When you went back in time, you didn't include women voting? Culture change, political change, the pussification of the masses? No way in hell you would have this immigration problem without that bleeding heart bullshit they vote for. Less nuclear families, less purpose for men, more discontent, more crime. But no there you are, talking about economic inequality creating crime when the UK was largely poor as hell and still is unless you are talking about just London itself.
started 60s due to moving away from traditional values which bought stability, so the deerags, xual revo, poverty it all increases mental instability and chaos
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Welp, they'll count you out as "not developed" enough to matter. No really. That's how they get to claim the US is the most dangerous place in the world. By ignoring most of the world as not good enough to matter.
Yeah, that's very high for us because the UK up until quite recently was a civilised place.....i can't put my finger on what has changed about the UK....i personally think it's old bigoted ladies upsetting people on Facebook 😐
@@alegro4046 I guess you’ve personally been and seen too all those countries and not just gone off what you’ve heard?cause you can’t be giving you’re opinion on places you’ve never experienced😂I doubt very much you’re that intelligent so give it a rest
this guy went from laidback parkour videos to full blown cultural based video essays about both important and lesser known/misunderstood issues, what a progression and what a great example of improvement
A then imagine this…I am from Prague Czech republic. Yes, I live there for my whole life but there is not a single street in Prague, that I would be scared to go on even at 3 am. But there are children (young adults) acting like there are hoods etc. influenced by czech rappers trying to be hard so they are building this narrative that Prague streets are tough (or/and influenced by music from UK/USA). So these kids started carrying knives. There is no reason for them to do so and guess what happened. The knife crime increased. One of the safest cities and they are acting like that. Utterly pathetic
My mates went to Prague. They were pulled into a strip joint, offered the services of trafficked prostitute's and when they declined where told to empty their pockets by some large men.
Ahoj, dobre den, I'd have to agree with you. Gave spent quite long periods of my adult life living in and around Prague and have never once felt any anxiety when out late or otherwise on the streets of the city. Admittedly, I've not seen the very worst or lowest income areas of Praha, but have mixed with people whose station in life and recreational tendencies would have them grouped as undesirables. Despite this, your city always felt safer and cleaner, etc, than the greater parts of many other cities that I have lived in or visited. It's a shame that the nature of globalisation and the media proliferate wrong-headed aspirations amongst impressionable people's. Naścladeno (spelled that wrong!) Ahoj
You cant solve knife crime by banning this or that because a kitchen knife is all you need. Banning swords it dumb because u can't walk around with a sword without being seen.
Yeah British people have become too craven and submissive to the Government. It's got to the point where politicians are banning every metal tool you can think of. Guess what? Criminals will attack you with a wooden club then. This pathetic banning culture Britain has is honestly strange and solves nothing. All it does is keep the common people in fear and submissiveness to the people with weapons. (Govt and Criminals).
Well they're not made by an AI because if anything they're just made by an algorithm that is fed query requests and uses existing data to create something. Even if they weren't its stupidly easy to make a themed thumbnail by cropping various imagery together to make a thumbnail.
@@_gungrave_6802 “erm… actually… it’s not ai just a complex neural network of-” SHUT UP! IT LOOKS ASS!! i don’t care what it “actually is” i care what it looks like and what it looks like is ASS. shut up, dude. everyone knows that it’s AI, that’s what everyone calls it. get over your ego before you comment next time. god.
Its a phase youtubers are going through atm..dont worry it will pass when they all start following the next thing that they think will help tge algorithm
When Glasgow was the knife crime capital of Europe and the perpetrators were white, it was seen as an issue stemming from a lack of opportunities and eduction and was treated as such with schemes and investments. Now London is synonymous with knife crime in Europe and the perpetrators are black, it is seen as a cultural and sometimes even an inherent issue with those people.
That has two sides though. On the one hand there should be oppertunity, but on the other hand we have people who are unwilling to see it as a problem because that would be racist.
I live in Wood Green, North London. Let me give it to you straight. It is a cultural thing. Whether it offends you or not. I meet a lot of different ethnicities and races. Young Black men are by far the most aggressive and violent. Other races cause crime, but it tends to be targeted on their personal enemies. If a Turk or a Polish has a beef, he keeps it in house etc. The young black boys on the other hand just go out looking to stab someone random. Half the time they kill someone, they barely even knew them. Ignoring this cultural reality is craven and dishonest. I got no hatred of blacks btw, in fact, I find the African ones to be more respectful and honest. Its the London roadmen black boys that are proper dangerous when out looking for there opps. You could just be a civilian in wrong place at wrong time, they will still cheff you.
lol, except when it's critising capitalism or margaret thatcher. Yeah all these happened because of the naughty advertisers on TV making people want stuff and Thatcher actually making the fucking economy grow for a change.
"Tough laws alone are futile, look at Mexico." - Meanwhile I'm looking at El Salvador. It appears enforcing tough laws might have some effect, I don't know.
@@pcprinciple3774you’re actually correct though. The change in our society from of one of harmony and purpose to one that craves wealth lead to more crime.
In Poland (where I live) its legal to carry any knife OR EVEN a full-sized sword. Only if: a)you carry it with intention of commiting a crime b)carry a knife on big pre-planned events like concerts, its illegal. Despite this, we don't have a knife-crime problem. Its really something cultural I guess.
I know it's just a misspelling of "without" but it's a funny concept that carrying a knife is explicitly only legal if you intend to commit a crime with it
Funny how quickly people have forgotten that the murder rate in Scotland in 2004 was 2.7 times higher than the highest it's ever BEEN in London and it's curious as to how that high murder rate was never really a talking point or a sign of societal doom in the UK as a whole, never mind internationally. I wonder why?
@@DinisF97 Novel means new and it's not new, there were razor gangs in the London in the 50's and members of the Teddy Boys youth culture were notorious for carrying and using knives as was the later skinhead culture. The only thing that keeps growing is the public's media exposure to it that's leading to confirmation bias that makes it feel novel and on the increase. The problem itself is actually decreasing having peaked in the 2017/18 police crime figures reporting year.
@@martinwilkinson7939Those are domestic problems. It's silly to compare domestic problems to imported foreign ones. One is entirely optional and the other is not. Also, it's not as if those weren't problems and no one cared. No one cares anymore because they aren't a problem anymore.
@@magicalframe9441 Well seeing as the were "imported" at a time when they weren't doing knife crime (and the vast majority of them aren't even now) then it wasn't a factor was it. And stabbings in Scotland are still a problem. They hide them in the media by calling them "slashings" (local slang) so it's harder to find stories about them (and people like you don't really care anyway if you were honest) but you can Google *Glasgow slashing* if you can be bothered. Also, the Cleveland police area in the North East of England has the second highest rate of knife crime, that problem is happening right now, but the existence of those particular stabby people in the country wasn't optional so no reason for it ever even cross your mind right?
@@martinwilkinson7939 What do you mean by "imported at a time when they weren't doing knife crime"? It doesn't matter if most of them aren't running around stabbing people. If we import 20,000 people and 100 of stab, rape, or steal (yes, I know, not real figures don't be a pedant) those crimes could have been entirely prevented by NOT importing those people. Besides, this is only one of the many consequences of mass immigration. Yes, stabbings in Scotland are a problem. Glasgow has been violent for decades. This isn't news to anyone. However it's an entirely different problem. One that isn't created directly through government policy. That is endemic to Scotland. You can't flip a switch and stop them stabbing each other. Get out of your bubble and quit acting like anyone who doesn't agree with you is an orcish demon. "People like you" my ass lol. Yes English people committing crime is also a problem, but we can't just stick them on a plane to wherever they came from. You're completely missing the point.
I lived in NW London in the 90s. It was MADNESS. If you didn't think things were crazy back then, that's just cause you were leading a sheltered life. And I will not ever worry about crime in younger generations after having had some really honest conversations with my grandparents generation in my family about what they were up to in the 1960s here in Canada. Again - if you thought people weren't robbing banks, that's cause your Grandad wasn't doing all that. It's not to say there isn't problems with crime, even amongst specific communities. But pull your knickers up - the sky isn't falling. At least not anymore lol
@@donaldkamthepha1483 Because then we’ll need to look at which demographics suffer the most from that issue, which means people will get uncomfortable and stick their heads in the sand.
He did mention high divorce rates, but very fleetingly. He didn’t mention fatherlessness in general, probably because it’s become a “dog whistle” for something else.
@@tagus100Single motherhood has gone up significantly in every race in the west (native born specifically). You're just trying to make a racist argument. It's actually the feminism that makes people/the government not want to look at the issue.
I got arrested on suspicion of possessing a bladed article. I was homeless at the time and fell asleep in a graveyard. Someone called the police and I got woken up to two officers saying "what's your name?". Given that they'd literally just woken me up, I wasn't in the most cooperative mood. I said "do I need to tell you my name if I'm not under arrest?" and he said "put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest". This shocked me, especially when he said it was for possession of a bladed article. Turns out it was because a Stanley knife I'd got for a pound from pound land had fallen out my pocket onto the grass. I was using it to cut string to make a makeshift tent because I was sleeping in the park. They took me in for 8 hours before releasing me 5 miles from where they picked me up without pressing charges and without a lift back. Whilst I was in custody they refused to give me my medication with my name clearly printed on it because "that could be anything in there mate, you could've tampered with it", and they also unravelled my entire ball of string before giving it back to me, the spiteful bastards. I had to throw it away it was so knotted. Never even threatened anyone, never mind committed a stabbing. That said, I had a knife held to my throat in a robbery when I was homeless, by a well known local scumbag. He'd set out to rob homeless people knowing there were no consequences After it happened to 3 or 4 friends I decided enough was enough. I knew where he lived and his full name, but the police wouldn't let me make a report without givibg my full name, which could very well have gotten me killed. So he got to carry on. If you think this doesn't disproportionately affect the poor I don't know what to tell you.
Thanks for sharing, I don't understand this though: 'the police wouldn't let me make a report without givibg my full name, which could very well have gotten me killed' Why could that have gotten you killed? Couldn't you have used a fake name?
