More young people, including children aged 10, are viewing a “pick and mix of horror” on the web that pushes them towards violence, a UK counter-terrorism leader has said.
Deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans of the Metropolitan police, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the nature of radicalisation had changed and warned of a “rapidly increasing fascination with extreme content that we’re seeing throughout our casework”. Evans said suspects increasingly had no ideology or would scour the internet for material justifying or depicting violence from different sources.
Yes, let's not look at what in their home lives or origin culture might be making them susceptible, let's just blame the electronic Satan corrupting otherwise normal youth.
Detectives in the counter-terrorism policing network were expending huge amounts of time and resources on digital forensics, uncovering young people seeking extreme material, which was “hugely worrying”, she said. “We most definitely need to think differently about how we stop that conveyor belt of young people who are seeing and being exposed to this type of material, and unfortunately, sometimes then going on to commit horrific acts,” she said.
Well, perhaps a start would be to stop the absurd soft justice that treats them as children and seeks to to accept every bullshit excuse going to ensure the punishment does not fit the crime?
The government is also reviewing the thresholds for entry to Prevent, which currently requires there to be a clear terrorist ideology. Increasingly people referred to Prevent have an alarming interest in violence with no obvious ideological driver.
If you can't find one, maybe you just aren't looking hard enough?
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Pretty sure half the games we used to play when I was a lad, with cap guns etc., would get us referred to Prevent these days. Maybe the coppers just need to calm down and remember boys will be boys.
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