the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, says the clips that feature so—called "drill" musictacks. youtube says it is working with authorities to take action on content related to knife crime. chi chi izundu reports. this is the type of music that the head of the metropolitan police says is glamorising violent crime on london's streets. uk drill music — it's described as fast, dark and often violent. put simply, it's a sub genre of rap and british hip—hop. yassin works with former gang members. i personally don't think drill music is responsible for the knife crime that is going on. cressida dick, the met commissioner, says her officers have built up a database of more than 11100 videos to use as an intelligence tool to help tackle knife and gun crime. detectives say some of the lyrics, the gestures and the hand signals are used to taunt rival gangs, which is why they've asked youtube over the last two years, to take those videos down. this criminologist says artists are trading on the imagery in the videos. people, for some reason, like to tap into that. they tap into the im

the met police commissioner cressida dick said the videos were used by real gangs to taunt each otherck. she called on internet companies to show social responsibility. scotland yard has asked youtube to take down between 50 and 60 videos it believes raised the risk of violence. the company said it had removed more than 30 clips which were found to be in violation of its policies or broke the law. youtube, which is owned by google, said it shared the deep concern many felt about this issue and was continuing to work constructively with experts. one of north korea's most senior officials is reported to be on his way to the united states as both countries finalise plans for a possible meeting between president trump and the north's leader kim jong—un. the chances of a summit on i2thjune were thought to be over last week after the us president called off the meeting, citing the north's hostility. both sides have since been working to get the planned meeting in singapore back on track. coffee chain starbucks is closing all 8,000 of its shops in the united states today to teach staff how t

it comes after the metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick outlined so—called drill music as ather on social media. youtube said it was working with authorities to take action on gang—related content. drill music like this is accused not only of glamorising violence but of contributing to real crime. this video was used in evidence in a recent murder trial. hundreds of tracks are available on social media. some have been viewed over a million times. they often feature put and masked gangs making violent hand gestures. the met police commissioner, cressida dick, said the videos were used by real gangs to taunt each other and have been linked to at least one attack. she called on internet companies to show social responsibility. scotland yard has asked youtube to take down between 50—60 videos it believes raise the risk of violence. the company said it had removed more than 30 clips which were found to be in violation of its policies or broke the law. youtube, which is owned by google, said it shared their deep concern many felt by this issue and was continuing to work constructi

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cressida dick you is that this person who has to be on—site in grenfell tower and the terror incidentperson. it is only front of out first person. it is only front of our national media. i think it is the first stage. we have yet to see the first stage. we have yet to see the baby on the beach scenario. we haven't seen that shift. we saw that with the horrendous shootings in schools in america. we saw the thai turn with the most recent one when the school students themselves came out to speak —— tide turned. we saw a mother speaking about the effect of herfamily a mother speaking about the effect of her family life of this. it may ta ke of her family life of this. it may take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so many take one incident to symbolise, as we have seen so many horrendous, chronic conditions in this country, we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentions. we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentionsm we may need one horrendous story to focus everyone's attentions. it has been on

it comes after the metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick outlined so—called drill music as aas working with authorities to take action on gang—related content. andy moore reports. music like this is accused of not only glamorising violence but of contributing to real crime. this video was used in evidence in a recent murder trial. hundreds of tracks are available on social media, some have been viewed over a million times. they often feature hooded and masked gangs making violent hand gestures. the met police commissioner cressida dick said the videos were used by real gangs to taunt each other and have been linked to at least one attack. she called on internet companies to show social responsibility. scotland yard has asked youtube to take down between 50 and 60 it believes raised the risk of violence. the company said it had removed more than 30 clips which were found to be in violation of its policies and broke the law. youtube, which is owned by google, said it shared the deep concern many felt about this issue and was continuing to work constructively with experts. a sen

the metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick says the clips that features so—called ‘drill‘ musicntent related to knife crime. 0ur correspondent chi chi izundu reports. this is the type of music that the head of the metropolitan police says is glamorising violent crime on london's streets. uk drill music — it's described as fast, dark and often violent. put simply, it's a sub genre of rap and british hip—hop. yassin works with former gang members. i personally don't think drill music is responsible for the knife crime that is going on. cressida dick, the met commissioner, says her officers have built up a database of more than 11100 videos to use as an intelligence tool to help tackle knife and gun crime. detectives say some of the lyrics, the gestures and the hand signals are used to taunt rival gangs, which is why they've asked youtube over the last two years to take those videos down. this criminologist says artists are trading on the imagery in the videos. people, for some reason, like to tap into that. they tap into the imagery of the violent, young, black felon, drug dealer,

the metropolitan police commissioner, cressida dick, says the clips that feature so—called "drill" musicrking with authorities to take action on content related to knife crime. leila nathoo reports. it is this strand of rap music known as braille that has emerged in the uk in the last few years that has been blamed for fuelling violent crime. —— known as drill. the group ‘s nikki kidd video store about weapons and inside rival gangs. police say some are so inflammatory, they should not be aligned. this young rapper, known as d1, had one of his videos taken off the site.|j was very angry that they took it down on what is the point of taking it down? this is not enough. i don't understand this. but is music like this just artistic expression, a reflection of lives or is it shaping what is happening to? last summer, 15—year—old jermaine was stabbed to death in south london. this video was one of many used as evidence at the trial of those eventually convicted of his killing. if there wasn't that video or those videos posted on youtube or snapchat videos going around, i highly doubt that jer

cressida dick said last year that young black men and boys were statistically more likely to be the victimsnife crime, making up 21 of 24 teenagers murdered so far that year. so, that's the background. they are the facts, though i'm not sure anybody disputes, because they are the official facts, and i was told that the following were the percentage of searches that resulted in an arrest. for white people who were stopped and searched, 13% of those were arrested as a result of that stop and search. 20% of black people, 14% of asian people and 17% of mixed race people. so, in actual fact, mr owen, the evidence shows that the community that are much more likely to be stopped and searched and yet found to have had done nothing wrong are white people. for the avoidance of doubt, are you saying that the disproportionate levels of stop and search exercised on black people, muslim people, people from south asia, is because we are more criminal? well, i'm giving the facts out. and the facts of the matter are, as ijust went into earlier, i'm sure the right honourable ladies was listening, is that for