As Londoners, knife crime is all of our problem. Small, casual moments of horrific violence send shock waves through our city daily. Overnight pop-up shrines and cordoned-off crime scenes appear, signifiers of lives cruelly ended and forever changed. Knife crime is a crisis we need to get to grips with urgently.
But how? The reasons for these tragic events are complex, myriad and, ultimately, embedded in poverty. Knife crime statistics are alarming and also confusing with the Mayor and the Government interpreting the numbers differently. Where do we start with such a nebulous yet deeply embedded problem? Listening seems as good a place as any.