Honestly bro, you hit the nail on the head. I moved to England in 2012 coming from Belgium and got tangled up in the drug trade/county lines and have been stabbed myself/lost close friends to "knife crime" and to me, it always seemed like there was less and less of it while also being more and more sensationalised. Most victims of knife crimes in London aren't white, so the general conservative societal mind instantly jumps to "these 'criminals' aren't here to contribute but to squeeze the UK of all its resources" while not realising the reason these things are happening are due to consistent, systemic neglect and deprivation, but people would rather blame the issue on the person itself here than take a step back and contextualise the whole situation. Nobody stops to think how it even got to this point, but are more than happy to point fingers and make it out like you deserve it.
@@VileCAESARBif you had the slightest bit of critical thinking skills you’d be able to put together that the percentage of the people AND the crimes are concentrated in areas that are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
It is absolutely racial/ethnic, literally in every single Western country muslims and blacks hold a monopoly on being extremely overrepresented as (violent) criminals, even in socialist utopia's like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. So the whole leftist "they're neglected, impoverished, and have little future" BS is such a massive cope and lame excuse.
The stabbings are sad but what's seemingly WAY worse are the child grooming gangs UK police ignored for years. That's legitimately terrifying. Either way, things are not trending in a good direction but it seems people's lives need to get a lot worse before any major change happens.
Unfortunately, nothing will change. Historically, we British do exactly nothing. We simply put up with whatever the ruling elite inflict on us. And they decided to abandon our city streets to the criminals. And now Labour has let all the criminals that they locked up five minutes ago free. The result will be a tsunami of crime. But that's okay. They'll be safe in their leafy shires or their gated communities
Oh, they didn't just ignore the grooming gangs. They were covering up for them, keeping the parents away from the abducted children and police officers were gladly r**ing the kids themselves. I've lived in UK for over six years. There are many things I like about the country, especially the elderly. Old time Brits are the most wonderful people in the world. But the system, the youth culture, the law, the justice system, the police and the protected class of third world immigrants makes me sick to my stomach I can't imagine living there anymore.
That's spot on, especially when gang members do things for elders a slang term for a veteran gang member most of the time these young people are groomed into a lifestyle given to them by the older gang members. And because there's less mid tier business that used to fill the high street there's less opportunity so most of the time these young people end up in parks outside sweets shops etc where they're picked up by a gang member and groomed into a lifestyle.
Around 20:00 you talk about immigration and it's relation to crime, and I think you leave out a very important fact. In Sweden for example, the non-eu imigrants are more likely to commit violent crimes than sweden-born people with swedish parents. But the worst group is the sweden-born people with non-eu born parents, especially parents from Middle East and North Africa. So we'll probably experience the results of the huge amount of people from ME/NA, that fled to Sweden around 2015, when their children becomes teenagers.
and coincidentally "in Sweden, the at-risk-of-poverty rate between 2013 and 2023 was highest among citizens born outside of the EU. It usually lay between 30 and 40 percent. The rates were significantly lower for people born in the EU or in Sweden, between 15 and 20 percent and around 11 percent, respectively."
That's because their parents have fled there with fuck all so that the kids are far less well off than their peers - it's inequality as a root cause yet again.
@@olliestudio45 You can't chalk EVERYTHING up to poverty. There is a pressing issue of people from the MENA region not integrating into Western European society.
You make a great point but of course Jimmy only hearted the reply that reinforces his view of everything bad is down to poverty. He's getting more and more mask-off with his left-wing views by the day.
21:20 WOAH, hold up, those UAE and Qatar rates are way off. In order to have an accurate m rate to begin with, you need a certain level of equality in society where all unalivings will actually be reported and counted. Unfortunately, in the UAE and Qatar there is essentially a slave labor class of migrant workers (mostly from India and SE Asia) that experiences extremely high rates of crime and death, it's simply not reported due to such workers status in society. It's been a major issue for a while, but a lot of the world started hearing about the problem when Qatar won the hosting rights to the world cup in 2021. More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were worked so hard building buildings in the desert that they lost their lives in Qatar since it won the right to host. The country still does not formally recognize these deaths are what they are; m*rders. So you just can't talk about the m*rder rates in countries with huge inequality without acknowledging that such inequality means the unalivings of the 'underclasses' are simply not counted. BTW, this also is true for countries with very high gender inequality. Lots of femicide in such countries, but those are simply not counted often.
I do always find it a bit funny when I hear Americans talking about how dangerous London due to knife crime, meanwhile they're teaching their kids what to do in case of a school shooting which is absolutely not an unlikely thing to have to prepare for over there
21:20 i was born and raised in United Arab Emirates and during friday afternoon prayer, the shopkeepers would simply put a chair in the front of the door to let people know that the shopkeeper is out praying. people would stand and wait outside for the prayers to finish and the shopkeeper to come back. at night, because its a hot country, shopkeepers would keep fruits and vegetable boxes outside in the open so they can remain cool and no one would steal it. it is because people knew the punishments were harsh. UAE is 80-90% immigrants.
this happened because we have no real self defence laws and due to that any form of defensive tool, what's the point in self defence when we cant fight of an attacker. if i was to get run up on in the streets rn and i fought back when the police get there wed both be charged. the uk has taught its people to be scared to stand up for themselves and so no one does and no one has anything to defend themselves with either. which is stupid because criminals don't care if a knife is illegal they will carry it anyway and use it anyway, so why do we the public need to walk about with no form of protection whilst criminals do what they want anyway and when or if they do go to stab us were just allowed to use fists, even a legal carry like a swiss army knife would get you charged if you used it back in self defence against someone literally trying to take your life with the same weapon. give us proper self defence rights and laws, and its simple allow everyone to be able to defend themselves with everyday carry weapons, such as 6 round revolvers for public carry, pump or barrel fed shotguns for home defence, switchblade for public carry. none of these weapons hold enough ammo or power to cause mass shootings the reload time after those 6 rounds are fired is way to long for anyone to practically use it for mass shootings same with shotguns, and guess what we can regulate what ammo is available to the public ie keep it to standard rounds in revolvers and only alow birdshot and buck shot for shotguns. and now imagine everyone has self defences right and the means to defend themselves and so people take robbing, raping and killing people a whole lot more serious because now the criminals dont know what we have a gun or a knife they have no clue. so you see people would double think doing these things in public. Obviously when you mix giving your country no self defence rights, laws or even the means to defend themselves against knife crime with also cutting pensions upping the prices for essentials and taxing us up our arses with no return when we are suffering this is what you'll get. its very simple our governments just not that smart.
people forget that a gun is a survival tool just like a knife is a survival tool. it shouldn't be so taboo the thought of defending your own life. especially when guns are the only reason people feel so free today.
@@DroolRockworm Pahahahaha do you not realise that what you just said is exactly how the UK currently is? Did everything i say go over your head? because if you had a revolver or a knife to defend yourself you would have much greater odds of living. Your completely wrong if we had real self defence laws that for one would idk MAYBE ALLOWS US TO DEFEND OUR SELFS WITH OUT HAVING TO BE STABBED OR BEATEN FIRST, would absolutely help. Here I am saying people should be allowed to defend themselves and this mongorockworm guy is like "SeLf DeFeNsE wOnT hElP" brother didn't even read the whole comment and if he did he understood none of it and still felt like he had a voice on the matter, like why are you trying to have an input on decisions you don't understand even a little bit? this is exactly why the UK is doomed to trashy laws and knife crime mixed with a public of people so brainwashed they think self defence wont help them, Because everyone has turned into a massive p*ssy with a massive mouth and a tiny brain with out the capacity to understand a structured sentence or conversation. our government has us fighting against ourselves. its honestly pathetic.
@@DroolRockworm oh boy if only a specific tool to level physical disparity and neutralise a threat from a certain distance had been invented, and made available to law abiding citizens. That would be crazy, innit?
Outstanding work looking at the timeline and origins of a very misunderstood topic, connecting some dots, and presenting some really legitimate conclusions. All your videos are great but his might be the best video you have created.
No. Giant is wrong. If you've never been in violent trouble or involved somehow and witnessed it first hand you really don't know. This is why neither the government nor police can tackle it because no one they know have been involved. Jimmy really has absolutely no idea here.
@@SuzyMoore-ob3ppthat was a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Facts and figures were presented. If you failed to understand them, maybe retry schooling?
I remember growing up New York was like the stereotypical crime filled city where you’d have a 90% chance of getting shot or robbed if you were walking in an alleyway. Now london has a higher homicide rate and knife crime rate.
Well done, one of the most nuanced analysis of the topic on TH-cam. I love how I once subscribed for the parkour content (and I'ma fat bloke taht couldnt parkour if my life depended on it) and I am witnessing your journey through subculture documentaries, that i greatly enjoyed into this. This is one of the most real, objective and nuanced documentary channels on societal issues coming out of the UK right now. I respect that a lot. Keep up the great work mate, love from Ireland.
Great research into a difficult and somewhat emotive topic. Thank you for always providing an objective view on such matters as this makes for compelling viewing. Great stuff.
Love your work my guy, you care about getting your numbers right so as someone who grew up and lives in St Louis I want you to know that the murder rate number is skewed by how the area divides itself into about 100 separate municipalities, each considered it's own reporting district by the gov't. We do have legit problems with crime, as does any metro area of over 2 mil, but the number you used is taken from an area that's incredibly poor, dangerous, and anyone with sense leaves. You can go two miles west and live in a nice area, we did. Keep up the good work!
@@WGK90it’s not as divided as the media likes to portray and also at least we aren’t arresting our citizens for what’s deemed a hateful social media post
"It's not race or foreign culture, it's inequality." "So what happens if we import hundreds of thousands of really unequal people?" "What about Mexico - they are religious and they have strict laws..." - Are you playing daft? It doesn't matter what laws you have, if you don't enforce them. What about El Salvador, is the question you should be asking. They somehow reduced their murder rate drastically. Must have some spectacular long term integration social programs in the good old El Salvador.
He says its inequality and then deliberately aggregates disparate groups together to prove a point, in other ways he is playing fast and loose with statistics as well despite claiming others are doing so.
El Salvador is an authoritarian and borderline fascist state. They addressed the problem of gang violence by imprisoning tens of thousands of people without trial. That doesn't tackle the underlying causes of crime, nor does it represent a fair and functional justice system.
