Do you think Sheffield has a knife crime problem?
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00:00Do you think Sheffield has a knife problem?
00:02Yes, I do. I think.
00:04We hear about it more and more.
00:06We hear about kids that are younger and younger
00:08carrying knives.
00:10I think one of the things that worries me
00:12is that they're doing it to protect themselves,
00:14not necessarily to hurt somebody else, but they're doing it because
00:16they feel they need to protect themselves.
00:18That, to me, shows that there is a problem.
00:20Do you think Sheffield
00:22has a knife problem?
00:24Not as far as I'm aware.
00:26I don't hear a lot of stabbings at Sheffield.
00:28I think Sheffield is a relatively safe city.
00:30I've lived in this area all my life
00:32and I wouldn't know
00:34the number of stabbings that happened last year
00:36but I do think
00:38it's relatively safe, Sheffield,
00:40as opposed to similar cities the same size.
00:44Do you think Sheffield's got a problem with knives?
00:46At the moment, they have, yes.
00:48Why do you say that?
00:50Because it's just anybody
00:52can be perfectly innocent
00:54say something wrong to somebody
00:56but the producer knifed and stabbed me.
00:58It's awful.
01:00I feel really sorry for the youngsters now,
01:02growing up.
01:04Do you think Sheffield has a knife problem?
01:06Yeah, I do.
01:08The thing is, you don't know who's carrying them.
01:10That's the thing.
01:12Somebody could
01:14knock your walk past you and you might say
01:16you don't retaliate
01:18in any way or form
01:20because you could think you're dead.
01:22Yeah.
01:24Saying that,
01:26it's not only every day
01:28there's a stabbing somewhere or other
01:30whether it be Sheffield or where.
01:32They've got to do something about it.
01:36It's like an epidemic now
01:38with knife crime.
01:42Do you think Sheffield has a knife problem?
01:44Yes.
01:46Are you worried about it?
01:48Yes.
01:50They said I'm having two boys
01:52and I'm really worried.
01:54When I heard what happened yesterday
01:56I said, oh my God, what will happen to my kids
01:58when they go to high school?