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The murder of young people in Edmonton made headlines again, but there is nothing new. Concerted action is needed to make a difference

Bantin

Danny, 20, was killed by a 16 year old, opposite the police station in Edmonton, north London. It was six years ago. After the first discussions on the knife crime following the streets were quiet Bantin death, but the media. While violence remains a reality for those of us who live there, the problems of Edmonton slipped off the radar. That was until 2009 when the New Year's Day Bolomba Henry, 17, was killed near Edmonton Green station.

few weeks Boduka "Louis" Mudianga, 18, was stabbed in the heart. Less than a month later, Ofiyke "Iyke" Nmezu, 16, was walled up in a fight and he died of a fractured skull. Iyke was not the last person to be killed or seriously injured in Edmonton this year, and asked why "suddenly" had a problem with violence in the suburban town of Enfield. It was as if people had forgotten what happened four years ago, and all non-fatal cases of serious violence among young people that the area had witnessed.

While these losses left many people in mourning, I thought that the authorities are starting to get serious youth violence, I live and to allocate resources to prevent, respond and react. However, fast forward 2011 and I wake up to the same owners. Over the last six months and three local residents, James Leroy, 14, Negus McClean, 15, and more recently, Steven Grisales, 21, were stabbed to death. Edmonton is back in the headlines for the murder of a time.

Every time someone dies in which I live, I feel emotions. Panic when I hear the news and frantically call my mother to verify that all my brothers are taken into account, the relief that the three of them are safe, the guilt I feel relieved, pain when I realize that this is someone I knew, fatigue, even when I did not know them personally, not worry when I put the flowers and see the children do the same thing, thinking that will help them adapt to loss, resolution loss that is the way things are, have been, and remains, unless addressed in the root.

I love my neighborhood and my family and friends who live here. My link to where I live, however, does not make me blind to their problems. If she went to school on buses that were brought by groups seeking to attack opponents, or be sued in cases of crimes of racial hatred, my brothers and I have sailed many forms of violence.

working in the field of youth violence for many years, rarely hear mentioned in the nationals in Edmonton or regional meetings. That form a small part of a leaf, in general, middle-class city is seen as less problematic than neighbors or neighborhoods south of Haringey London Southwark or Lambeth.

left research and action, of Edmonton was used to being ignored unless several murders in a short time to renew a passing interest. However, when the stories that move in and there is a new title, we still live here, leaving flowers and going to bed to ensure that our phone is not muted in the case of Emergency overnight

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