Jamaica is consistantly in the top 5 murders per capita and is often No1 or No2 in the world. We imported loads of them and now have loads of murders... must be inequality.
Every third or fourth person could be innocent over there, and they make their prisons very very inhumane. If they would have built these prisons in wartime for captured soldiers, they would have hauge over their asses.
Yeah, it's mad how bad the censorship has got on TH-cam. I kept trying to type out an encounter where I young guy I knew in Wood Green got stabbed. Nothing offensive or gruesome. Just the account of a true story of a Londoner getting stabbed. TH-cam kept deleting my comment. Keeps censoring the truth when people try and tell it.
You see capitalism as a cause for young ones turning to crime, but in Sweden Malmo young refugees refused job offerings because they could make more money by selling drug. That is just one case but I'm confident that simple and fast shortcuts are why they turn to it. Culture enters the discussion here when someone's philosophy is to hustle and do it at all costs for their good, they consequently lack the foresight to see the society, especially one that they do not feel belong to.
When did capitalism stop existing in Sweden? Its semi Socialist but still has private market and a tradition of both xenophobia and eugenics... Should maybe look into the why behind some of the other stats there, like why the lower birth rates of children with conditions they can spot in utero..... There are more socio-economic than ethnicity based culture influences factoring into the larger equation than most want to accept.
@@ChickadeeBoi "It's not race or foreign culture, it's inequality." - So what happens if we import hundreds of thousands of really unequal people? "Capitalism bad."
You've literally described a problem caused by capitalism. If someone makes the decision to turn to crime to make more money, there's almost every chance that they can't make enough to support themselves on a legitimate wage, or have crippling debts or toxic expectations to live up to. How people can miss this stuff while talking about it all in the same breath is absurd. You need to re read your own comment and get a clue.
This is such a great video. As someone who regularly uses large knives for my job and for hobbies, I get concerned at the constant calls for more knife bans. Carrying a knife without a reason is already illegal, and bringing in bans on specific knives has been tried for decades and has never worked. But the gov would rather create a stupid new law rather than tackle the root cause of the issue, because as you said its expensive, and long term, and they dont want the hassle.
I'm open to hearing an immigration =/= increase in crime argument, but comparing 2020 net migration to half that nominal value from over a decade ago (or any previous year, really) and saying the rate in 2020 was lower is not a good argument given that over half the year people were in lockdown.
@@nathanw9770 You're actually right, I misheard. 2022 still started off with partial lockdowns until the Ukraine war kicked off proper in late February, but it's a far smaller period than the 2020 comparison would have been
@@OLI-vx1md tell me you haven’t studied history, sociology, geopolitics or have ever read a book that delved deep into societal and cultural issues without telling me. If anything, you have the critical thinking and deduction of a complete layman and manchild. And people like you are walking around with the ability to vote and produce offspring
@@Sajid_A829 Despite making up 13% of London's total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London's knife murder victims. Guess who's on the other end of the Knife , yep that's correct . From the Govs own stats
Imma yank that loves your vids. As a Yank we obviously have our own issues with crime and violence over here as well quite famously. But alot of people on our side of the pond have also been talking about Britians knife crime (mostly through memes if we're being honest) and I also knew about Glasgow and how the stats dont even tell half the story at the turn of the 20th into the 21st century Scotland was the most dangerous country in the entirety of the EU per capita! But like you said in the video community action and not just throwing more money at the police did the trick and crime overall went down. In the US poverty, lack of community, lack of upward mobility, mental illness, drugs and drug abuse all stew into the big pot that is crime of all types. Also as a Non-white guy Im also glad it didnt turn into a "lets blame all the problems of society on minorities" which is sadly very common these days. Keep up the great docs bro.
There is no political will nor care for this issue, the political class is so far removed they dont even really register the devastating reality of it. Good video. I work with youths who find themselves in the criminal justice system and will be sharing your video as a way to get them thinking. Thanks Jimmy.
I never thought I’d see a parkour TH-camr make a video on knife crime with research and analysis that rivals many academic papers all whilst being presented in an engaging and easy to understand way. Honestly your videos on social issues are insanely well made, I look forward to your vids more than anyone else on TH-cam
Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.
@@robbieshand6139 non European people has brought more crime then we are used to. more violence more theft. the numbers don't really lie. you can take what i said as racism or as an unbiased observation. I'm guessing you will go with the former though. as leftist have a tendency to think they are mind readers and can guess people intentions.
@@Soul_of_a_Robot figured, no answer. The reality is that, yes: They moved migrants to other places. Just like in every other western society migrants are vastly overrepresented in violent crime. Shocking.. right?
I remember watching a video of a guy filming the police paying him a visit for something he said online that was deemed offensive and they actually asked him what he intended to do with the butter knife he had out while he was eating breakfast.
From my point of view, what's truly gotten worse all over UK is the homeless crisis and drug addiction (apart of cost of living and housing, meaning rent or mortgage.... Those who don't need a mortgage are fine, as the prices for houses and flats haven't increased THAT much.... It's just when you don't have so much money at hand when you're in trouble 😅). Anyway, I appreciate your videos, well investigated and narrated, informative, and so far for the very most part you stick to facts and not picking a political side, which is also very much appreciated, as people are far too polarised over politics nowadays.... They don't even notice how they're all being played. Keep up the good job mate!
There is nothing new in knives being carried as weapons. Humans have carried sharp implements for thousands of years, both as means of attack and defence and also to help them cook and consume food. Knives are a type of tool and like many tools they can double up as a weapon. If you look back to the 60's and 70's you will see that the carrying of knives and razors was fairly common among certain types of people. It was often seen as being tough and was very common among street gangs. This isn't anything new, it's merely the continuation of people carrying weapons as they always have done. We are predators after all is said and done, and we lack the natural weapons of most predators.
I remember kids bringing knives to school back in the day. That was also 2004. Long fucked off from North West London since then, want nothing to do with my hometown
I remember in 2010 when I was a teen, me and friends would also get stop and searched regularly. It use to be so annoying. We knew we had nothing on us that they can find, but understood why the officers are doing their jobs. It's just annoying when it happens every 2,3 days when you're just chilling with your friends.
Pakistani, Bangladeshi British people are poor in the UK as well but their homicide rates are very less compared to African British people. I wonder why
I suspect that a core problem here is that it's easier to seem to respond to a continuing problem than to address it and that it's useful to have a problem to seem to address. It's also less costly for the 1% to have a discontented populace who have progressively less security than it is to actully institute systems to help and empower the average person.
17:24 - do you understand rate? Using your own chart and 2021 census data white 82% population - 68% of knife possession non white 18% population - 32% of knife possession This is ignoring the 'No stated ethnicity' numbers in that chart.
@@Sacterheld you call anything woke first of all I know for a fact that isn't 100% white, and second it being not stated doesn't make it automatically black or white so you assuming its automatically black just shows how bias and willing you are to get the answer you want to suit your world view.
@@SenGriffen If whites are 82% of the population they should commit 82% of knife possession crimes and if non whites are 18% of the population they should commit 18% of knife possession crimes. But that's not the case , whites only commit 68% whilst non whites commit 32%, meaning that non whites are overrepresented in knife crime, meaning more non whites on average compared to the rest of their race are more likely to carry knives compared to white people compared to their race. It's very simple.
I think it's dangerous of you to frame this as an issue of ethnicity being the problem rather than crime being a consequence of poverty and inequality.
This sounded like bullshit, I checked. Highest in EUROPE, not the world. Being the highest in Europe is not close to the highest in the world when the highest murder rates are consistently Middle America and the Caribbean.
@@pollauritsabrahamsenjq1618 Ironically, we can even thank the Scotts for the heated and farcical nature of my nation's House of Commons.... I'm Canadian and will never forget learning our second PM was a Scotsman known for gettin a bit lit on complementary drink during debate and it descending into a sweaty red tattered hair piece (more than once) smacking the face of some disagreeing party across the room. Even John A caught a few well deserved stray toupees. This has been a Canadian heritage moment, courtesy of good 'ol Scotland
A superb analysis of nuance to a complex issue using evidenced theory and stats. Social media would be the one big factor omitted in my opinion. Thanks!
Love your work! Brilliant analysis of a complex issue once again! Bravo! Please keep the vids coming and I'll keep sharing them (especially with those who incorrectly think the causes are obvious and the solutions simple).
Mate, just look at the trends. Yes we've had gangs for years but the scale has been moved up rapidly and the people committing crimes have changed too.
Yea but they had a criminal code and some sort of honour system right up until the kray era , the " urban youth " gangsters of today are just worthless
@@simonmarshall3869 No I'm not referrencing peaky blinders. I'm referrencing actual history. My family made their money through the criminal underworld back then but that was about dodgy deals, avoiding tax and ignoring regulations. We didn't have this drug fueled stabbings as common place, they still helped communities. I'm not a fan of any crime but the pure lying about it's always been like this is just tripe
It's mostly out of fear, misplaced respect and just people being on road that corrupts people into getting involved. Most of these situations could've ended in a conversation rather then an all out war. It doesn’t help the media focuses on it being a black issue rather then a poverty issue and gang issue
16:43 The issue is not poverty, if this was the case why are Bangladeshi's not overrepresented disproportionately in crime statistics, despite being the poorest group in London? Why are there arrest rates nowhere near that of Black Others or Black Caribbeans, and match that nearly of White British people (not even taking into account age here)? I like how you aggregated all the non-white groups here lol, you can do better digger then that. The issue is: *2nd generation (mostly) Black and Arab/North African. The issue of crime amongst Bangladeshis and Pakistanis is not high though the are slightly over-represented in drug crime. 17:03 Possession yes but also murders. Why leave this out? You can just refute this with cursory searches for Met FOI statistics come on. This isn't something esoteric, and its not limited to "dodgy facebook posts" that you can't find a source without digging alot. Plus, these are just figures that you can obtain online right now without having to wait 1 month for a request from the police! 20:41 These comments are pointless; the biggest difference from today and late 90s to mid 2000s is that knife crime injuries are far easier to treat and hospitals are more prepared for knife wounds. 50 year old dependents to people on student visas are not doing the stabbing obviously and correlation does not equal causation. This accounts for both sides.
