Bedfordshire's police and crime commissioner admits there's more to do to tackle knife crime

Bedfordshire's police and crime commissioner admits there's more to do to tackle knife crime

Bedfordshire’s police and crime commissioner John Tizard has admitted more needs to be done to tackle knife crime.

Child criminal exploitation survivor warns UK is failing young people caught in knife crime crisis - London Post

Sosa Henkoma knows exactly why young people carry knives, because he lived it. Groomed into a gang at just 11-years-old, he skipped the so-called “knife stage” and was handed a firearm and a bulletproof vest before he hit his teens. Now the 26-year-old London resident is a criminology student, youth mentor and anti-trafficking campaigner, and he’s warning that the UK’s response to knife crime is ignoring the root causes and punishing trauma. “We…