Last week, the Home Office proudly presented an initiative to label serving boxes used by 210 chicken shops across England and Wales with anti-knife crime messaging. “They use real life stories to show people how they can go #KnifeFree”, the official Twitter account wrote.
By taking the campaign into its own hands, and proposing it as a top-down solution to the problem, the government is abdicating responsibility for this crisis. By offering up token stories of redemption and correction they are sending the message that the state, and society in general, has no role in helping young people improve their lives. Instead, they suggest, it’s all up to the kids themselves.
"Witnessing friends die before they even reach their 20s because of knife crime, made all too clear by the nearly monthly eulogies on my friend’s Snapchat stories, has become a traumatising but ever present part of life. I’ve seen the systemic causes of knife crime unfold before my eyes."
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