BLINDERS TO BLAME FOR GANG VIOLENCE CHRIS IS STILL SO UPTOWN
Peaky & Netflix hit Narcos ‘fuel crime’
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PEAKY Blinders is helping fuel Britain’s crime epidemic, says a top police chief.
The hit show and other Netflix dramas like Narcos “glamorise” violence and organised crime, claims Merseyside assistant chief constable Ian Critchley.
He believes they are luring youngsters into criminal gangs and fuelling the problems on our streets.
ACS Critchley said: “You only need to go on to Netflix and others and watch the TV programmes and films in there that can glamorise serious organised crime.
“There is no glamour about it at all.
“You have a load of cowards and bullies that sit there taking money that ultimately comes from the streets, that mean people overdose, that mean young people can get stabbed and shot.”
Jayne Lloyd, the National Crime Agency’s head of investigations for the north, said more “could be done about what we see on television, around the harm it causes”.
It comes after singer Duffy slammed streaming service Netflix for broadcasting film 365 Days.
The 36-year-old claimed the movie “glamorised the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape”.
More than 70,000 people signed a petition to remove the Polish film, which follows a woman who is kidnapped and held captive for a year by a mafia boss.
Duffy, who suffered a similar ordeal, said: “This should not be anyone’s idea of entertainment, nor should it be described as such, or be commercialised in this manner.”
Earlier this year Max Hill QC, the country’s top prosecutor, said social media was fuelling gang violence as threats and pictures of knives spark revenge attacks.