I grew up on an estate in north London in the 90s and 2000s, I remember the summer of 03. I’m white. It’s nothing to do with colour of race. It’s just people with lack of opportunities, lack of education, lack of stable households, drugs. General poverty basically. Only way I got out was going to jail for possession of guns in 2012, got out 2019 and made the choice to go to work. I worked hard and didn’t quit when it got tough. Now I’ve got a family and home in Hertfordshire and I’d rather go broke than live a single day in my previous life. Don’t be racist, follow the money, all the tax money. Then you’ll understand poverty
My grandparents were bombed out of their homes and were actually poor not fake poor like today's standards. Nobody was stealing, raping or stabbing. It's a morality issue.
@@Harrier_DuBois nothing to do with a world view. Blacks make up 13% of londoners yet make up almost half of blade deletion victims, over 60% of of deletion perpetrators and over half of blade crime stats. If that is not disproportionate, i dont know what is. As i said, making excuses is not helpful.
@@Harrier_DuBois my comment is apparently not allowed, lets try again. 13% of population comprises of almost half of permanent victims, over 60% of the permanent perps, and over half of crime perps in london concerning blades. It is the definition of disproportionate…
Cracking episode dude. Loving your broad data diving. It's a messed up subject but, as always, the people offering simple explainations and simple solutions are always missing out on important information. The fact you looked hard into it and got confused is right. Shit's complicated!
A huge problem is absent fathers. It's extraordinary the rate of single motherhood in black areas, thus leading to young men growing up without a positive masculine figure, thus joining roadman gangs and stabbing each other.
10:51 what makes this image even sadder is the guy being stabbed was the wrong person, the assailant mistook him for someone he had beef with. A guy with enemies like that would not be walking around with headphones on
The media is telling kids that they are 1 in danger and 2 everyone else is carrying a knife. What do you think they are going to do with that information? It's not hard to figure out.
@@QC9B4XK6u and you miss the point like a Stormtrooper misses targets 🤷 we all have flaws, no need to be such a petty twat bout it though 🤣 (maybe calm down with a nice video, I suggest watching this one)
Lad, getting stabbed be the least of your worries in N. Ireland. I knew a family friend in Londonderry that had semtex placed under his car. He was a civilian, but he ran a petrol station that would be used by Protestants to fill up at, that was it. He was the nicest guy too, didn't have any hatred for Catholics.
Literal fact because when they were knives held by white hands in Scotland for decades, nobody cared. And even now when they are knives held by white hands in the North East of England (which has the second highest rate of knife crime in the country while being the whites area with just a 1% black population) and in knife crime hotspots like Merseyside, nobody cares.
THIS! Its a self amplifying issue without addressing the root cause. Folk feel unsafe enough to carry a knife, get nabbed with said knife, the stats are misconstrued to seem like every knife arrest was a violent event and thus more folk feel unsafe, carry a blade, get nabbed.....Repeat till something finally gives under the pressure or change is directed at the source. Can't place a band aid on a bullet wound and really think that will prevent infection n festering, ya need to properly treat the wound to avoid loosing the entire damned limb.
Personally I want guns to be legal in the UK. Criminals will use them for crime (they already do), but at least the citizenry will capable of protecting themselves.
@@tagus100you mean handguns? Why? To replicate the land of the universal stupid (US) where it is way too easy to obtain a firearm sans obligation to learn and know how to handle it (plus regular exercise and public firing ranges as in Switzerland)? Not a desirable situation nor will it solve to root causes. The more weapons carried by the public, the potential for armed conflict and opportunities for those firearms to end up causing unnecessary harm.
Brilliant balanced analysis backed up with numbers, as a socialist and union rep, I've been struggling with the statistics discussing this with friends, this video is very very helpful, loving your channel, difficult subjects made digestable. Thank you ✊🏾
It was marginally better in the more prosperous areas. But in South London between the age of 14-19, 3 different kids tried to stab me, in my own area, not like I was out of place, or naïve. That was early to mid nineties. In the mid-late nineties where I lived in Streatham, there was a rash of shootings, 3 separate fatalities in one week in the roads around my house, as the yardies moved in on the previous suppliers. None of it made the front page. Where my ex lived a couple of miles north of me, in Camberwell, an Australian dude that lived on her block got shot in the dick for saying G'day to someone walking past his garage. That was late nineties. Late eighties very early nineties my school banned carrying any sort of knife, but it was still common for the usual suspects to have them, but more to threaten with than to use. That was a school on Palace Street in Westminster, five minutes walk from Buckingham Palace. So knife crime isn't new, but it has escalated to some degree. Stabbing someone in the arm or the arse used to be the thing, something non lethal. Now it's more common to stab to seriously wound.
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Welcome to England the stereotyping of posh white people with bad teeth eating and drinking tea and scones.... Umm did I just say that?
When you went back in time, you didn't include women voting? Culture change, political change, the pussification of the masses? No way in hell you would have this immigration problem without that bleeding heart bullshit they vote for. Less nuclear families, less purpose for men, more discontent, more crime. But no there you are, talking about economic inequality creating crime when the UK was largely poor as hell and still is unless you are talking about just London itself.
Violent crime increase globally directly correlates to lead as a fuel additive,
@@ChickadeeBoi that the best you got? Christ man, that burn fizzled out a decade ago.
started 60s due to moving away from traditional values which bought stability, so the deerags, xual revo, poverty it all increases mental instability and chaos
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@@-ksk-nah it’s back up to 50 pence the way inflation vs wages cucking us
22 murders is a high murder rate for ny and london? God, im from Brasil, and a normal month in Rio averages 200, we're fucked😂
Welp, they'll count you out as "not developed" enough to matter. No really. That's how they get to claim the US is the most dangerous place in the world. By ignoring most of the world as not good enough to matter.
Yeah, that's very high for us because the UK up until quite recently was a civilised place.....i can't put my finger on what has changed about the UK....i personally think it's old bigoted ladies upsetting people on Facebook 😐
@@pem...🤣civilised?are you actually serious please just do some research on uk history before you say stupid things like that
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@@alegro4046 I guess you’ve personally been and seen too all those countries and not just gone off what you’ve heard?cause you can’t be giving you’re opinion on places you’ve never experienced😂I doubt very much you’re that intelligent so give it a rest
this guy went from laidback parkour videos to full blown cultural based video essays about both important and lesser known/misunderstood issues, what a progression and what a great example of improvement
so true, he seems to give fantastic and learned overviews. not easy to do.
Agreed; it's a bit like a more down to earth take on Tom Nichols' style of commentary. I'm a big fan too
A then imagine this…I am from Prague Czech republic. Yes, I live there for my whole life but there is not a single street in Prague, that I would be scared to go on even at 3 am. But there are children (young adults) acting like there are hoods etc. influenced by czech rappers trying to be hard so they are building this narrative that Prague streets are tough (or/and influenced by music from UK/USA). So these kids started carrying knives. There is no reason for them to do so and guess what happened. The knife crime increased. One of the safest cities and they are acting like that. Utterly pathetic
It was only safe because of the mafia over there...
My mates went to Prague. They were pulled into a strip joint, offered the services of trafficked prostitute's and when they declined where told to empty their pockets by some large men.
Ahoj, dobre den,
I'd have to agree with you.
Gave spent quite long periods of my adult life living in and around Prague and have never once felt any anxiety when out late or otherwise on the streets of the city.
Admittedly, I've not seen the very worst or lowest income areas of Praha, but have mixed with people whose station in life and recreational tendencies would have them grouped as undesirables. Despite this, your city always felt safer and cleaner, etc, than the greater parts of many other cities that I have lived in or visited.
It's a shame that the nature of globalisation and the media proliferate wrong-headed aspirations amongst impressionable people's.
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Can happen anywhere.
My experiences of Prague left me feeling that their police force was more of a racket than the street hoods.
who made rap? the same 13% that do 52% of violent crimes.
You cant solve knife crime by banning this or that because a kitchen knife is all you need. Banning swords it dumb because u can't walk around with a sword without being seen.
You can ban blacks - that'll go a long way to fixing the issue
ban mah fists
Also, it's very easy to make a knife. With the right tools, I could probably churn out 15 of them an hour in my garage.
Yeah British people have become too craven and submissive to the Government. It's got to the point where politicians are banning every metal tool you can think of. Guess what? Criminals will attack you with a wooden club then. This pathetic banning culture Britain has is honestly strange and solves nothing. All it does is keep the common people in fear and submissiveness to the people with weapons. (Govt and Criminals).
i got censored but my comment was.... mu hands.... hands hurt people.... can u ban that
im gonna be really honest i really really don’t fw the AI thumbnails
Well they're not made by an AI because if anything they're just made by an algorithm that is fed query requests and uses existing data to create something. Even if they weren't its stupidly easy to make a themed thumbnail by cropping various imagery together to make a thumbnail.
@@_gungrave_6802 “erm… actually… it’s not ai just a complex neural network of-” SHUT UP!
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i don’t care what it “actually is” i care what it looks like and what it looks like is ASS. shut up, dude. everyone knows that it’s AI, that’s what everyone calls it. get over your ego before you comment next time. god.
I agree it seems such a shame to have videos of such high quality to have ai thumbnails
Welcome to the future:/
Its a phase youtubers are going through atm..dont worry it will pass when they all start following the next thing that they think will help tge algorithm
When Glasgow was the knife crime capital of Europe and the perpetrators were white, it was seen as an issue stemming from a lack of opportunities and eduction and was treated as such with schemes and investments. Now London is synonymous with knife crime in Europe and the perpetrators are black, it is seen as a cultural and sometimes even an inherent issue with those people.
Yeah, but the Scots are still stabbing each other at a rapid rate. The old way didn't work.
Exactly, populist politicians/ pundits praying on peoples lack of information
That has two sides though. On the one hand there should be oppertunity, but on the other hand we have people who are unwilling to see it as a problem because that would be racist.
