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Let's get into this, man. Stories over a three month period from the front line of the epidemic of knife-crime and grip. They're just that thing. My brain was telling me, your brain was telling you that you and I are really like you and I are tough. We're just killing each other on this pointless. Still early, the guys are tipping out the pubs yet. Absolutely, anything could happen tomorrow. Let's face it, it doesn't take much to get stabbed in our society today. Let's be with you. Okay, I'm not gonna lie, the cinematography in this looks absolutely stunning. BBC should go back to this. We don't wanna hear no more interviews. Just go back to this type of stuff. Give us all documentaries that I can react to. That'd be great. On any given day in Britain, a knife attack will intrude on a young life. The youngest to die so far this year, just 14. How best to give our youth a chance? We've been trying to find out with the help of one of the busiest trauma centres. That's right. It's, what, just after one in the morning. We've been here now for five days and there have been seven in all stabbing victims admitted to the Royal London. So, at least one a day. And what's really sad is that the staff say it's been a slow week. Literally, I was about to say that. That sounds like that's good that it's a slow week, you know what I'm saying? Nobody wants to go endure that. But like, I don't know, like, I feel like people don't really get the, like I get it, this is London, it's a lot smaller than Chicago, but like people don't really get the severity of what be going on in Chicago. They said seven in five days in a month in Chicago, there's like 300. Let me, no, no, no, I'm reaching. In a month, there's probably like, nah, I'm not reaching. I feel like I'm not reaching. Like gunshot wounds entering the Chicago hospital, they gotta be like, it's gotta be touching two, three on it. Yeah. Cause unalivings is touching a thousand, 800, 700, a thousand, you know what I'm saying? Like what was the last holiday? Fourth of July, I didn't hear nothing, but like Memorial Day, like it was like 70, wasn't it like 70 gunshot wounds on Memorial? I might be exaggerating, but like it was up there. Maybe not 70, like 20. This is 16 year old Lucas, an approximately 1630. He's been allegedly assaulted by a group of people and sustained a singles incision wound to the left upper quadrant. Lucas Perry has been stabbed in the chest. One of two knifes. That's a crazy name, my boy. Salute, though. I was about to say it, but then I read it. That's my 200th follower though. Salute to you. Tim's admitted to the Royal London Hospital this evening. His painkillers haven't kicked in. Okay, chest x-ray, complete the primary with a D. Consultant Martin Griffiths will soon operate on Lucas. He's stabilized, but nothing's certain. How you doing? I'm right here. Open your eyes. Oh, definitely. Sounds like you got a collapsed lung. Look at me. What's up my hand? What's your name? How old are you? 16. And what happened to you? I would've, yo, Doc, get me to the operating room. I don't want to talk. The attacker's knife pierced his liver and punctured his stomach after Lucas refused to hand over his bike and phone to a group of teen robbers. Got a phone call, got my phone. If you're getting robbed at any type of gun point, knife point, give it up. It's not, it's not, you're not a BITCH if you give it up, man. You just value your life. Simple as that. Give it up. They've been stabbed. Just can't believe. I just, it's absolutely awful. I just got to open them up and see where the knife's gone, what it's hit, and take it from there, really. There's not things that could go wrong. Lucas was randomly assaulted, but a rising number of victims are being specifically targeted by people who know what they're doing. We know we're seeing a lot more, that 10% rise year on year, and we get the feeling we're seeing more complex wounds in areas with BITCH-draught-to-get-a-junction areas like the neck and the groin, and that suggests that there's a movement towards more severe wounds, more numbers of wounds so individual people get more wounded in more dangerous areas that require the expertise of our service. That definitely ain't seen. What's going on there? What's going on out there? I hope it's just a blip. I worry that there's a change in attitude towards knife injury, the people becoming better educated and how to cause more damage. That ain't no blip, it's just people just becoming more savage. People turning a savage up, unfortunately. I don't condone that. You too, I'm just saying, I'm just giving you the reality of what it is. Those often first on the scene, the paramedics have noticed the trend too. In the last year or two years, we've seen more iniquity and disparity. We haven't looked at stab wounds and the frequency as well. It's a 17-year-old slashed seven, eight times in the buttocks, lower back, really deep wounds. Martin is very, very worried because this man has lost a lot of blood. He's going to be touching them. Another victim comes in, I'm telling you, I would hate to get stabbed. Abbed in a targeted strike several times, one patient who didn't want us to show his face had been cut around the buttocks and the surgeon who treated him speculated his