'There's something about knife crime that once it starts, it's an incredibly difficult pattern to break': What's behind the recent spate of stabbings?

The article discusses the alarming increase in knife crime and its life-changing consequences. Chris Luke, a retired doctor, shares insights from his experience treating knife attack victims, emphasizing the severity of injuries typically sustained. The report also explores the societal implications of rising knife attacks and examines existing efforts to combat this dangerous trend to prevent an escalation into an arms race within communities. Addressing the root causes and implementing preventive strategies is crucial to curbing this rise.

The life-threatening injuries tend to be to the torso, wounds through the rib cage, through the lungs, the heart, the liver, the spleen or the kidney. Those fixed organs are very, very vulnerable.

More people than ever carry knives, leading to a wave of fatal and life-threatening attacks, highlighting an urgent need for effective measures to combat knife crime.

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