I live in Wood Green, North London. Let me give it to you straight. It is a cultural thing. Whether it offends you or not. I meet a lot of different ethnicities and races. Young Black men are by far the most aggressive and violent. Other races cause crime, but it tends to be targeted on their personal enemies. If a Turk or a Polish has a beef, he keeps it in house etc. The young black boys on the other hand just go out looking to stab someone random. Half the time they kill someone, they barely even knew them. Ignoring this cultural reality is craven and dishonest. I got no hatred of blacks btw, in fact, I find the African ones to be more respectful and honest. Its the London roadmen black boys that are proper dangerous when out looking for there opps. You could just be a civilian in wrong place at wrong time, they will still cheff you.
@@suckieduckie in the other hand, close your borders
Really liked how you don't try to make simple statements about complex things, nice job.
I appreciate that!
lol, except when it's critising capitalism or margaret thatcher. Yeah all these happened because of the naughty advertisers on TV making people want stuff and Thatcher actually making the fucking economy grow for a change.
exactly
"Tough laws alone are futile, look at Mexico." - Meanwhile I'm looking at El Salvador. It appears enforcing tough laws might have some effect, I don't know.
@@pcprinciple3774you’re actually correct though. The change in our society from of one of harmony and purpose to one that craves wealth lead to more crime.
In Poland (where I live) its legal to carry any knife OR EVEN a full-sized sword. Only if: a)you carry it with intention of commiting a crime b)carry a knife on big pre-planned events like concerts, its illegal.
Despite this, we don't have a knife-crime problem. Its really something cultural I guess.
I know it's just a misspelling of "without" but it's a funny concept that carrying a knife is explicitly only legal if you intend to commit a crime with it
@@dennisolovsson4390 Most strict penal law in poland
And Poland doesn’t have shootings where guns are brought in from the U.S. because the Americans have lax gun laws
Yes it is cultural but it’s not the English culture.
Except i guess you're an idiiooot who didn't watch the video, cause Poland has WAY MORE VIOLENT CRIMES than London. Not even a contest.
Funny how quickly people have forgotten that the murder rate in Scotland in 2004 was 2.7 times higher than the highest it's ever BEEN in London and it's curious as to how that high murder rate was never really a talking point or a sign of societal doom in the UK as a whole, never mind internationally. I wonder why?
Because people see it as a novel problem for London that could've been avoided that keeps on growing.
@@DinisF97 Novel means new and it's not new, there were razor gangs in the London in the 50's and members of the Teddy Boys youth culture were notorious for carrying and using knives as was the later skinhead culture.
The only thing that keeps growing is the public's media exposure to it that's leading to confirmation bias that makes it feel novel and on the increase. The problem itself is actually decreasing having peaked in the 2017/18 police crime figures reporting year.
@@martinwilkinson7939Those are domestic problems. It's silly to compare domestic problems to imported foreign ones. One is entirely optional and the other is not. Also, it's not as if those weren't problems and no one cared. No one cares anymore because they aren't a problem anymore.
@@magicalframe9441 Well seeing as the were "imported" at a time when they weren't doing knife crime (and the vast majority of them aren't even now) then it wasn't a factor was it. And stabbings in Scotland are still a problem. They hide them in the media by calling them "slashings" (local slang) so it's harder to find stories about them (and people like you don't really care anyway if you were honest) but you can Google *Glasgow slashing* if you can be bothered.
Also, the Cleveland police area in the North East of England has the second highest rate of knife crime, that problem is happening right now, but the existence of those particular stabby people in the country wasn't optional so no reason for it ever even cross your mind right?
@@martinwilkinson7939 What do you mean by "imported at a time when they weren't doing knife crime"? It doesn't matter if most of them aren't running around stabbing people. If we import 20,000 people and 100 of stab, rape, or steal (yes, I know, not real figures don't be a pedant) those crimes could have been entirely prevented by NOT importing those people. Besides, this is only one of the many consequences of mass immigration.
Yes, stabbings in Scotland are a problem. Glasgow has been violent for decades. This isn't news to anyone. However it's an entirely different problem. One that isn't created directly through government policy. That is endemic to Scotland. You can't flip a switch and stop them stabbing each other. Get out of your bubble and quit acting like anyone who doesn't agree with you is an orcish demon. "People like you" my ass lol.
Yes English people committing crime is also a problem, but we can't just stick them on a plane to wherever they came from. You're completely missing the point.
I lived in NW London in the 90s. It was MADNESS. If you didn't think things were crazy back then, that's just cause you were leading a sheltered life. And I will not ever worry about crime in younger generations after having had some really honest conversations with my grandparents generation in my family about what they were up to in the 1960s here in Canada. Again - if you thought people weren't robbing banks, that's cause your Grandad wasn't doing all that.
It's not to say there isn't problems with crime, even amongst specific communities. But pull your knickers up - the sky isn't falling. At least not anymore lol
How come no one ever mentions the link the between fatherlessness and violent crime, especially among young man?
@@donaldkamthepha1483 Because then we’ll need to look at which demographics suffer the most from that issue, which means people will get uncomfortable and stick their heads in the sand.
@@tagus100 Truth hurts, pain heals.
He did mention high divorce rates, but very fleetingly. He didn’t mention fatherlessness in general, probably because it’s become a “dog whistle” for something else.
because its not a tar everyone with the same brush my dad died when I was 4 I ain't a criminal but then again I ain't black either
@@tagus100Single motherhood has gone up significantly in every race in the west (native born specifically). You're just trying to make a racist argument. It's actually the feminism that makes people/the government not want to look at the issue.
I got arrested on suspicion of possessing a bladed article. I was homeless at the time and fell asleep in a graveyard. Someone called the police and I got woken up to two officers saying "what's your name?". Given that they'd literally just woken me up, I wasn't in the most cooperative mood. I said "do I need to tell you my name if I'm not under arrest?" and he said "put your hands behind your back, you're under arrest". This shocked me, especially when he said it was for possession of a bladed article. Turns out it was because a Stanley knife I'd got for a pound from pound land had fallen out my pocket onto the grass. I was using it to cut string to make a makeshift tent because I was sleeping in the park. They took me in for 8 hours before releasing me 5 miles from where they picked me up without pressing charges and without a lift back. Whilst I was in custody they refused to give me my medication with my name clearly printed on it because "that could be anything in there mate, you could've tampered with it", and they also unravelled my entire ball of string before giving it back to me, the spiteful bastards. I had to throw it away it was so knotted. Never even threatened anyone, never mind committed a stabbing.
That said, I had a knife held to my throat in a robbery when I was homeless, by a well known local scumbag. He'd set out to rob homeless people knowing there were no consequences
After it happened to 3 or 4 friends I decided enough was enough. I knew where he lived and his full name, but the police wouldn't let me make a report without givibg my full name, which could very well have gotten me killed. So he got to carry on.
If you think this doesn't disproportionately affect the poor I don't know what to tell you.
Thanks for sharing, I don't understand this though:
'the police wouldn't let me make a report without givibg my full name, which could very well have gotten me killed'
Why could that have gotten you killed? Couldn't you have used a fake name?
Wow, this is proper food for thought. Media creates a phenomenon to sell copies and then it becomes a phenomenon - a full feedback cycle
Don't understand me wrong, your Sports Documentaries were good, but switching to social topics was such an amazing move.
You are great at this.
Honestly bro, you hit the nail on the head. I moved to England in 2012 coming from Belgium and got tangled up in the drug trade/county lines and have been stabbed myself/lost close friends to "knife crime" and to me, it always seemed like there was less and less of it while also being more and more sensationalised. Most victims of knife crimes in London aren't white, so the general conservative societal mind instantly jumps to "these 'criminals' aren't here to contribute but to squeeze the UK of all its resources" while not realising the reason these things are happening are due to consistent, systemic neglect and deprivation, but people would rather blame the issue on the person itself here than take a step back and contextualise the whole situation. Nobody stops to think how it even got to this point, but are more than happy to point fingers and make it out like you deserve it.
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You were a drug dealer, play stupid games. 13=14% of pop, close to 50 percent of knife incidents committed by, explain that?
@@VileCAESARBif you had the slightest bit of critical thinking skills you’d be able to put together that the percentage of the people AND the crimes are concentrated in areas that are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
Yeah don't blame the person, blame society.... you are the problem. Emigrated here and started dealing drugs. Go away.
It is absolutely racial/ethnic, literally in every single Western country muslims and blacks hold a monopoly on being extremely overrepresented as (violent) criminals, even in socialist utopia's like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. So the whole leftist "they're neglected, impoverished, and have little future" BS is such a massive cope and lame excuse.
The stabbings are sad but what's seemingly WAY worse are the child grooming gangs UK police ignored for years. That's legitimately terrifying. Either way, things are not trending in a good direction but it seems people's lives need to get a lot worse before any major change happens.
Think about the children
Unfortunately, nothing will change. Historically, we British do exactly nothing. We simply put up with whatever the ruling elite inflict on us. And they decided to abandon our city streets to the criminals. And now Labour has let all the criminals that they locked up five minutes ago free. The result will be a tsunami of crime. But that's okay. They'll be safe in their leafy shires or their gated communities
Oh, they didn't just ignore the grooming gangs. They were covering up for them, keeping the parents away from the abducted children and police officers were gladly r**ing the kids themselves. I've lived in UK for over six years. There are many things I like about the country, especially the elderly. Old time Brits are the most wonderful people in the world. But the system, the youth culture, the law, the justice system, the police and the protected class of third world immigrants makes me sick to my stomach I can't imagine living there anymore.
Diversity and inclusivity - what a great success that is.
That's spot on, especially when gang members do things for elders a slang term for a veteran gang member most of the time these young people are groomed into a lifestyle given to them by the older gang members. And because there's less mid tier business that used to fill the high street there's less opportunity so most of the time these young people end up in parks outside sweets shops etc where they're picked up by a gang member and groomed into a lifestyle.
Around 20:00 you talk about immigration and it's relation to crime, and I think you leave out a very important fact.
In Sweden for example, the non-eu imigrants are more likely to commit violent crimes than sweden-born people with swedish parents. But the worst group is the sweden-born people with non-eu born parents, especially parents from Middle East and North Africa.
So we'll probably experience the results of the huge amount of people from ME/NA, that fled to Sweden around 2015, when their children becomes teenagers.
and coincidentally "in Sweden, the at-risk-of-poverty rate between 2013 and 2023 was highest among citizens born outside of the EU. It usually lay between 30 and 40 percent. The rates were significantly lower for people born in the EU or in Sweden, between 15 and 20 percent and around 11 percent, respectively."
