Claudia Webbe

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Claudia Webbe is Vice Chair to the Operation Trident Independent Advisory  Group, tackling gun crime across London. She was the former Director of Westminster Race Equality Council and the  former Director of Bath and North East Somerset Race Equality Council and an  Advisor to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Claudia is an Executive Member of the National Assembly against Racism and an  Advisor to the ''Kick Racism out of Football'' campaign chaired by Lord Herman  Ouseley and she is a board member of London Crimestoppers.

Neglecting our Young People: the scourge of gun, knife and violent crime

The ruthless vicious murder of our children and young people as signified by the recent murders of Steven Bigby and 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen, can never simply be defined as two polarised opposites, there are processes in between, where the needs of children and young people have been neglected and thus society needs to take responsibility […]

May 14th, 2008 by Claudia Webbe

Lewis Hamilton does not deserve such racist abuse

Despite my many years of anti-racist activism and campaigning, I am deeply shocked, horrified and alarmed at the brutal racist treatment of Lewis Hamilton and his family at the hands of so called Formula One supporters. Surely, there can be no place in modern civil society for such barbaric inhumane behaviour as that on public […]

February 5th, 2008 by Claudia Webbe

Cameron is wrong over ’stop and search’ claims

In an interview in today’s Sun newspaper, the Conservative leader, David Cameron would have us believe that an increase in the police use of stop and search would help to solve gun, knife and violent crime. His claims come despite the clear evidence that black communities are already up to six times more likely than […]

January 30th, 2008 by Claudia Webbe

Policing by Consent

Last month in a hard hitting campaign, Operation Trident, the London based community led policing initiative that tackles the disproportionate affect of gun crime on the Black community launched a new crusade targeted at 13 to 19 year olds.
Waking up to the reality that victims and perpetrators of knife and gun violence are getting younger […]

November 2nd, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

The Courage of Jessie James - Making it safe to talk

The courts in Manchester at the coroner’s inquest into the death of young courageous Jessie James have taken the brave and radical move to provide anonymity to vulnerable witnesses. For the first time, since his brutal gangland murder, the police now have usable witness statements.
Building trust and confidence and encouraging witnesses and members of […]

August 9th, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

Disarming our young “Urban Soldiers”.

Schools are only just out and already we have a another youth murder on our hands, sadly there will be more senseless killings of young people on our streets this summer and not even the bad weather will deter this reality.
Across London there are proposed targeted responses to the inevitable summer boredom of some […]

July 26th, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

Violent crime - protecting children from abuse

Today the Guardian newspaper reveals that Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is calling for a child protection approach to address the growth of violent gun and knife crime amongst the young, this has long been the requirement of child care legislation.
In extreme cases, children who are at risk of being involved in violent criminal […]

May 3rd, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

Tony Blair’s comments are a kick in the teeth for Black communities

Prime Minister, Tony Blair's comments that the Black community "…need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang culture that is killing innocent young Black kids…" is a kick in the teeth to five generations of the UK's Black community and the countless foremothers and forefathers who fought for our freedom.
In the absence of statutory […]

April 13th, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

Sadly, more young people will die from this culture of violence

The implementation this year of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, which gives amongst other things powers to teachers to search pupils for weapons, will be of little comfort to the parents of 15-year-old Adam Regis and 16-year-old Kodjo Yenga who were recently stabbed to death in public.
Some of our young people located at […]

March 19th, 2007 by Claudia Webbe

Gun Crime - There are no quick fixes

The Prime Minister's wide ranging summit and North-West UK tour will have highlighted that there are no quick fixes to the growing problem of gun crime.
Most of the gunmen including those growing minority under the age of 19 are totally callous, valuing lives cheaply, including their own. The older notorious gangland mafias on our […]

February 23rd, 2007 by Claudia Webbe