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Ray Lewis: 'The questions parents must answer'
13.05.08
Boris Johnson's new youth crime supremo Ray Lewis described the latest spate of knife attacks and murders in the capital as a "rising onslaught".
The Deputy Mayor for Young People, speaking on BBC's Newsnight, said: "We need to ask ourselves why we are where we are in the first place. Because this isn't a blow-out, this is a slow leak."
The 45-year-old former prison governor, pictured, said: "This has been an increasing and steadily rising onslaught of lawlessness and abandoned behaviour for a number of years.
"It's about us," he continued. "What is my son doing on the street late at night on the streets, as far as perpetrators are concerned. Where are our children?
"There are some important questions parents need to ask and answer, but also we as adults and people in leadership positions."
Reader views (2)
If anyone knows and understands what needs to be done on this issue it's Ray Lewis.A very astute and knowledgeable man whom I consider an asset to the new mayor of London..Well done Ray and keep up the good work..If you need any help you only have to get in touch.
- Gary Grange, England
A 21% reduction in stay at home parents, new laws diminishing the role of men in the upbringing of children. The social engineering pursued by the current government aimed at forcing women into the workplace.
The result has been a generation of feral kids who are today's feral parents. The UK is in a vicious circle precipitated by government intervention in family life.
- Edward Wilson, Geneva Switzerland
