Intensification Month: Tackling Serious Youth Violence in Leeds
9 April 2024
With a significant proportion of serious incidents of violence involving young people, a large focal point for the month has been around educating and intervening with young people, schools and parents.
This initiative was spearheaded by the arrival of The Knife Angel (also known as the National Monument Against Violence & Aggression) which was located at the Royal Armouries in Leeds for the entire month of February.
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The Knife Angel, completed in 2018 by artist Alfie Bradley and the British Ironworks Centre, is a 27 ft tall sculpture formed of over 100,000 knives that were anonymously surrendered by the public or had been seized by police.
