Something about this post makes me feel uncomfortable.
Certainly, you want to distract from calling knife-crime a "black problem", but I think you are reacting to your own discomforts about pointing to a specific racial group - calling colour "irrelevant" in this case while we are discussing the whole issue, reads your own disquiet before taking a really serious issue by the real scruff of its' real neck.
Basic sociology says why most perps are black? Does that excuse the problem?
A MINORITY is committing a MAJORITY of a certain crime, but there's a reason? There's an excuse - for something where there can be none. You can fill the jails with black teens who have 'a reason to be disgruntled', and still writhe from taking the issue ON!?
Now come on - let's just get to the crux of the matter, call it what the social indications point to;- a race crime, a wrong crime, and one to make a race ashamed for so that they take it on board where it matters - parental level/local leaders/and the perpetrators themselves. Make them know it's totally wrong in all circumstances to be carrying a weapon in Breat Britain.
"Yes, you blacks - pull yourselves together ffs and get with the program in British society. Knives are for cowards and losers".
Personally, I see nothing wrong with broadcasting that message.
I'm beginning to see why you chose that avatar.
The amount of rascists here shocks me