Hackney Million Moms March in opposition to Violence: London is a comparatively secure metropolis in contrast with most massive cities around the globe. It’s homicide charge of 1.38 per 100,000 inhabitants compares favourably with most others, and it’s nowhere near these within the prime 50 -which all have charges over 28 occasions as excessive.
It’s also significantly decrease than any massive metropolis in america – which occupy eight locations within the worst 50 cities for murders – with New Orleans at 70.56 close to the highest – solely decrease than some Mexican cities.
I’ve walked the streets of London carrying costly cameras because the Seventies and luckily have but to be mugged or attacked. I’ve had my pocket picked a few occasions, seen drug sellers at work and refused affords from them and girls providing me an excellent time, been threatened and assaulted by right-wing thugs and policemen (a part of the job in the event you {photograph} protests) however usually London is a secure metropolis.
It annoys me when some People preserve asking about ‘no go’ areas in London (or different UK cities.) There are none. London is a metropolis you may usually safely go anyplace within the public realm, although in fact in the event you ask for bother yow will discover it.
London isn’t crime-free. And there are some people who find themselves extra in danger than others. Ladies strolling alone at evening in lonely locations do typically get attacked by male intercourse offenders. Many are sexually assaulted and some are horribly killed. A few of these murders make the nationwide headlines, similar to that of Sarah Everard, killed by a police officer. However reasonably extra girls are killed of their properties, most frequently by males they know – an issue of male violence reasonably than London streets.
In a single latest yr there have been over 18,000 stories of sexual assaults in London. However sexual assaults usually go unreported, and it’s tough to know what number of of those had been on our streets. And though it’s a disgracefully excessive determine it really exhibits London as beneath the speed for the nation as a complete.
Most vulnerable to being murdered on London’s streets are teenage males. Most are stabbed in crimes regarding gangs and medicines. There have been 12,786 knife offences in London within the yr ending March 2023, slightly down on the figures for 2017-2020. The figures embody these carrying a knife, proudly owning a banned knife, attempting to purchase a knife if you’re underneath 18, and/or threatening, injuring or fatally wounding somebody with a knife. 63 of those offences killed somebody in London.
After all one homicide is one too many, and all end result within the waste of a life and quite a lot of grief for the households and associates of these killed. There have been varied native initiatives and teams set as much as attempt to lower down the deaths, and a few have not less than some small impact however usually the numbers preserve rising – although Covid noticed a fall. Varied newspaper articles and TV investigations have lined features of the topic, similar to this in a sequence from Channel 4 Information.
I’ve photographed quite a lot of the protests and marches, usually organised by bereaved households and its not potential to be unmoved, although typically I’ve felt that the options a few of these talking counsel would have little or no impact.
Knives are necessary in all of our lives, and within the common kitchen yow will discover fairly a set of knives which might simply be used to kill. We have to change society extra usually and importantly the best way we elevate, train and occupy younger kids, giving them a greater objective in life and a way of their very own value and talents.
All the photographs right here come from the Hackney Million Moms March on Sunday twenty third August 2009, happening as part of a world peace parade to have fun the tenth anniversary of Moms In opposition to Violence, moms from bereaved households who’re having an actual influence in lowering gun, gang and knife crime, and to pledge motion in Hackney over the problem.
The march was organised by Songololo Toes, Pal’s Charity, Hackney Council for Voluntary Service (HCVS), Worldwide Motion in opposition to Small Arms (IANSA), St. John’s Church and The Crib, a local people group which “delivers inventive and galvanizing initiatives for younger folks in Hackney”.
Extra footage at Hackney Million Moms March. You can too examine a associated occasion I photographed the day earlier than this on twenty second August 2009 at LIVE & FAME In opposition to Knife Crime.
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