Can Boris really solve the problems on the streets of London, hopefully he can? We can not continue on the road we are travelling. On average a teenager was murdered last year every two weeks and we have started this year in the same vain.
But this is a not a problem that can be solved by one person alone, the police, politicians, community and probably the most important people to help solve this crime is the young people themselves.
The older generation like me, no longer know the minds of the youth today. Things are totally different now to when we grew up, the things that were important us are no longer relevant to the youth of today.
The vast majority of the youth today are far more intelligent than my generation. The teenagers that I have come into contact are on the whole polite and generally considerate of other people. The trouble is caused by only a small handful of kids, misguided into thinking that being a member of gang will bring them respect. Unfortunately this is not the case; in fact the reverse is true, these are the kids we need to educate.
Respect is earned through many things, hard work, dedication and honesty to name a few. The media have laid the blame on the parents of these kids and rightly they should share some of the blame, however society must take the majority of the blame we have a culture now have a culture of drug taking, binge drinking and having things straight away.
I doubt that gang culture, knife and gun crime will go away any time soon, we should prepare ourselves for more teenage deaths. Sad isnt it?
