Why is there so much gun crime in the afro-caribbean community in the uk?

Question

Are there proportionally more afro-caribbeans in prisons in the UK than other races that are just as poor if not poorer (e.g. bangladeshis)? Are areas with a high proprtion of afro-caribbeans like brixton and lewisham the worst areas in London in terms of crime, grafitti, and quality of life? Does the afro-caribbean culture fail to promote education? Are a high proportion of afro-caribbean fathers absent relative to other races? Or are these unhelpful racial stereotypes?

Answer 1

Im from SE London.. (Lewisham to be exact) Im mixed race and im 23.
I feel that the reason why there is so much crime amongst the afro-carribean (and black full stop) is that these youths are left to run wild. The parents seem to have no control and let there kids roam street to all hours. You only have to walk past the parks and chicken shops in particular to see where they all accumulate to entertain each other by any means neccesairy.
Usually intimdating others.

When i was there age unless i gave my mother a valid reason for being out past 10-11 (i.e friends house, party) than my mother would have me indoors. Its almost as if, parents would rather have the 'what i dont see cant hurt'' attitude and its the wrong way to be bringing up these kids.

Also these teenagers have no respect for anyone.. black white, young or old.. they only respect what they fear these days, and thats Violence and street Credability.

Police have no hold over them, schools have no hold over them and the parents have no hold over them.

The bigger question is what are we destined for?

In defence.. i believe strongly that if the goverment set up youth based schemes like, DJ'ing courses or police run studios.. most youths are into there music these days.. its like a part of growing up, producing music and mc'ing. More needs to be done to give them options.. a hall with some paint and a football club that runs for a term is NOT enough..

Goverment would rather sit back and point the finger and spend millions on sheltering immagrants and asylum seekers whilst there own country is heading in to desturction by our children..

I think the saying the kids are the future is an understatment

Im not sure on what i feel as far as education failing out youth? If they want to learn they will. But i do no that through experience and through talking with some of these kids is that some teachers are intimidated by kids and are fast to stereotype a black boy in a hoody with a deep voice to be threatening and are fast to exclude them for minor thoughts and are backed by there unions.

Answer 2

If there are more afro-caribbeans in prisons in the U.K. then may be they are committing more crimes.You can go to any area in the U.k. now, and their is crime, so i think whether they are from brixton, or liverpool that is irrelevant.
Absent fathers is an excuse, their are lot of homes where 'dad is absent, and the children turn out to be accomplished citizens. A lot of it in my mind is 'peer pressure''.
Until the youths of to-day stop thinking that society 'owes' them, get off their bums and do something constructive with their lives then we we will have this problem for generations to come.

Answer 3

It does seem that gun culture is more prevalent among Afro Caribbeans, although hey are by no means the only violent ones on our streets. I agree that it is against the British way of life as we have always known it but why isn't the government doing more about it? Its gang warfare in my view, and it will get worse. The struggle for supremacy between rival gangs. We are seeing the disintegration of law and order and as usual we are allowing our weak kneed politicians to get away with doing little except talk about it! What makes Afro Caribbeans more culpable is their backgrounds. They are used to living like this in their previous lives. I am sorry if that sounds racist but if we are to deal with the problems we face we do need to know why we are facing them. It is cultural, but it is spreading

Answer 4

No they are not unhelpful but there are many that would say so. it is a MASSIVE problem in the UK. I watched a documentary during the week about it and I got no real answers except the socioeconomic pressures young men are under and the "Respek" issue and people like Fiddy Cent aren't helping. The local community leaders were nearly in tears with all the death and destruction.
I am originally form Belfast and I can tell you that shootings in the community really destroy the social fabric.

Answer 5

there are many ethnic areas of our inner cities where the police don't go except when they are armed and in large numbers.It is a shame because once this country was a good place to live with little serious crime. There are many good Black and Asian people but too many bad ones. Why we weren't more selective on whom we allowed to immigrate I do not know. I must say I mostly blame Socialist policies.

Answer 6

Well there's no smoke without fire(arms)
They are obviously predisposed to killing each other as unfortunately is the case in a many African countries.
I hear Jamaica is a little dangerous too.
It is very sad.

Answer 7

it is basically an after math of slavery....i have worked in lewisham in south east london and most jamaicans i have worked with are totally anti white because of the slavery days....they now wish to pay the white man back by bringing in drugs and gang running and by seeking social benefits as much as they can and by having as many kids as they can.

Answer 8

because all the little niggahs want to be gangstas. its image, glock n load... and theyre dying by the shedful. and will it stop them? n o, because some foul mouthed racist bigot, tells them to smack their ***** up...

we have a gun culture and itll kill lots more kids... plod is plodding, and getting nowhere fast. and now the asians are kicking off... supplied with guns from afghanistan and serbia, and kosova...

its teenagers fightiing teenagers..im 50, i just dont go to the part of town where when you see a redlight you dont stop, coz johnnys waving a gun a around, and theatening to blow his top... when an off duty cop snuck up on from behind...and slapped the cuffs on johnny 99... lyrics by bruce springsteen.

and these kids, unless theyre stopped, will rampage, and our local coppers are not capable of dealing with them... so, stop dicking around and send in the hard boys...put them up against the paras, or the marines... show them real violence and intern the lot of them...

Answer 9

There are 6 questions here. Each is really big! Try and break it down a bit.

Answer 10

cuz they use guns to commit crime not knives very much any more its considered macho wo have a gun in that culture they think they are big man so they use it