Chicken boxes filled with solutions for tackling knife crime are being taken to the Home Office, in response to the knife free campaign
A London duo are taking chicken boxes filled with solutions for tackling knife crime to the Home Office.It's a response to the, which features warnings about carrying knives inside takeaway boxes.
"Everybody was talking about it. We were getting WhatsApp messages from friends, we were getting involved in discussions on why this is so inappropriate. Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said the boxes"will bring home to thousands of young people the tragic consequences of carrying a knife and challenge the idea that it makes you safer".Some of the suggestions in the chicken boxes include"education in schools","investment in youth services", and paying attention to"family issues".
"Their mother could be grossly affected by poverty, maybe the dad's not around, maybe their cousins have been involved in gangs, so if you're pulling a young person from those circumstances, how are they to know right from wrong? "We're trying to speak to MPs and people with political power to take notice, because we don't want people's ideas to die.
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