This is self inflicted. In the 70's we didn't play football on Sunday's, Shops didn't open. Not that we all went to Church but atleast we stayed in as a family for the proverbial English sunday lunch. We talked as a family and Knew what our kids were up to and met their friends.

chimoco, london, UK

Of course it happened before immigration. You think England was some kind of peaceful paradise before the 1950s? Have you never read a single history book in your entire narrow-minded life? Do you have any idea of previous crime levels? The ignorance of some readers is truly staggering.

Guy C, Lancaster, Lancs

by coincidence all these teenage stabbings are happening among a community whose origins lie in countries with a violent culture. Coincidence ? surely not

frank, swindon, uk

Immigration has had free-reign since TB forced it upon us without even consulting us. A murderer was given 5 years for plunging a 8cm knife into an 18 year old's heart. We expect this to happen in violent Africa.By allowing ghettos of Immigrants to populate parts of London, this is the result.

Julian Hutchings, Bath, UK

very sad...... but whats in a name eh !!! ???

Andy cooper, Oxford,

What do the ruling classes care? In the public sector as long as they receive more taxes to waste. In the private, more mugs to rip off with extortionate utility bills etc etc. And these immigrants are a godsent to the PC brigade pack of hyenas.

Money is the root of all evil isn't it Mr Brown?

Rick Chester, Oslo, Norway

Catherine R in Cairns: I think if you were to visit the 'crime hotspots' in London (I myself live in Peckham), I think you'd find that religion is VERY prevalent. In my experience, the west African immigrants who live in my neighbourhood are far more religious than the white inhabitants.

L Porter, Peckham, London,

Don't always scold China for their human rights situation. I think yours is much worse than that in China. How can you find a city that more than 20 teenager murders take place a year in China? You can't ! We really fell safe living in China. Can you guarantee the safety in 2012 Olympics?

Jerry, Xi'an, China

There is only one deterrent that will work and that is Capital Punishment.
Make people aware of the fact that if they kill another human being no if's no but's they will be Hanged.

Dave, London, UK

Once again, I feel the need to point out, in amongst the 'blame Labour / Moral Decay' crowd, that crime is significantly down from it's peak in the mid-80s, when 3 million people were unemployed.

There is a problem here, but keep it in perspective people.

Owen, London, UK

To those who say this is third world crime should look at the white children with hoods who are running amok through our streets. Many of the deaths caused by feral children kicking innocents to death on our streets are by the white undrclass.

jack, london, uk

I have just read in the Camden New Journal newspaper of the town hall's defeat in its war with drug dealers. I fear the same fate awaits the government in its measures to combat the growing menace of youth gang culture.

amar, London, UK

"Equals 2007 record", it's not an olympic event. Mind you what will the figures be in 2012.

Richard, Ivybridge, UK

Maybe it's a "culture" thing! It didn't happen in Britain before immigration from the West Indies and the paralysis this has caused because we can't treat the children and grandchildren of the "Windrush" immigrants normally as they're always seen as 'victims'.

Judith C, London, London

Well, well, well, New Labour.

The chickens have come home to roost and we don't really like their smell, now do we?

I hope you're happy.

John F, London,

When will someone listen? BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. If the youth of today are in regression then we must step back a little too, to sweep them up and bring them forwards.

Steve Webster, London,

Thing is, murder rates have been going down slowly over the past few years. It's just the demographic that's changed - hardly surprising in a society that tries to 'protect' younger people more and more by taking away things to do.

The widening rich/poor gap is a contributory factor as well.

KataPhusin, London,

It’s amazing how the government insist in find “reasons” for this problem and yet ignoring the reality. When you bring third world people to live here you also bring third world problems. As long as PC is in place many problems Britain is facing will not be solved. But probably I’m a “racist”.

Antonio Garcia, Dublin, Ireland

This is the result of unrestricted immigration, but we are not allowed to speak the truth

H Horse, jersey, uk

This is a sympton of society under severe stress brought about by too much immigration, too quickly, with insufficient resources to deal with the consequential strain on public services. An underclass has been imported & allowed to grow in the existing population by welfare/rights/no responsibility.

Donna Walker, Effingham, England

Curfew any area where knives have been found ,and if there is a stabbing make it longer No one under 21 to be out after 8. Lock it down. It would make carrying a knife something there is peer pressure to avoid doing rather than the opposite. Close the clubs to under 21s after a stabbing .

Dan, Stockwell, UK

Had a single policeman been walking the beat I doubt that ANY of these murders would have taken place.
NOT rocket science really.

Ken Wyatt, Todmorden, UK

Charles Murray outlined the consequences of rewarding single parenthood and penalising marriage, in the Sunday Times, 1994: "Britain's Growing Underclass: The Rise of the New Rabble". Now it's happened; murders are one symptom.

Mike Evans, Midsomer Norton, UK

MeaningFULness vs meaningLESSness. 2008 Britain prides itself on being a militantly secular society. Religion has been dumped, and so it is secular society that struggles to tell these young people, how & WHY to live. The 'religion' of secularism, just can't come up with the answers, can it?!

Catherine R, Cairns, Australia

We have ourselves to blame for importing all this third world crime in the first place then been too scared to deal with it due to the PC brigade.

Steve, Goole,

Just a thought, instead of wasting money employing CSO's instead of real police officers. Why not employ real officers, and flooding the streets with them. It worked in New York.

martin, Reading, Berkshire

35,000 people searched, 1,900 knives seized, that's a good percentage, however how many of those knife carriers get jailed? Taking away a knife for a few hours is all that happens with this soft on crime government. Tough sentences discourage crime, that's some radical thinking

Tony, London,

One cannot imagine the final death count in 3 months time. If knife crime is such a problem now, then isn't it inevitable that there will be subsequent increase in youth gun crime?Can the measures in place reduce the problem substantially in a finite period of time?I hope they can for all our sake..

John Vardakis, London, UK