@simonoconor8149]

Oh no they're going to ban knives, I better start learning how to use a spoon for everything. The gangs will start to use other utensils: headlines :- many injured in mass ladle horror.

[@vojamarksi6031]

doomed

[@error-ji1le]

what do we think is the common denominator~?

[@lowesephmoto7684]

YOUTH CLUBS FUCKING CALLED IT

[@alisonhilll4317]

I saw a film Somalis are sending their children to Somalia because it is safer , if that is the case there is no war there so the refugees can go home , that might just stop knife crime , because before they came there were about one stabbing a week .

[@stayalive576]

This comment is nonsense... Knives and gangs in London is not a new thing...nowdays is just escalating!! Unlikely immigration is the main cause...poverty,ignorance, lack of education or role model to follow those are the main issues

[@karlosthejackel69]

It’s not rap music or single mothers, it’s genetics

[@dawndean1134]

No is a bigger issue to knife crime Alex getting to the stage whether public don't have faith in the police anymore because when the police are called if they turn up there's nothing they can do most of these youngsters fear for their safety and the very people who supposed to help them let them down got a carry knife for their own protection it's a well-known fact that's why a lot of people are afraid to venture out

[@tomfw5662]

Okay so people want the police to tackle knife crime. And they moan at all their tacktics. Instead of mosning how it wrong, state other ways that they coukd try. Because if stop and search wasnt a thing. How would they get the knifes of people. Have little check points with metal detectors coming out every estate?

[@peterallison4464]

Get the house of lords involved they will sort it out: such an effective government institution.

[@arelledaley3028]

Hey I think ur a punk

[@gloriacollins2032]

today's news

[@robertfowler1416]

Pointing out the blatantly obvious here but if these kids parents and grandparents had just intergrated properly with the native white population none of this would have happened...

[@EndtimeWatchman777]

ROFLMAO make your own knife this is stupid . I can make a knife out of any piece of metal .

[@ivgotballsofsteel4048]

young scared committing crime... lock him up

[@Jamaal4Jesus]

Stop listening to hip hop music especially the drill music.

[@hedgefundshyster..3241]

This is the difference between the white man and the black man.....

[@ronniegilbert7998]

Course the start is in Edmonton 😂😂😂

[@lizziedevine5637]

Ad hate to be from there murders everyday

[@Teadon86]

All I see are Ns acting like Ns whilst demanding gibs and blaming the White Brits.

[@abinthemix]

1a

[@markleaning107]

The root cause of this is rap music glorifying guns and knifes and gang warfare

[@stayalive576]

I ve been listen to rap music since a was a baby...did not turn me into a killer or a gang member! Actually I'm studying to become a barrister! Music is not the problem, I think education and lack of role models, poverty influenced knife crime

[@azmagaref]

@@stayalive576 You are an exception, those rap/hiphop violent music are one of the main reasons young teens that listen to them act hostile and violent. When lawless thugs are your role models in rap then you'll dress, act and join gangs like them. They glorify drug use too like weed and cocaine. MUSIC IS THE PROBLEM.

[@jhughes2302]

Let's talk about I.Q. levels amongst races lol. Hahaha hahaha. Ahahaha. I love the truth.

[@esa2616]

Jamie Hughes ded joke

[@donsong9958]

Sensual Digest who care

[@luisgorgulho9747]

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[@coxley]

Well done Brexit

[@joznnerandle8838]

oh please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@simonoconor8149]

If you're going to send a black reporter to record a story in the dark, at least provide him with adequate lighting. The only way I knew he was in the scene was because I could see his teeth moving.