For sure, it will be similar as hell, and it seems that it's on that way already.
That's because their parents have fled there with fuck all so that the kids are far less well off than their peers - it's inequality as a root cause yet again.
@@olliestudio45 You can't chalk EVERYTHING up to poverty. There is a pressing issue of people from the MENA region not integrating into Western European society.
You make a great point but of course Jimmy only hearted the reply that reinforces his view of everything bad is down to poverty. He's getting more and more mask-off with his left-wing views by the day.
21:20 WOAH, hold up, those UAE and Qatar rates are way off. In order to have an accurate m rate to begin with, you need a certain level of equality in society where all unalivings will actually be reported and counted. Unfortunately, in the UAE and Qatar there is essentially a slave labor class of migrant workers (mostly from India and SE Asia) that experiences extremely high rates of crime and death, it's simply not reported due to such workers status in society. It's been a major issue for a while, but a lot of the world started hearing about the problem when Qatar won the hosting rights to the world cup in 2021. More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka were worked so hard building buildings in the desert that they lost their lives in Qatar since it won the right to host. The country still does not formally recognize these deaths are what they are; m*rders. So you just can't talk about the m*rder rates in countries with huge inequality without acknowledging that such inequality means the unalivings of the 'underclasses' are simply not counted. BTW, this also is true for countries with very high gender inequality. Lots of femicide in such countries, but those are simply not counted often.
I do always find it a bit funny when I hear Americans talking about how dangerous London due to knife crime, meanwhile they're teaching their kids what to do in case of a school shooting which is absolutely not an unlikely thing to have to prepare for over there
So?...
21:20 i was born and raised in United Arab Emirates and during friday afternoon prayer, the shopkeepers would simply put a chair in the front of the door to let people know that the shopkeeper is out praying. people would stand and wait outside for the prayers to finish and the shopkeeper to come back. at night, because its a hot country, shopkeepers would keep fruits and vegetable boxes outside in the open so they can remain cool and no one would steal it.
it is because people knew the punishments were harsh. UAE is 80-90% immigrants.
What % of that is imported slaves?
No it’s because people have islam and morals.
Funnily enough, London was like the 50's and 60's.
@@All_Hail_Chael Kray brothers? Ronnie and Reggie didn't exist? Bollocks.
Now let's talk about treatment of women and modern day slavery in the UAE.
this happened because we have no real self defence laws and due to that any form of defensive tool, what's the point in self defence when we cant fight of an attacker. if i was to get run up on in the streets rn and i fought back when the police get there wed both be charged. the uk has taught its people to be scared to stand up for themselves and so no one does and no one has anything to defend themselves with either. which is stupid because criminals don't care if a knife is illegal they will carry it anyway and use it anyway, so why do we the public need to walk about with no form of protection whilst criminals do what they want anyway and when or if they do go to stab us were just allowed to use fists, even a legal carry like a swiss army knife would get you charged if you used it back in self defence against someone literally trying to take your life with the same weapon. give us proper self defence rights and laws, and its simple allow everyone to be able to defend themselves with everyday carry weapons, such as 6 round revolvers for public carry, pump or barrel fed shotguns for home defence, switchblade for public carry. none of these weapons hold enough ammo or power to cause mass shootings the reload time after those 6 rounds are fired is way to long for anyone to practically use it for mass shootings same with shotguns, and guess what we can regulate what ammo is available to the public ie keep it to standard rounds in revolvers and only alow birdshot and buck shot for shotguns. and now imagine everyone has self defences right and the means to defend themselves and so people take robbing, raping and killing people a whole lot more serious because now the criminals dont know what we have a gun or a knife they have no clue. so you see people would double think doing these things in public. Obviously when you mix giving your country no self defence rights, laws or even the means to defend themselves against knife crime with also cutting pensions upping the prices for essentials and taxing us up our arses with no return when we are suffering this is what you'll get. its very simple our governments just not that smart.
people forget that a gun is a survival tool just like a knife is a survival tool. it shouldn't be so taboo the thought of defending your own life. especially when guns are the only reason people feel so free today.
agreed
if you think self defense is going to help you with someone with a knife, think again
@@DroolRockworm Pahahahaha do you not realise that what you just said is exactly how the UK currently is? Did everything i say go over your head? because if you had a revolver or a knife to defend yourself you would have much greater odds of living. Your completely wrong if we had real self defence laws that for one would idk MAYBE ALLOWS US TO DEFEND OUR SELFS WITH OUT HAVING TO BE STABBED OR BEATEN FIRST, would absolutely help. Here I am saying people should be allowed to defend themselves and this mongorockworm guy is like "SeLf DeFeNsE wOnT hElP" brother didn't even read the whole comment and if he did he understood none of it and still felt like he had a voice on the matter, like why are you trying to have an input on decisions you don't understand even a little bit? this is exactly why the UK is doomed to trashy laws and knife crime mixed with a public of people so brainwashed they think self defence wont help them, Because everyone has turned into a massive p*ssy with a massive mouth and a tiny brain with out the capacity to understand a structured sentence or conversation. our government has us fighting against ourselves. its honestly pathetic.
@@DroolRockworm oh boy if only a specific tool to level physical disparity and neutralise a threat from a certain distance had been invented, and made available to law abiding citizens. That would be crazy, innit?
Outstanding work looking at the timeline and origins of a very misunderstood topic, connecting some dots, and presenting some really legitimate conclusions.
All your videos are great but his might be the best video you have created.
For real. This is important work
No. Giant is wrong. If you've never been in violent trouble or involved somehow and witnessed it first hand you really don't know. This is why neither the government nor police can tackle it because no one they know have been involved. Jimmy really has absolutely no idea here.
Not by a long shot
@@SuzyMoore-ob3pp So would you like to explain what exactly he is wrong about and why?
@@SuzyMoore-ob3ppthat was a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. Facts and figures were presented. If you failed to understand them, maybe retry schooling?
I remember growing up New York was like the stereotypical crime filled city where you’d have a 90% chance of getting shot or robbed if you were walking in an alleyway.
Now london has a higher homicide rate and knife crime rate.
Well done, one of the most nuanced analysis of the topic on TH-cam. I love how I once subscribed for the parkour content (and I'ma fat bloke taht couldnt parkour if my life depended on it) and I am witnessing your journey through subculture documentaries, that i greatly enjoyed into this. This is one of the most real, objective and nuanced documentary channels on societal issues coming out of the UK right now. I respect that a lot. Keep up the great work mate, love from Ireland.
Great research into a difficult and somewhat emotive topic. Thank you for always providing an objective view on such matters as this makes for compelling viewing. Great stuff.
Love your work my guy, you care about getting your numbers right so as someone who grew up and lives in St Louis I want you to know that the murder rate number is skewed by how the area divides itself into about 100 separate municipalities, each considered it's own reporting district by the gov't. We do have legit problems with crime, as does any metro area of over 2 mil, but the number you used is taken from an area that's incredibly poor, dangerous, and anyone with sense leaves. You can go two miles west and live in a nice area, we did. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the insight, so hard to find context in the news!
Dont you think that the more divided that community is, the worse its going to get? You live in the most unequal country in the free world.
@@WGK90it’s not as divided as the media likes to portray and also at least we aren’t arresting our citizens for what’s deemed a hateful social media post
Incredibly poor, dangerous and bla... oh wait, forget I mentioned it.
"It's not race or foreign culture, it's inequality."
"So what happens if we import hundreds of thousands of really unequal people?"
"What about Mexico - they are religious and they have strict laws..." - Are you playing daft? It doesn't matter what laws you have, if you don't enforce them. What about El Salvador, is the question you should be asking. They somehow reduced their murder rate drastically. Must have some spectacular long term integration social programs in the good old El Salvador.
He says its inequality and then deliberately aggregates disparate groups together to prove a point, in other ways he is playing fast and loose with statistics as well despite claiming others are doing so.
El Salvador is an authoritarian and borderline fascist state. They addressed the problem of gang violence by imprisoning tens of thousands of people without trial. That doesn't tackle the underlying causes of crime, nor does it represent a fair and functional justice system.
Jamaica is consistantly in the top 5 murders per capita and is often No1 or No2 in the world.
We imported loads of them and now have loads of murders... must be inequality.
Every third or fourth person could be innocent over there, and they make their prisons very very inhumane. If they would have built these prisons in wartime for captured soldiers, they would have hauge over their asses.
@@matekiss3545 Oh, no. Sounds so futile.
Don’t worry we have shorter sentences for knife crime anyway, tweets and Facebook posts are far more dangerous
Yeah, it's mad how bad the censorship has got on TH-cam. I kept trying to type out an encounter where I young guy I knew in Wood Green got stabbed. Nothing offensive or gruesome. Just the account of a true story of a Londoner getting stabbed. TH-cam kept deleting my comment. Keeps censoring the truth when people try and tell it.
Jimmy the amount of research u do for these videos is exceptional
You see capitalism as a cause for young ones turning to crime, but in Sweden Malmo young refugees refused job offerings because they could make more money by selling drug. That is just one case but I'm confident that simple and fast shortcuts are why they turn to it. Culture enters the discussion here when someone's philosophy is to hustle and do it at all costs for their good, they consequently lack the foresight to see the society, especially one that they do not feel belong to.
When did capitalism stop existing in Sweden? Its semi Socialist but still has private market and a tradition of both xenophobia and eugenics... Should maybe look into the why behind some of the other stats there, like why the lower birth rates of children with conditions they can spot in utero..... There are more socio-economic than ethnicity based culture influences factoring into the larger equation than most want to accept.
Jimmy is very left-wing and it's getting more brazen by the day. All the fault lies in capitalism making people poor in his mind.
Bollocks
@@ChickadeeBoi "It's not race or foreign culture, it's inequality." - So what happens if we import hundreds of thousands of really unequal people?
"Capitalism bad."
You've literally described a problem caused by capitalism. If someone makes the decision to turn to crime to make more money, there's almost every chance that they can't make enough to support themselves on a legitimate wage, or have crippling debts or toxic expectations to live up to. How people can miss this stuff while talking about it all in the same breath is absurd. You need to re read your own comment and get a clue.
