Stabbing on Cheltenham road Sunday 6pm..

[einar]

Young man was stabbed/ robbed on Cheltenham road, near the junction of Reynolds road. Did anybody see anything.. sounds like the assailant was wearing a yellow jacket and running down Cheltenham Rd towards ivydale Rd.

[dbboy]

This is the second stabbing locally this weekend, on the ITV Local news it was reported that a stabbing had taken place on Marmora Road.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/murder-investigation-launched-after-man-60-stabbed-to-death-in-south-london-a3708251.html

[DulwichFox]

And the Mayor Sidiq Khan does nothing to give the Police more power to help reduce Knife Crime.

More concerned about air quality. You are more likely to be a victim of Violent Crime than you are

to die of poor air quality.

#Priorities

DulwichFox

[hpsaucey]

But both are important and priorities!

Back on message hope the young man attacked is recovering?

Hp

[Penguin68]

The attached link suggest that 5,900 Londoners die annually as a consequence of air pollution (early deaths) - slightly more than London knife crime fatalities I would suggest.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/06/london-breaches-toxic-air-pollution-limit-for-2017-in-just-five-days

[DulwichFox]

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> The attached link suggest that 5,900 Londoners die

> annually as a consequence of air pollution (early

> deaths) - slightly more than London knife crime

> fatalities I would suggest.

>

> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/0

> 6/london-breaches-toxic-air-pollution-limit-for-20

> 17-in-just-five-days

That's for the whole of London. and how many of them were smokers with respiratory problems. ?

How many of those lived in the Vicinity of East Dulwich /Peckham 1/2 mile apart. in a few days.

DulwichFox

[rendelharris]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> And the Mayor Sidiq Khan does nothing to give the

> Police more power to help reduce Knife Crime.

>

> More concerned about air quality. You are more

> likely to be a victim of Violent Crime than you

> are

> to die of poor air quality.

> #Priorities

A) Nonsense, as noted above B) Khan has introduced several initiatives to help fight knife crime C) extension of police powers has to come from the Home Office, not the Mayor and D) the biggest thing the police need is more resources - their budget has been slashed by central government.

Other than that, spot on.

ETA and it's spelled Sadiq, at least get that right.

[Blah Blah]

Yes, some people seem to convenirently forget that 20,000 police officers have been lost since the coalition came to power and stations have closed as the Met tries to cope with cuts. There is not a lot the mayor of any party colour can do about that, let alone one in opposition.

There is little that can be done by the Police to stop knife crime anyway. This is why inititatives are more about pursuading people to not carry knives in the first place. But then again, there have also been massive cuts to youth services and other mentoring programmes (we can even throw Safer Neighbourhood Teams in there). Local authorities have seen central government funding cut by 40%. Everyone always wants better public services, but never thinks about where the money is coming from for that.

[Spaceat61]

Do you know what time this happened only my business is on Cheltenham Road and we were full of people in the morning and afternoon till 6pm. I can check if any of them saw anything.

[uncleglen]

I don't know how widespread the ineptitude is but in my brush with the police and the CPS 7 years ago , the system was in complete chaos so it does not matter what efforts the police put in to bring criminals to book- the efforts are not followed through.

We are now 22 years on from the killing of Philip Lawrence outside his school and the knife amnesty which followed and nothing has changed

Arches should have been installed at school gates back then, mandatory sentences for possession introduced back then....now anything is too little too late- glossy pamphlets are a waste of time and money.

Funny how ALL areas of the public sector think that the tax-payers' pockets are bottomless pits...

[einar]

Hi spaceat61, it happened about 6pm on Sunday please do check.