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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, seems incapable of tackling the problem. He has repeatedly touted the so-called public-health approach to knife crime. This treats violence like an ‘infection’ or a ‘preventable disease’. But it clearly isn’t working. It barely scrapes the surface of what is a serious and deep-seated problem
We need to start acknowledging that there is a nihilistic culture of victimhood flourishing among a large swathe of young people today. It has made too many of them believe that life is cheap, and that it means nothing to stick a knife into the body of another young person. This culture encourages young people to see themselves as victims of the world around them. And it pushes some of them to think that there is no alternative to a life of crime, serious violence and inevitable incarceration.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, seems incapable of tackling the problem. He has repeatedly touted the so-called public-health approach to knife crime. This treats violence like an ‘infection’ or a ‘preventable disease’. But it clearly isn’t working. It barely scrapes the surface of what is a serious and deep-seated problem
We need to start acknowledging that there is a nihilistic culture of victimhood flourishing among a large swathe of young people today. It has made too many of them believe that life is cheap, and that it means nothing to stick a knife into the body of another young person. This culture encourages young people to see themselves as victims of the world around them. And it pushes some of them to think that there is no alternative to a life of crime, serious violence and inevitable incarceration.