0:00:02 > 0:00:07This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:07 > 0:00:12This programme contains some strong language
0:00:15 > 0:00:17I'm David Gillanders.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20I'm a documentary photographer and film-maker.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Over a decade ago, prompted by my own experiences, I began a
0:00:26 > 0:00:30photographic project documenting the violence in my hometown of Glasgow.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Back then, the press referred to Glasgow
0:00:58 > 0:01:00as THE murder capital of Europe.
0:01:00 > 0:01:05And a 2005 United Nations report named Scotland the most
0:01:05 > 0:01:07violent country in the developed world.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18The photographic project took me seven years to finish.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22I used it as an educational tool through youth groups and in schools
0:01:22 > 0:01:25and, as a result, met a small army of people working to change
0:01:25 > 0:01:28the culture of violence I had encountered.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Ten years on, what I want to know is -
0:01:36 > 0:01:39has anything fundamentally changed for Glasgow and for Scotland?
0:01:45 > 0:01:47SIREN WAILS
0:01:47 > 0:01:50At the moment, the only information we've got is that we're
0:01:50 > 0:01:52going for a 25-year-old female.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56It's coming down as a dangerous haemorrhage.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58However, on the phone the controllers
0:01:58 > 0:02:00have stated that maybe she's been slashed.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04So, we're basically going to just need to wait
0:02:04 > 0:02:07and see when we get there as to what we've got.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10What time is it?
0:02:10 > 0:02:12It is currently 0805.
0:02:12 > 0:02:13Breakfast time!
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Before some of us have had breakfast!
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Someone's been slashed.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25You're OK my side. SIREN WAILS
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Still OK.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I'm halfway through six months of filming with
0:02:33 > 0:02:36the paramedics of Glasgow East Ambulance Station.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39I photographed much of the original project with these crews
0:02:39 > 0:02:43and here, at the front line, is where I hope to find out
0:02:43 > 0:02:46if anything has changed in the past ten years.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00So, can you remember everything that happened?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02Aye...
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- OK. So you weren't knocked out or anything like that?- No.- OK.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Is my face that bad?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10OK. Don't worry, the police are out there.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12They'll deal with whoever it is out there.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Don't you worry about that, OK?
0:03:13 > 0:03:15We'll get you sorted first, all right?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17And then we'll get you out to the ambulance
0:03:17 > 0:03:20and get a proper look at you, OK?
0:03:20 > 0:03:23She's obviously going to need to go and get this stitched,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27so we'll take her out and get a proper look at her, get it
0:03:27 > 0:03:29cleaned up out there and we'll leave you to it.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32You put your hand up to stop this, I take it?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34Aye, nae bother.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Get my fags out the cupboard. - Get your fags out the cupboard?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40We'll leave that just now, OK, and we'll get you sorted.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42All right, pal?
0:03:42 > 0:03:45Come on, we'll get you outside and get you seen to.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47There you go, pal. All the way round here.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49OK.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52I've no' got anything, Crawford. Oh, you've got... Sorry.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Am I gonnae be scarred for life?
0:03:54 > 0:03:57The plastic surgeons are great up there, OK?
0:03:57 > 0:04:01What we're going to do is... Let me see this for a wee second.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02Just take your time. SHE GROANS
0:04:02 > 0:04:05No, no, no. Keep your finger there.
0:04:05 > 0:04:07Was it big glasses of vodka?
0:04:07 > 0:04:09No, it was the small ones.
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Just small ones.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13It's only been small glasses of vodka.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15I'm going to just give you a wee clean up a bit, OK.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17I'm going to clean your hands, OK, pal?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25SHE MOANS
0:04:25 > 0:04:26Let me have a look.
0:04:31 > 0:04:32Right, pal.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Put your hand over for me, pal.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Watch the dried blood.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40You going to sleep on me?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Who done your eyelashes?
0:04:42 > 0:04:45- Eh...- You?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46You're no very good at it, are you?
0:04:46 > 0:04:48INDISTINCT
0:04:48 > 0:04:49All right, no bother.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54So where were you last night?
0:04:54 > 0:04:56In my house.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58I hope to fuck they get him.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- I'm sure they will. - I'm sure they will.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04I take it you know who done it?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Aye.- Did you tell the police that? - Uh-huh.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09- Well, they'll get him then. - They won't, but.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Erm, I've got an ASBO out, it's just...
0:05:13 > 0:05:16- You've got an ASBO?- I have.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- You been a naughty lassie? - Mm.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Joe, are you OK?
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Right, that's us going to head to the hospital, OK?
0:05:28 > 0:05:29How long you stayed up here?
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- Too long.- You born and bred here?
0:05:34 > 0:05:35Eh...
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- Eh?- I stayed in Stirling for two and half years.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- Stirling?- Aye.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46How was that?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- In the jail. - Oh, in the jail?!
0:05:49 > 0:05:51You cannae exactly say you stayed in Stirling for a wee two
0:05:51 > 0:05:53and a half years and you were in the hoose!