attackers were hoping to permanently damage his anus. They're just trying to get that man a Glasgow send-off? That's crazy. Seeing him to use a colostomy bag. One example of the... You see what I'm saying? You see what type of person this is? You see what type of person yields a knife? They were aiming to do that. You see where your mindset is? Look at this, this is wild. Twisted nature of the story of knife crime. A veteran of all the violence, Martin Griffiths has now been appointed the National Health Service's Violent Crime Reduction Chief for London to educate wider society on the causes of knife crime to find solutions. Let's strip away convention show. Let's strip away what we expect to happen in our lives. Let's strip away resource, shelter, warmth, comfort, parenting, structure. Let's introduce chaotic parenting, inconsistent food, inconsistent shelter, no aspiration rather than no aspiration and a group or a society around you in which that behaviour isn't the norm. Hey. Yeah, I ain't even gonna try to get this one. I know this one getting... Mm-mm! And put around that a big fence of which people are judging you from and deem you as being worthless. And let's give you no access to get out of that place. And let's see how you behave. What will happen? It's gonna be explosive. It might be positive. I got stabbed in my arms seven times and my trigger finger still works. Went left couldn't get much worse. I was in a bus with a nurse and I still flirt. Today's poet's writers and musicians have a shadow of a night man asked a rapper Michael Pauldin. That's L.R., yo. Unfortunately, it's from his eminute video. I got stabbed 11 times recently and what am I meant to do is stay in my house. Hell, yeah. Boy, you better go get put up. How many times has it been? You done got sliced seven, 20 times. Man, it's time to give up, retire. Stay home. All right. Yeah, move. You are not good at whatever you're doing out there. Give it up. That's what that, you know what I mean? This time, a blade has injured tendons in his left arm and may have severed an artery going into his wrist. He shines away from telling us exactly what happened. So I could make a song. I've got stabbed 11 times. I could have made a song that week, talk in the talk and got millions of views. Michael, that's pretty bad. No, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not a song called, It's Not Not Bad. He's now trying to escape a world where violence is glamorised, but no longer suggesting it's cool to carry. But the bottom line is there is not one borough on the whole of this map in London that is not affected by youth violence and has not been affected by young people being murdered on the streets. And that's the reality. And, you know, the fact that we're living in a society where this is normal, how is that acceptable? Children being murdered on the street. Roshin Kevel works alongside Martin Griffiths and outreach worker. She offers the support some families need to prevent young people from turning to violence. If you're big enough to be walking around with a knife and thinking you're bad enough, but the reality is, is these kids don't fully understand, they fully don't comprehend. It don't even be that most of the time, man. People walk around with weapons out of fear. You know what I'm saying? Out of fear. Now, yeah, there's a couple of people that's just doing it like, that's overly savage, but a lot of people, like, majority, are moving like that out of fear. Because how many of them I do wonder actually intend to murder? Some do, I reckon, because of the level of violence that, you know, they inflict on their victims. But I don't believe that they set out on that day. Yeah, I'm gonna go murder someone. A huge concern is revenge attacks. And ultimately, the aim is to stop those young people from getting re-admitted back here. Getting re-admitted or becoming perpetrators. Because whether they're re-admitted, that's another trauma. Or if they become perpetrators, that's an even bigger trauma. Stopping them turning from victims. To perpetrator. Right. Where they're letting... Yeah, she wouldn't, she wouldn't. She wouldn't. End up in a criminal justice. Like, no offense when I say this. Like, when I see women of this skin complexion and they date in black men, which is cool. 100% do what you do, you know what I'm saying? I don't discriminate as well, you know what I'm saying? But like, you could never understand. You know, dating a black man is the closest you'll ever get to understanding his world. Now, if you have black children, then you're gonna fully understand. You're gonna fully understand the level and you have to raise those children with those expectations and that mindset that these things could happen. That's when your world gotta really open up. Just as them where they could end up being, you know, responsible for taking someone's life. I came on duty one day to a 17-year-old in one of our beds who'd murdered one of my clients the night before. Hey. And he got 17 years. He was 17, he looked 15. But I told him when I met him, because I don't know if he was fully responsible for that young person's death. I know now he's been charged and he's doing a life sentence. But I said to him, you don't need- He's not doing a life sentence, he's doing 17 years. He'll be out at 34. You