How Britain flamed the fans of its riot crisis....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/29/gang-violence-rises-as-councils-cut-youth-services


According to Scotland Yard the number of recorded knife-crime injuries in London went up from 941 to 1,070 in the three months between February and April this year compared with the previous three months; victims in the 13-24 age group injured during knife crime increased by more than 30% between 2008-09 and 2010-11.

Youth services, particularly those that prevent gang violence, have been savaged by local authorities because of government-imposed cuts. More than £100m was removed from local authority services for young people up to March this year, according to the Confederation of Heads of Young People's Services, which surveyed 41 of their members. Budget cuts imposed at the start of the financial year averaged 28%, but some local authorities were cutting 70%, 80% or even 100% of youth services, it said. Almost 3,000 full-time staff who work with youths have been lost.

Youth services have been cut in every area of the country. According to the union Unison, Norfolk, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire and Manchester part of a "growing number of local authorities planning to get rid of the youth service altogether". Birmingham is likely to reduce youth services by 50% over the next three years; Haringey and Hull local authorities have cut 75% of its their youth services; Warwickshire is facing an 80% cut; the prime minister's Witney constituency, in Oxfordshire, has closed 20 out of 27 youth centres – there is not a youth service in the country that remains untouched

Thank You Tories...you have blood on your hands..David Cameron is facing growing cabinet pressure to rethink the coalition's policing cuts...Cameron said the cuts would not lead to a "reduction in visible policing".....well, its certain led to him looking very foolish...he needs a vote of no confidence..

Yep, as always things are complicated... aren't they?

oh and inevitable caveat, getting it does not mean one condones it.

But that probably will be willfully ignored by many.

And this is the result. A decent, fair, robust economy with real education and jobs is the real solution.

The stop gap measures like youth services, summer jobs programs, etc. are compassionate restraints on the
inevitable reaction to an unjust economy, one with a permanent underclass.

The ruling financial elite is an utter failure. They have no imagination and lack any ability to earn real
money. They loot government treasuries and take whatever they can, without creating any new jobs, growth,
etc.

London has a police force that takes money from Murdoch for information and from information agents to track
people for those willing to pay. It has riots and an obvious problem with law and order. And it's investment
banks are the envy of the world and the source of so much of the crazy derivatives schemes. It's no wonder
the place is a disaster.

What they never foresaw is the historical fact that History has this unconvenient tendency to repeat itself when ignored...

NOW you understand why social programs are necessary. It's better to play for midnight basketball than it is to pay for a squadron of police to create a tyrannical society.

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