{"id":41669,"date":"2024-12-06T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=41669"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:16:38","slug":"community-work-very-key-to-tackling-bristol-knife-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/12\/06\/community-work-very-key-to-tackling-bristol-knife-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Community work &#8216;very key&#8217; to tackling Bristol knife crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Knife-Video.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Music credit: Soft Fanfare, Charlie Lewis<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community work is \u201cvery key\u201d to tackling the increase in knife crime in Bristol, with many assailants believed to be teenagers, according to Avon and Somerset Police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the infamous murders of Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Knowle West as well as an unnamed teenager being stabbed outside McDonalds near the city centre, action is paramount.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the UK, knife-enabled crime increased by 4% in&nbsp;2024, with police recording 50,510 offences.&nbsp;This is a significant 78% increase over the past decade. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That\u2019s what neighbourhood policing is about, we need to be connected&#8230; builds confidence in the police and makes people more likely to report things to us,&#8221; Supt Mark Runacres said.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"Police have acknowledged the growing issue of Knife crime\" class=\"wp-image-41679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_101856-681x383.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Police have acknowledged the growing issue of Knife crime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bristol has many knife crime charities across the city such as Crimestoppers, Together for Change, The Ben Kinsella Trust and Fearless. The city also has multiple youth centres housing vulnerable young people. Some have decided to voice their concerns about this issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carl, a support worker at The Station youth centre in Bristol, expressed how the misconceived notions of today\u2019s youth has estranged adults from helping young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cIt\u2019s quite easy for us, as a society, to take the moral high ground&#8230;for some young people it\u2019s [their lives] a warzone!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young man from Afghanistan, whose requested to remain anonymous, expressed how he believes many young people are worried about knife crime in their local area: \u201cSome people use knives to get money.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to say that the strategy to avoid youth violence begins at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFirst thing, starts with father and mother telling their son &#8216;Don\u2019t do this, go to school, go to college&#8217;. Pay respect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, it seems that trust and respect are important with the Police, but they are just as important in the household. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"The Station houses many vulnerable to knife violence\" class=\"wp-image-41684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241205_170340-681x383.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Station houses many vulnerable to knife violence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community work is \u201cvery key\u201d to tackling the increase in knife crime in Bristol, with many assailants believed to be teenagers, according to Avon and Somerset Police. With the infamous murders of Max Dixon and Mason Rist in Knowle West as well as an unnamed teenager being stabbed outside McDonalds near the city centre, action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41866,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41669\/revisions\/41866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}