can understand the enormity of what you've done. You cannot fathom it. I said, but if you are not guilty, you're good, isn't it? But if you are guilty, you better start praying, you better start repenting. You need to do something because eventually the enormity of what you have done last night is gonna take its toll and it's gonna weigh you down and it's gonna hurt you emotionally and mentally. But some seem willing to accept that gift for the rush of revenge. Hi, it's Will from Boogalore. Two swallows here. Meet Jermaine, a nightclub bouncer who was attacked for refusing entry to one customer. So this guy cut my face because he thought he was disrespected. It's a respect thing. Makes sense. It's like people are fighting for territories, people are fighting for respect. Back in the day, this would be so disrespectful that he cut my face. Back in the day, I'd have to prove a point that I haven't gone weak. So after getting back, it's pointless because we're killing each other. It's black on black. We're just killing each other and it's pointless. That do be a lot of it. In Chicago, a couple of years ago, a bouncer got murdered or unalived for rift, so because he refused entry for somebody. On the wind, another emergency. The anguish was overwhelming for Frieda and Peter Muller when they found out their son, Gardie, had been stabbed. The 15-year-old is now recovering. He was attacked on his way home from football training. Let him be alive, God, please let him be alive. That was my concern at that point. Those were my feelings as a mom. What I actually remember is I heard I got stabbed here, as you can see the things there, and I got... Come on, camera! So weird he's talking. I got stabbed here. And I didn't see him, actually, aim for that. But I didn't know. And then I remember him stabbing me here and I think I tried to grab the knife or something, and then I was just screaming. And those few minutes of violence and now forcing this family to question everything. So they're saying the best thing to do is to move out of the area. And that's the fear. It shouldn't be like that. It's not new. So you just got to live with it. But for Gardie, there's a realism fueled by social media. You're able to talk to this kid, too. Because situations like this, when you minding your own business, walking down the street, coming from door in the right stuff, and you get randomly attacked, this will turn you into... This will turn young men into K-I-L-L-E-R-S's. This will do that. Because he'll go home and be like, bro, I'll never be a victim again. And he'll get right. He'll hit, you know what I'm saying? And he'll make sure anybody moving funny around him, he'll never like again. Like, you got to walk... You got to talk him through that and make sure he cool. As a peering, I'd probably move for sure. They're always showing you videos of people getting stabbed. Yeah. Or they're showing you pictures of, like, police, they'll say they caught someone with this, and then someone that was there at the time took a picture of the actual weapon used, and it would be a knife or a gun. And it's like, you look at it and you're like, well, it's London, so... Social media always, like, portraying it everywhere. We are dealing with a generation that are angry, that are disheartened, that have been neglected, that are let down, that no one really cares about. That's why Rosheen and her colleagues tried to talk to stab victims straight after their surgery to tackle their emotional as well as physical injuries. If you've got a parent who's substance misuse or mental health or there's domestic violence, you cannot nurture that child as much as that child really needs nurturing, because you're consumed with whatever you're holding as the adult. But does it depress you? You know, seeing this all the time? Oh, it breaks my heart. Because you're seeing... It depends if the show is on YouTube or not. Children, you're seeing f... We're talking, like, after this show, talk to me. Amelies, his lives are destroyed. You know, I had a young person here a couple of weeks ago. His mom found out on Snapchat. She found out on Snapchat that her child had been stabbed. That's... What does that say about society? After receiving the treatment he needs, Michael discharged himself and is heading home. She worried about going back out there onto the streets? Not worried. I'm not worried. Nah, because he kind of like... This guy, I don't know. He gives me a weird vibe. I feel like he'd be putting himself in situations so he can go back and rap about it. He's got to be, I think, more aware and more on point. If you know other people are rolling or carrying things like that, then you're going to carry things like that to protect yourself, also. And then it becomes a spiral. That affects... Do you carry a knife? I used to. My little brother's been stabbed as well. Which one? The 21-year-old? Yeah. He carry a knife? He recently got arrested for carrying a knife. And is that the problem that a lot of young men have in London? That fear that they're going to be attacked? So they've got to carry? Told you. And as a result, it's a spiral that just goes on and on. I've probably seen or heard about a friend or something that's happened to them, and they think, oh, I'm going to safeguard myself and I'm going to carry this