This is such a great video. As someone who regularly uses large knives for my job and for hobbies, I get concerned at the constant calls for more knife bans. Carrying a knife without a reason is already illegal, and bringing in bans on specific knives has been tried for decades and has never worked. But the gov would rather create a stupid new law rather than tackle the root cause of the issue, because as you said its expensive, and long term, and they dont want the hassle.
"With the advent of home tv, we had adverts BLASTED into our retinas..."
proceeds to blast an advert into my retinas
powerful stuff
you are honestly the best youtuber ever! really inspired me to get out my bad knife crime habits! cheers mate i owe u my life xx
Amazing video with good sources. Reading through the comment section I get the feeling half of those people didn't watch the video
I'm open to hearing an immigration =/= increase in crime argument, but comparing 2020 net migration to half that nominal value from over a decade ago (or any previous year, really) and saying the rate in 2020 was lower is not a good argument given that over half the year people were in lockdown.
20:33 He said 2022 not 2020
@@nathanw9770 You're actually right, I misheard. 2022 still started off with partial lockdowns until the Ukraine war kicked off proper in late February, but it's a far smaller period than the 2020 comparison would have been
Have you seen the knife crime in Glasgow? What immigrants are responsible for that? How about poverty as a cause....?
@@paulitoLdn Glasgow has a lot of foreign gangs... What the fuck are you on about?
@@danke1150historically, it didn't. It was sectarian...still is
I came here for the parkour years ago, now it’s this man’s mad story skills. Loving the content as always, keep it strong.
13:50 Due to the rise of immigration in those areas making them more "diverse". But don't let facts get in the way of a good story, Jimmy!
His job depends on not getting banned or losing his sponsorships
So as a result he isn’t going to say stuff like that true or not
surface-level observation lmao
@@OLI-vx1md tell me you haven’t studied history, sociology, geopolitics or have ever read a book that delved deep into societal and cultural issues without telling me. If anything, you have the critical thinking and deduction of a complete layman and manchild. And people like you are walking around with the ability to vote and produce offspring
The murder and stabbing capital of the UK is Glasgow, which is 97% WHITE
@@Sajid_A829 Despite making up 13% of London's total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London's knife murder victims. Guess who's on the other end of the Knife , yep that's correct . From the Govs own stats
These videos are so well researched and put together and dare I say seem balanced. Always learn something insightful from JTG
Honestly the most interesting video I've seen in a while, made me think about a lit of things - well done man
Imma yank that loves your vids. As a Yank we obviously have our own issues with crime and violence over here as well quite famously. But alot of people on our side of the pond have also been talking about Britians knife crime (mostly through memes if we're being honest) and I also knew about Glasgow and how the stats dont even tell half the story at the turn of the 20th into the 21st century Scotland was the most dangerous country in the entirety of the EU per capita! But like you said in the video community action and not just throwing more money at the police did the trick and crime overall went down. In the US poverty, lack of community, lack of upward mobility, mental illness, drugs and drug abuse all stew into the big pot that is crime of all types.
Also as a Non-white guy Im also glad it didnt turn into a "lets blame all the problems of society on minorities" which is sadly very common these days. Keep up the great docs bro.
There is no political will nor care for this issue, the political class is so far removed they dont even really register the devastating reality of it. Good video. I work with youths who find themselves in the criminal justice system and will be sharing your video as a way to get them thinking. Thanks Jimmy.
Everyone knows what the problem is, but many lie both to themselves and others. When you lie, you get punished.
I never thought I’d see a parkour TH-camr make a video on knife crime with research and analysis that rivals many academic papers all whilst being presented in an engaging and easy to understand way. Honestly your videos on social issues are insanely well made, I look forward to your vids more than anyone else on TH-cam
Such a good journalist. Fact driven storyteller rather than a story driven statistician. Love all you vids man
"Facts"
Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.
Same in usa.. its sad man.
🤓
blacks gonna black
but dont start to see pattern,s or you will be called racist. connecting the dots is really really bad you know ;)
Because crime is their culture.
This entire video is 1 big lesson in avoiding the elephant in the room.
Yeah: capitalism.
Ok neo-nazi
Have a good day!
Which is?
@@robbieshand6139 They won't say it out loud. Nazis like him are cowards.
@@robbieshand6139 non European people has brought more crime then we are used to. more violence more theft. the numbers don't really lie. you can take what i said as racism or as an unbiased observation. I'm guessing you will go with the former though. as leftist have a tendency to think they are mind readers and can guess people intentions.
A longer vid on how the murder rate was reduced in Glasgow would be fab😊
send the immigrants to smaller towns
@@bretertthat's not hobbit happened but, whatever floats your racist boat
@@Soul_of_a_Robot So... how did it happen then?
@@Soul_of_a_Robot figured, no answer.
The reality is that, yes: They moved migrants to other places.
Just like in every other western society migrants are vastly overrepresented in violent crime. Shocking.. right?
@@bretert they all peacefully migrated to the Shire after their long journey
I remember watching a video of a guy filming the police paying him a visit for something he said online that was deemed offensive and they actually asked him what he intended to do with the butter knife he had out while he was eating breakfast.
From my point of view, what's truly gotten worse all over UK is the homeless crisis and drug addiction (apart of cost of living and housing, meaning rent or mortgage.... Those who don't need a mortgage are fine, as the prices for houses and flats haven't increased THAT much.... It's just when you don't have so much money at hand when you're in trouble 😅).
Anyway, I appreciate your videos, well investigated and narrated, informative, and so far for the very most part you stick to facts and not picking a political side, which is also very much appreciated, as people are far too polarised over politics nowadays.... They don't even notice how they're all being played.
Keep up the good job mate!
There is nothing new in knives being carried as weapons. Humans have carried sharp implements for thousands of years, both as means of attack and defence and also to help them cook and consume food. Knives are a type of tool and like many tools they can double up as a weapon. If you look back to the 60's and 70's you will see that the carrying of knives and razors was fairly common among certain types of people. It was often seen as being tough and was very common among street gangs. This isn't anything new, it's merely the continuation of people carrying weapons as they always have done. We are predators after all is said and done, and we lack the natural weapons of most predators.
Especially those imported from more tribal cultures...
@@SteveInTokyo-b8n barbarians is the 1910 casual terminology.
21:08 You aren't admitted if your found dead at the scene. What's the stats on those?
I remember a friend telling me Knife crime was rampant in London this was 2004
I remember kids bringing knives to school back in the day. That was also 2004. Long fucked off from North West London since then, want nothing to do with my hometown
I remember in 2010 when I was a teen, me and friends would also get stop and searched regularly. It use to be so annoying. We knew we had nothing on us that they can find, but understood why the officers are doing their jobs. It's just annoying when it happens every 2,3 days when you're just chilling with your friends.
This is a great video man, it's clear you've put a lot of effort into your research
Pakistani, Bangladeshi British people are poor in the UK as well but their homicide rates are very less compared to African British people. I wonder why
Plenty of Asians stab each other up. It's a fact of life, gang life is gang life regardless of skin colour.
Another banger video man
A good take on this subject would have liked more clips of Piers Morgan getting owned by Akarla, but other than that quality analysis 👏
the start were he said "Its like a counter strike loot box" had me dying 😂😂
I suspect that a core problem here is that it's easier to seem to respond to a continuing problem than to address it and that it's useful to have a problem to seem to address.
It's also less costly for the 1% to have a discontented populace who have progressively less security than it is to actully institute systems to help and empower the average person.
17:24 - do you understand rate? Using your own chart and 2021 census data
white 82% population - 68% of knife possession
non white 18% population - 32% of knife possession
This is ignoring the 'No stated ethnicity' numbers in that chart.
It's incredible how he's so woke that he misses obvious shit like this.
Like most people, he purposely ignores the evidence that doesn't support his view
@@Sacterheld you call anything woke first of all I know for a fact that isn't 100% white, and second it being not stated doesn't make it automatically black or white so you assuming its automatically black just shows how bias and willing you are to get the answer you want to suit your world view.
@@SenGriffen If whites are 82% of the population they should commit 82% of knife possession crimes and if non whites are 18% of the population they should commit 18% of knife possession crimes. But that's not the case , whites only commit 68% whilst non whites commit 32%, meaning that non whites are overrepresented in knife crime, meaning more non whites on average compared to the rest of their race are more likely to carry knives compared to white people compared to their race. It's very simple.
I think it's dangerous of you to frame this as an issue of ethnicity being the problem rather than crime being a consequence of poverty and inequality.
The forks at 2:45 😂😂😂
Knife crime started in glasgow scotland we had the biggest knife crime in the world fact check it 👍
We have had this filth since victorian times in major English/Scottish cities...things spread..all things.
Everything is invented in Scotland
This sounded like bullshit, I checked.
Highest in EUROPE, not the world.
Being the highest in Europe is not close to the highest in the world when the highest murder rates are consistently Middle America and the Caribbean.
@@pollauritsabrahamsenjq1618 Ironically, we can even thank the Scotts for the heated and farcical nature of my nation's House of Commons.... I'm Canadian and will never forget learning our second PM was a Scotsman known for gettin a bit lit on complementary drink during debate and it descending into a sweaty red tattered hair piece (more than once) smacking the face of some disagreeing party across the room. Even John A caught a few well deserved stray toupees. This has been a Canadian heritage moment, courtesy of good 'ol Scotland
@@ChickadeeBoi "Scotts".... Read a book eh?
People in late 60s: we need a new sofa
People in mid 2020s: we need a new wallet
A superb analysis of nuance to a complex issue using evidenced theory and stats. Social media would be the one big factor omitted in my opinion. Thanks!
Love your work! Brilliant analysis of a complex issue once again! Bravo! Please keep the vids coming and I'll keep sharing them (especially with those who incorrectly think the causes are obvious and the solutions simple).
This comments section is mad. London has had gangs of kids going back centuries. Its like goddam Dickens's
Also the murder and stabbing capital of the UK is Glasgow, which is 97% WHITE, but they never talk about that
Mate, just look at the trends. Yes we've had gangs for years but the scale has been moved up rapidly and the people committing crimes have changed too.
@@bigmanmichael3807 Isn't there a TV show called peaky blinders. It's not like you expected the gangs to still be like that right?
