All this violence on the streets, raises a number of questions that i think we are afraid of, and they are to do with what we do with violent criminals, how we police violence and back to many posts about community…why does this violence continue to happen. Draconian measures against violent crime or zero tolerance do appear in the short term to have an effect but in the long term have proven not to work, in a totalitarian or quasi totalitarian regime, other factors come into play. In Uk society The Rule of Law is implemented by consent, its why you stop at a red traffic light, many people committing street violence are not consenting to the rule of law, community or society, but they are a small part of violent crime. Much of our violent crime is actually domestic violence and goes on behind closed doors. In our complex society part of our problem appears to be that we do not police ourselves as we no longer have a moral framework or organisations such as churches, political parties, community organisations or even familes that can lay claim to a moral highground and exert that pressure, or how to offer the love and inclusion that keeps many of us on the right track. No one knows the right ways to behave, we are insular and often alienated from each other, not just by money and our social fabric but by accents, social mores, age, cultural and ethnic differences and so on. For those reading this ask yourself a question… how well do you know young people, or are they an undiscovered country. Ask any of us over 29 even those with children how well we know young people and i hazard a guess not much….how well did your parents or older people in your community when you were young really know you? In addition I think the Gap between reality and virtual reality has become blurred, our over stimulated multi media world does not really give us a good idea of whats good and bad. Violence breeds violence, this you can see in Iraq but is harder to understand in the street, yet millions have been spent on killing Iraqis, Congolese, Afghans Americans British and so on. If I was young i would want to know why we are upset at one murder in the UK streets compared to our lack of interest in the thousands murdered systematically in war….And the millions spent, what sort of better community could young people have if those millions had gone for constructive projects in the comunity instead of guns and death. Some one once said young people are our future…THEY ARE NOT …They are our Present.

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