Chemical attack in London...

Roar87 said:
I like London, the food is great, the transport is good, I love the history and the museums. It's just a shame that we let it go and it's not the same place it was 25 years ago.
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We didn't let it go. London in the late 90's was a bit **** other than the nightclubs.

The food is better than ever, TFL tubes are particularly good now and the trains have improved massively. I felt more unsafe in Brixton back then than I have recently.

And the old Wembley Stadium was awful, I remember seeing Oasis there and the facilities were so poor people were ******* in the sinks

Unfortunately the wealth gap has only grown wider. London is a place I would love to live if I was a millionaire. Not so much if I was on the breadline.
 
413x said:
I need a badge.

Have to say, racism or not, my mind jumped to that. Not sure if it's because we hear about it more when it is someone from that background or its genuinely a correlation. But it's what I thought.
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You'd sound like less of a total douche if you just said "I bet it was a darkie and I was right" instead of fannying around with this coy 'just saying' BS.
 
mid_gen said:
You'd sound like less of a total douche if you just said "I bet it was a darkie and I was right" instead of fannying around with this coy 'just saying' BS.
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I'm not really sure what else you want me to say?

Yes. I saw the attack, and when it became clear that the victim (a woman) was the attacked and the attacker (a man) was known to them?
Yes. That's what I thought by default.
 
413x said:
I'm not really sure what else you want me to say?

Yes. I saw the attack, and when it became clear that the victim (a woman) was the attacked and the attacker (a man) was known to them?
Yes. That's what I thought by default.
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It's like Dai with a box of matches in the nineteen seventies. ;)
 
There is a common understanding of acid attacks in the UK that goes something like this: the attacker is male; the victim female. Both are South Asian, and the violence has something to do with the man’s so-called ‘honour'.
But the most comprehensive set of data yet on acid attacks in London paints a different picture.
Statistics released by London’s Metropolitan Police to the BBC provide a breakdown of every recorded acid attack over a 15-year period by age, gender, ethnicity, borough, hate crime and outcome. It’s the fullest picture yet of the capital’s suspects and victims.
The findings include:
  • The suspect was male 74% of the time and victim was male 67% of the time
  • Just 6% of suspects were Asian
  • Only one so-called ‘honour’ attack was recorded in 15 years
  • Four out of five violent offences never reached trial
The figures appear to contradict a belief that a relative majority of acid attacks involve the South Asian diaspora.
“Definitely not,” said Detective Superintendent Mike West, the Metropolitan police lead on acid attacks, who has reviewed the figures. “That does not ring true. It’s very mixed from various religions, backgrounds, different victims, different offenders.”
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In reality, just 6% of all suspects in London over the last 15 years were Asian.
For the same period (2002-16), 'White Europeans' comprised 32% of suspects, and African Caribbeans 38% of suspects. About one in five suspects remain unknown – either because they can’t be identified, or because the victim has refused to identify them.
“The figures do suggest a lower number of Asian offenders,” said Dr Tara Young, a Criminal Justice and Criminology lecturer at the University of Kent. “However, there is a growing proportion of unknowns – and we don’t know if these contain a significant number of White European perpetrators or Asian perpetrators.”
The number of Asian victims is 421 – around one fifth of the 2,196 total for the 15-year period. Almost half the victims (987) are White European, and one quarter (557) are African Caribbean.
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Everything you know about acid attacks is wrong

Everything you know about acid attacks is wrong
www.bbc.co.uk
 
413x said:
Not going to lie. I'm not surprised by the name. Just saying
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I find it weird that so many people are inclined to air their prejudices, whatever the reality.
 
Craterloads said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Everything you know about acid attacks is wrong

Everything you know about acid attacks is wrong
www.bbc.co.uk
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Firstly this wasn't an acid attack and secondly, context matters! That some black youths in London say have found acid useful in their gang disputes is irrelevant to the issue re: using some chemical substance to disfigure someone within the context of an honour attack. And there is a longstanding issue with honour related attacks in general in some communities:

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'Honour' attack numbers revealed by UK police forces

Police across the UK recorded more than 2,800 so-called honour attacks last year, with a number of forces seeing incidents increase, figures show.
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UK police recorded at least 2,823 so-called honour attacks last year, figures from 39 out of 52 forces show.
A freedom of information request by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (Ikwro) revealed that nearly 500 of these were in London.
Among the 12 forces also able to provide figures from 2009, there was an overall 47% rise in such incidents.
Honour attacks are punishments on people, usually women, for acts deemed to have brought shame on their family.

Such attacks can include acid attacks, abduction, mutilations, beatings and in some cases, murder.
Ikwro said its research, carried out between July and November, is the best national estimate so far of the extent of honour violence in Britain, although the charity says the figures do not give the full picture.
They found that eight police forces had recorded more than 100 honour-based attacks each in 2010.
The Metropolitan Police had the most at 495, followed by West Midlands (378), West Yorkshire (350), Lancashire (227), Greater Manchester (189), Cleveland (153), Suffolk (118) and Bedfordshire (117).
Of the 12 police forces able to provide 2009 comparison figures, nine recorded a rise in attacks and three saw totals fall.
The biggest rise was in Northumbria, which saw figures leap by 305% from 17 in 2009 to 69 in 2010, followed by a 154% jump in Cambridgeshire from 11 to 28.
A quarter of police forces in the UK were unable or unwilling to provide data and communities have often been reluctant to talk about the crime, Ikwro said.
Its director Diana Nammi said families often tried to deny the existence of honour attacks and those who carried them out were "very much respected".
She told the BBC: "The perpetrators will be even considered as a hero within the community because he is the one defending the family and community's honour and reputation."
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Sankari said:
You're getting close, now drill down just a little further.
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Well, i looked at some stats from the met for 2021

46% of suspects were white European,
12% were asian
32% African-Caribbean

so not an obvious pattern, given the ethnic breakdown in london .

50% were aged under 30



So statistically we are looking at young white men as the common attributes
 
D.P. said:
Well, i looked at some stats from the met for 2021

46% of suspects were white European,
12% were asian
32% African-Caribbean

so not an obvious pattern, given the ethnic breakdown in london .

50% were aged under 30



So statistically we are looking at young white men as the common attributes
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No not really if 50% of the attacks were from 80% of the population 12% were from 8% and 32% were from about 12% of the population.

Percentages approximate, but statistically it would be a young black man.
 
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