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Whose seen Scarface; Alcapcino; The Godfather; American Gangster and other films of that ilk, and of those of you whom are male, who wouldn't rate them as amonsgt their favourite films? These movies are fantacies for most of us, but in my view, are what a number of these so called 'gangster rappers' aspired too. They however, in the main were able to live that lifestyle, sing about it and realise the dream. Many young males, black and white suffer from poor education, limted job prospects, discrimination, etc If you were them, what/who do you aspire too - possibly someone you can identify with and something that someone else has made seem accessible? Unfortunately, the policies of the current government, in my view, are not taking account of the social impact of their decisions. Tuition fee rises; severe reductions in third sector,police service and social care funding will have a significant impact upon those young people who could, in the past, be caught by the system before their behaviour esculated. This problem will therefore get worse and not better. This type of crime increased by 8% in 2010 (it was decreasing before this) so brace yourself people. And yes, parents do need to take some responsibility, but how many of you know what your children are doing when they're not at home. And, although many of you may not be in the lower socio ecomonic class, imagine if all your thoughts were about paying your bills, keeping a roof over your head, feeding and clothing your kids - would you actually have the time to monitor your child's every movement? Wouldn't you be glad if they weren't pressing you for money every day? As the divide between the 'haves' and 'haves not' increases (see Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and many other countries) young people, like any other mammal, will find a way to survive (remember Slumdog millionaire!). Brace yourself people for the Big Society because I can guarantee you it will end in one Big Almight Mess(BAM!) I hope Daniel rests in peace and instead of sitting writing (in some cases) patronising and racist blogs we start to understand and get to grips with what happening in this country.

I lived in Dulwich for most of my life and the idea that stabbings, etc are just a recent occurence is rediculous. I remember not being able to walk from the bus stop in Lordship Lane by me self, in case I was chased by the NF or Teddy boys, young people and old (including my father) walked with a knife 'just in case' and just because Southwark Council have gentrified Dulwich, along with many other London Boroughs, in the name of social engineering, opps regeneration, does not mean that if you 'pack 'em all' into the East Dulwich Estate, where they can be neither seen or heard, the problem dissappears. I truly believe the police and their policies are not the cause but perpetuate the problem. Bak in the day they would have acted now, unless someone gets murdered or severely injured, they have no interest. I am the black mother of a mixed raced child who has been robbed, numerous times, by knifepoint, had his nose broken by a club bouncer and been robbed and beaten with a hammer by a gang of youths and to date, NOT ONE positive police response. In the latter case, they attended the scene, took my child in an ambulance and left, without so much as filing a report. You can complain but unless you have the time to manuourve the complexities of the IPCC - there is little point. Faced with this and constantly being stopped in your car by the same people who apparently lack resources to deal with the crimes perpertrated against you - how would you feel? A little bit frustrated perhaps, can't beat them join 'em!? In my view, until the police start dealing with what they consider as petty crimes more effectively, situations will escalate. To this end, I'd be very surprised if any of the perpetrator of this, or any other shooting or stabbing victim, are unknown to the police. God rest Daniel in peace and peace to his parents, as quite frankly, they could be any of us. I fear, however, that the Coalition government's cuts to policing, which incidentally has seen an 8% increase in this type of incident in the past year, is not the way forward. As for, 'let's reduce the number of prison spaces'! Perhaps this is another social engineering project that we will all feel the impact of in a few years time - no education or job prospects, no crime detterent - ummm - I wonder what will happen.