Yea but they had a criminal code and some sort of honour system right up until the kray era , the " urban youth " gangsters of today are just worthless
@@simonmarshall3869 No I'm not referrencing peaky blinders. I'm referrencing actual history. My family made their money through the criminal underworld back then but that was about dodgy deals, avoiding tax and ignoring regulations. We didn't have this drug fueled stabbings as common place, they still helped communities. I'm not a fan of any crime but the pure lying about it's always been like this is just tripe
It's mostly out of fear, misplaced respect and just people being on road that corrupts people into getting involved. Most of these situations could've ended in a conversation rather then an all out war. It doesn’t help the media focuses on it being a black issue rather then a poverty issue and gang issue
You’re a legend this needs way more views, amazing video
yet again more amazing content, thank you dude :)
16:43 The issue is not poverty, if this was the case why are Bangladeshi's not overrepresented disproportionately in crime statistics, despite being the poorest group in London? Why are there arrest rates nowhere near that of Black Others or Black Caribbeans, and match that nearly of White British people (not even taking into account age here)? I like how you aggregated all the non-white groups here lol, you can do better digger then that.
The issue is:
*2nd generation (mostly) Black and Arab/North African. The issue of crime amongst Bangladeshis and Pakistanis is not high though the are slightly over-represented in drug crime.
17:03 Possession yes but also murders. Why leave this out? You can just refute this with cursory searches for Met FOI statistics come on. This isn't something esoteric, and its not limited to "dodgy facebook posts" that you can't find a source without digging alot. Plus, these are just figures that you can obtain online right now without having to wait 1 month for a request from the police!
20:41 These comments are pointless; the biggest difference from today and late 90s to mid 2000s is that knife crime injuries are far easier to treat and hospitals are more prepared for knife wounds. 50 year old dependents to people on student visas are not doing the stabbing obviously and correlation does not equal causation. This accounts for both sides.
I grew up on an estate in north London in the 90s and 2000s, I remember the summer of 03. I’m white.
It’s nothing to do with colour of race. It’s just people with lack of opportunities, lack of education, lack of stable households, drugs. General poverty basically. Only way I got out was going to jail for possession of guns in 2012, got out 2019 and made the choice to go to work. I worked hard and didn’t quit when it got tough. Now I’ve got a family and home in Hertfordshire and I’d rather go broke than live a single day in my previous life.
Don’t be racist, follow the money, all the tax money. Then you’ll understand poverty
My grandparents were bombed out of their homes and were actually poor not fake poor like today's standards. Nobody was stealing, raping or stabbing. It's a morality issue.
@@jimbobber758 so you’re telling me during you’re grandads poverty no one was raped or murdered? Did you even watch the video. Are you slow
Cultural enrichment
I’d rather deal with knife threats than guns like in the USA.
Import savages and you import savage methods.
Did you watch the video?
It is absolutey a cultural problem, and making excuses is not hepful.
You got shown evidence to the contrary, but it doesn't suit your world view?
@@Harrier_DuBois nothing to do with a world view.
Blacks make up 13% of londoners yet make up almost half of blade deletion victims, over 60% of of deletion perpetrators and over half of blade crime stats.
If that is not disproportionate, i dont know what is. As i said, making excuses is not helpful.
@@Harrier_DuBois my comment is apparently not allowed, lets try again.
13% of population comprises of almost half of permanent victims, over 60% of the permanent perps, and over half of crime perps in london concerning blades.
It is the definition of disproportionate…
@@djtonylee I suggest you actually watch the video.
@@Harrier_DuBois the london stats speak for themselves.
I am always interested in the perspective from across the pond when in comes to this issue. I have absolutely no idea having never been there
Cracking episode dude. Loving your broad data diving. It's a messed up subject but, as always, the people offering simple explainations and simple solutions are always missing out on important information. The fact you looked hard into it and got confused is right. Shit's complicated!
As a fortysomething lifelong loner who cut his teeth on the original GTA I can confirm I immediately started stabbin mself after playing the game
A huge problem is absent fathers. It's extraordinary the rate of single motherhood in black areas, thus leading to young men growing up without a positive masculine figure, thus joining roadman gangs and stabbing each other.
As well, a single mother has half the income of a two parent household, leading to less time to closely parent the child, less love & attention.
Mental health issue, no matter how you look at it.
I grew up with an absent father. Sharping my knife as I type this before I go out with the gang.
@@pest174statistically more.
as someone who grew up without their dad or a "positive masculine figure", i can confirm that this is not at all accurate
Few important bits are missing in your analysis, resulting in wrong conclusions. Oh, and blaming a capitalism for this???
10:51 what makes this image even sadder is the guy being stabbed was the wrong person, the assailant mistook him for someone he had beef with. A guy with enemies like that would not be walking around with headphones on
I was a teenager in the 80's and I always carried a pocket knife, not as a weapon but as a tool that's useful!
It didn't happen before mass immigration. Let's not mince our words here on this serious issue, immigration caused this.
You sure buddy?
My favorite part was when you offered no facts and only you’re emotional subjective opinion
Did you actually watch the video?
The comments sections inability to highlight the main reason the UK has imported knife crime is dumbfounding
So explain how over 90% white teesside "imported" knife crime pal
Open borders?
The comment section is full of white incels racists. Racists don’t have high iq ofc they don’t insert
Knife crime happened in Victorian times too but race wasn't a factor to be weaponised by the media.
@@jasonharrison5765 it's also happening now in majority white areas but no one wants to talk about that either
Another excellent video. Overlaps with the concept of moral panics.
"The first time i got stabbed 9 times, the second time i got stabbed 9 times, the third time i called 999". Barz
The media is telling kids that they are 1 in danger and 2 everyone else is carrying a knife.
What do you think they are going to do with that information? It's not hard to figure out.
Jimmy dodging the elephants in the room like Neo dodges bullets in The Matrix 😂
No he addresses it, the video is basically an argument against the stereotype.
You literally took the words out of my mouth!
if jimmy's neo, then tom is morpheus and obvious change is the freeway.
@@QC9B4XK6u and you miss the point like a Stormtrooper misses targets 🤷 we all have flaws, no need to be such a petty twat bout it though 🤣 (maybe calm down with a nice video, I suggest watching this one)
He addressed it.
Poor little Northern Ireland is left out 😅
Lad, getting stabbed be the least of your worries in N. Ireland. I knew a family friend in Londonderry that had semtex placed under his car. He was a civilian, but he ran a petrol station that would be used by Protestants to fill up at, that was it. He was the nicest guy too, didn't have any hatred for Catholics.
@@salkoharper2908 I'm glad to see NI is back in its old ways 😂
Thats because NI is one of the safest places in the uk
@@Fatherfintanstack111 if that's the case, I'll see if I can take a holiday over there, and walk around wearing my army uniform 😁
Where are we left out...? Other than when he's talking about London, he's talking about the UK. Some stats are just England & Wales sure but...?
Bans do jackshit, what they need to do is get to the heart of the issue and fix that.
So mass deportations?
Capital punishment
@@folksurvival& capital punishment
joined for the parkour, stayed for the social commentary.
This is third video I watched from you. Please keep the good work. It's amazing, thank you. 🙌
Black knives matter.
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Literal fact because when they were knives held by white hands in Scotland for decades, nobody cared. And even now when they are knives held by white hands in the North East of England (which has the second highest rate of knife crime in the country while being the whites area with just a 1% black population) and in knife crime hotspots like Merseyside, nobody cares.
Something you probably hear your mother say alot
@@danielcunningham6727 mom jokes, have i been transported back to 1988?
@djtonylee OK don't cry princess maybe go ask your hero huw edwards to wipe your tears
You would be surprised how many people in the UK carry a blade for protection.
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
THIS! Its a self amplifying issue without addressing the root cause. Folk feel unsafe enough to carry a knife, get nabbed with said knife, the stats are misconstrued to seem like every knife arrest was a violent event and thus more folk feel unsafe, carry a blade, get nabbed.....Repeat till something finally gives under the pressure or change is directed at the source. Can't place a band aid on a bullet wound and really think that will prevent infection n festering, ya need to properly treat the wound to avoid loosing the entire damned limb.
Personally I want guns to be legal in the UK. Criminals will use them for crime (they already do), but at least the citizenry will capable of protecting themselves.
@@tagus100you mean handguns? Why? To replicate the land of the universal stupid (US) where it is way too easy to obtain a firearm sans obligation to learn and know how to handle it (plus regular exercise and public firing ranges as in Switzerland)? Not a desirable situation nor will it solve to root causes. The more weapons carried by the public, the potential for armed conflict and opportunities for those firearms to end up causing unnecessary harm.
@@tagus100 Except for the ones that can't use guns, like schoolkids...
@@Hanstra Yes a child would not be allowed to own a firearm.
We imported knife crime.
Brilliant video Jimmy, well thought out and put together
Brilliant balanced analysis backed up with numbers, as a socialist and union rep, I've been struggling with the statistics discussing this with friends, this video is very very helpful, loving your channel, difficult subjects made digestable. Thank you ✊🏾
Somehow i feel like London is not as safe as it was in 2004-2010.
and it was probably better in the 90's
There was a lot of crime even then 💀
For us civilians it's completely fine. Gangs attack rival gangs not random innocent civilians.
It was marginally better in the more prosperous areas.
But in South London between the age of 14-19, 3 different kids tried to stab me, in my own area, not like I was out of place, or naïve. That was early to mid nineties.
In the mid-late nineties where I lived in Streatham, there was a rash of shootings, 3 separate fatalities in one week in the roads around my house, as the yardies moved in on the previous suppliers. None of it made the front page.
Where my ex lived a couple of miles north of me, in Camberwell, an Australian dude that lived on her block got shot in the dick for saying G'day to someone walking past his garage. That was late nineties.
Late eighties very early nineties my school banned carrying any sort of knife, but it was still common for the usual suspects to have them, but more to threaten with than to use. That was a school on Palace Street in Westminster, five minutes walk from Buckingham Palace.
So knife crime isn't new, but it has escalated to some degree. Stabbing someone in the arm or the arse used to be the thing, something non lethal. Now it's more common to stab to seriously wound.
it is safe init bruv