to protect myself. I don't want that to happen to me. So it's part of the game, isn't it? That's what I think. What game? Life? Yeah, it's part of... It's part of life? Part of... Part of being in London, a young man in London? Yeah, maybe part of growing up in London. It gets like that. I think so. I can't sleep well at night because sometimes I'm still up because I'm just, like, paranoid or just, like... I think about it and I don't want to sleep. So, you know, it's one of those things. Back at home, Gardi is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks of the day he was stabbed. It's called PTSD. The streets that gave you PTSD, victimless crimes that gave you PTSD, anything can give you PTSD. It ain't just a war thing for the veterans. Salute to the veterans though, but... These guys, they come up to us. Like, they said, where are you guys from? And then I just froze. Everything just froze. Like, I didn't know what to say. Then my friend left the back and he just said, Brun. I trip over. Like, I'm stumbling. I don't even remember him stabbing me here and stuff. And then he actually got me here. I was bleeding. I was bleeding. And then, like, so it was a blood support. And now I was just holding it tight, squeezing it. I told myself, what I'm gonna do is keep calm at that time. Like, you don't panic, because if I panic, then you never know, because your heart starts racing. And then, like, like, you know, you're just scared. Like, it's more that if you panic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. If you panic in these situations, you gotta think about how the body works. You panic, your blood pressure rises. You got open wounds. Even more, you got to... All right now. Like, if you panic, if I panic, I feel like I'll have to pass the win. If I was, like, panicking, and I didn't know what to do, I'd have to pass the win. But in that situation, I told myself, just keep calm. W.K. Football eases his mind. Helps dispel the memories. And he's good, hoping to turn professional. He's built a life around football, where he lives, and doesn't want to leave because of what happened. But his family's first instinct is to escape. If you're not safe, there's no way you're going to play football. If you're not safe, you're not going to do the GCSE. But there's a tension. Moving away from this part of London, will that give you peace of mind? Probably it will give a little bit peace of mind, because... The dilemma of a decent family. That's what I'm saying. His situation really turned people and kids into savages. Being driven away by a violence that's staying put. I'm leaving. I'm completely against it, to be honest. Because I have football and I have school. You don't know if I'm going to put it just against the fact of leaving. It's not that they targeted me, though. I know, I know, I know. It's like, about me being safe, it's like, I know. Because I'm not involved with anything. I know. Why would they come attack an innocent person? Why? Everything. You're all right. You're all right. Cool. Six weeks later, Gadi is catching up with Levine Smith, his case worker from the St. Giles Trust. She's been providing... I always feel like when people do that, when people harass civilians, they don't really want no smoke with their real ops. That'd be my main process in my head. Because if you out on a road and you doing this and that, you probably got some real pagans. You probably got some real ops. But you're choosing to mess with civilians. You know these civilians, ain't you, ops? So coming up to me, you're asking me, where are you from? No, and I'm not... You know I'm not... If you got to ask me where I'm from, you know I'm not your... You know I'm not your... I'm from somewhere that you don't know nothing about, apparently. So what do I got to do with anything? If you're looking for your ops, go on, they block. You know exactly where they be. Not saying that I condone this. All I'm saying to say this is leave the civilians alone. They're civilians. And with added support for the moment, he was stabbed. They've been supportive and... They said they were going to refer me to a counselor or something like that, and I said, I'll think about it. I'll be lying in bed and I'll just get frustrated sometimes. And I'll just be angry sometimes. You know what I mean? Stuff like that. Why him? Why all the other victims of knife crime? So many young lives disrupted. See, BBC don't even know what's really going on. When he land in that bed, he's really thinking, why me? Why me? Should I really give him a reason? Should I go spend? Should I get on that? That's what he really thinking. At the point you're played, Lucas's operation lasted two hours, but it wouldn't go straight through you. It goes through the muscles and into your liver, front and back, right through your liver, and it hits the stomach and goes and puts a hole in your stomach. Studying self. He saw and on the mend. But what about his family? All of you have been traumatised by this. All of you. You want to look all right. If you look all right, you're probably not all right. OK? So it's going to be a long process, not six weeks, not six months. It can be years before you're back in a happier place. Being home will help that process, and we catch up with... You'll know how it's going to noise. Lucas, a