Dispatches - The Truth About Street Weapons (30 June 2008) [PDTV (xvid)]

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Dispatches: The Truth About Street Weapons



Monday 30 June

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Channel 4



In The Truth about Street Weapons (8pm), part of Channel 4's Disarming Britain season focusing on gun and knife crime, Dispatches follows Dr Tunji Lasoye, head of A&E at King's College Hospital in London, as he picks up the pieces of Britain's knife and gun culture. He's increasingly frustrated at the steady rise in the number of young victims of knife and gun crime he sees in the course of his job. "We cannot be a society that lives in fear any more - we shouldn't allow that to happen," he says. As a means of trying to alert future generations to the dangers of gangs, weapons and violence, he talks to children and shows them graphic images of the results of deadly assaults. Preview DVDs were unavailable. Though Bafta-winning director Jezza Neumann and producer Brian Woods's film Kids, Knives and Broken Lives (9pm) was still being completed as RT went to press, the few minutes we were able to see provided more than enough often unpalatable food for thought. The pair spoke to the type of young men you'll see swaggering around just about any British inner city - feckless, mouthy, baggy-trousered and probably armed. What emerges is a rundown of easily available armoury: "You can buy a long, shiny f*****g sword as sharp as anything you'd find in a butcher's shop . . . for £10 you can get yourself a machete . . . two grenades for £150 . . ." One youth debates the relative merits of shooting and stabbing: shooting is easy, stabbing is more "personal". Through the course of the film, Neumann and Woods explore why youths who are little more than children would choose to arm themselves against other children. Fear and "defending territory" are prime motivations. Life, it seems, is cheap.







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