few days after being discharged... You're OK now, are you? Yeah, I'm good now. He's now finally able to tell me what happened. They just sort of put it at nice, but I didn't. I'm not going to run away. What were they after? Well, Lucas, next time around. I didn't want to push back or something. I was on the phone, but then I came over because he was trying to stab one of my mates, so... Come over and just stab me. Well, I think it's just the way the youngsters now think. It's just one of those things. You hear of it happening so often. I can't even lie. Lucas did not run. He didn't... He backed his boy. He paid the cars for it, but, you know... It's just... It's just life. It's just something that could happen in their lifetime. He top dog at school at that point, you know? If you're walking along the streets and you see them, what's going to happen? Obviously, I want them to go for that. I want them to feel what I feel, but I wouldn't stab them. I don't think... I don't know, Luke. I think Luke is on that now. Edmonton, in most ways. A youth on a mo-head joins two other men attacking with knives in broad daylight. A young man into the floor. The shouts of onlookers have no effect. They slash and cut with impunity as normal life goes on around. As the attackers escape, one of the weapons clearly visible. Onlookers then try to help. An ambulance eventually arrived and took the victim to hospital. He survives, but this was a warning. They'd have killed him if they felt like it. The attack and everyday reality in many of our cities where did society go wrong? A consensus is now developing that tackling knife crime needs a holistic approach, that the perpetrators, as well as the victims, must be treated with some degree of understanding. I'm angry. Not with these young boys, not with their parents, but with the societies that's failed, not just once or twice, but throughout their entire lives and allow that to create a situation where violence is part and parcel of how they pretend to be. And they're all victims of violence. They're not perpetrators. Every person I see who's been stabbed or shot has had somebody. Yes, it's always the victims that you're going to see. People that are involved are doing it. They never get, you know what I'm saying? The criminals never get caught. Can't defend themselves. Use a weapon on them. And they deserve my help. I know it's easy to fall into that sort of abusive apathy and negativity about the lives of these people. These boys, these things happen to them and them and them and them and them and them and tolerate it. But no, I know that every single one of these kids doesn't want the life they've got. But when you are coming deep down, they don't want the fear of anxiety or the stress. When you understand the rules of the game, you understand what happens. And can you see that it's kind of oozing here? Yes. Why I was about to say, what happened? His whole arm off. In the battle against knife crime, teenagers in parts of London now have the option of learning life-saving skills alongside their studies. How long? Until the prime medicine. Yeah, I'd say so. Martin's team is trying to raise awareness. It's come to this. Innocency raised at so young an age, but the fake blood may just save real lives and make a young person think twice about carrying a knife. So what happens if you're out until you find out someone's carrying a knife? What are you going to do? Tell them, what do you think you're doing? LAUGHTER I didn't find the humour in it. You can go to the police. Yeah, it's because you're scared. No, we've got, like, going to the police. So you're going to tell me that it's good to carry? No, no. It's not good at all, but, like, from the... Because I can hold, like, some of the people that I know, and not I know, but I've heard, like, these gangs of rivalries that they're in, they think it plays some significance in their life and they don't really understand the impact in the long term that can bring them if they get hurt or are in danger. I don't know, someone, like, won't like another person and then all of these people that are friends with people just have a reason not to, like, another person. Mm-hmm. Just escalate. We've been carried. I'm not evil people. Some of these people don't even know what the beef is. They just... they just... continue on it. They do it for fear, do it for protection, they do it out of peer pressure, do it to be part of their gang, do it because that's what everybody else does, because no one else doesn't do it. But knives make you more likely to be violent, because it's in your pocket, and you can use it. Any big metropolis is burdened by the capacity of a few for violence that will never go away. But when it comes to rising levels of knife crime, Martin Griffiths argues things can change if society appreciates the true nature of the problem. After three months filming on the front line of this crisis, the complexity of the issue is clear, less so, perhaps, the solution. Yeah, yeah, there you go. That's a good way to wrap it up. The complexity of it is severe. I mean, it's clear, but the situation is not violent. Violence will never be solved. Like gang violence or any type of violence will never be cured. You just got to know how to manage it, man. Till I leave a like comment, I'm gone.