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Naw, but I've been good noo.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56You keep that there.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Two and a half years in the jail?
0:06:00 > 0:06:02INDISTINCT No bother.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04We'll get that sorted.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Aye.- How did you find that?
0:06:06 > 0:06:07Erm...
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Very, erm...
0:06:11 > 0:06:12Very therapeutic.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Therapeutic?
0:06:14 > 0:06:17I've never heard of the jail being described as therapeutic
0:06:17 > 0:06:18in my life before.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26I'm just going to pop a wee dressing on this to stop it bleeding away, OK?
0:06:26 > 0:06:28There you go.
0:06:29 > 0:06:30Is that why you've...?
0:06:30 > 0:06:32Well, when did you get out the jail?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Eight year ago.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36And you've got an ASBO again?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- I'm freezing. Can I get my jacket? - Right.
0:06:46 > 0:06:47Right.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51We'll get it sorted. I'm going to give you a blanket.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53We need to get you on here first.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56- Just turn yourself round, have a wee seat in there.- You look much better.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- There you go.- Come on. Watch out.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Put your bum straight on, there you go.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- We'll get you covered up, OK, pal? - I'm freezing.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10Here. Just take that. All right, guys?
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Thank you.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14- There we go.- Try and look a bit sick, right?
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Girls do get attacked unfortunately.
0:07:31 > 0:07:37In the main, statistically, it's young men who are victims of
0:07:37 > 0:07:40assaults, but, no, it can be anyone,
0:07:40 > 0:07:43any range of age - anything at all.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48It brings it home a wee bit more, she was only a young girl,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50and she's now marked for life.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57In three months of filming with the paramedics,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00this is the first truly violent incident I've attended.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05Ten years ago, incidents like this, and much worse,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09happened several times a week and sometimes, several times a day.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28CHATTER ON WARD
0:08:30 > 0:08:34'Unfortunately, Glasgow's always had a reputation for a culture
0:08:34 > 0:08:35'of violence,'
0:08:35 > 0:08:38and I think that here at The Royal Infirmary, we've probably
0:08:38 > 0:08:46seen more of it, due to the deprived areas that are within our catchment.
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Erm...
0:08:47 > 0:08:51When I first started as a consultant and as a senior registrar,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54I was on a one in three rota at the weekends,
0:08:54 > 0:08:56and I can honestly say that every weekend,
0:08:56 > 0:08:57I would be called in late at night
0:08:57 > 0:09:00because somebody had been stabbed through the chest
0:09:00 > 0:09:02and required to have their chest opened
0:09:02 > 0:09:04in the resuscitation room.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I remember, one night, coming in and the nurses telling me
0:09:07 > 0:09:10that resus was a bit busy with some stabbings, and I came in to find that
0:09:10 > 0:09:13the patient in the first cubicle was already undergoing
0:09:13 > 0:09:16a thoracotomy - having their chest opened -
0:09:16 > 0:09:19and the cardiothoracic team were in attendance.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23The patient in the next cubicle had a sword sticking out of his eye,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26and the patient in the third cubicle -
0:09:26 > 0:09:28all three were from separate incidents -
0:09:28 > 0:09:32had suffered a horrific number of machete
0:09:32 > 0:09:36wounds all over his body and unfortunately he died.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39In fact, all three of them died.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44I recall one where two brothers arrived
0:09:44 > 0:09:48simultaneously from the same gang fight.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Typically, they both had the injury which we very often see,
0:09:52 > 0:09:56which is a fairly small one to two centimetre length wound,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59usually on the left side of the chest,
0:09:59 > 0:10:04and they both had an identical wound in virtually identical places,
0:10:04 > 0:10:07on the left side of the chest.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11One of them had a collapsed lung, and the other one was dead.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14They were in separate rooms.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18I think the hardest bit was
0:10:18 > 0:10:22when the brother who was not dead was asking me how his brother was.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26And all I could really say was, "He's next door."
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Erm...
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Eventually, of course, you have to break it to them,
0:10:31 > 0:10:33but very difficult.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38It's always difficult when it's young people.
0:10:38 > 0:10:39Erm...
0:10:39 > 0:10:43One of the hardest bits of the job is telling any family member that
0:10:43 > 0:10:45an another family member has died.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49It's difficult enough telling a young person that a parent or
0:10:49 > 0:10:50a grandparent has died,
0:10:50 > 0:10:55but it's really difficult telling a parent that a child has died.
0:10:55 > 0:10:56Erm...
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Just have to do it.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12So much of the violence I saw ten years ago was a tragic
0:11:12 > 0:11:13waste of young life.
0:11:15 > 0:11:20In 2007, I photographed the location of one such incident.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I had just finished night shift, actually,
0:11:30 > 0:11:35I had just finished night shift at the Queen Mother's Hospital.
0:11:35 > 0:11:40My sister lives facing me, so she lives across the road.
0:11:40 > 0:11:45And she came running, about 20 past 12, I think,
0:11:45 > 0:11:48and shouted that James had been stabbed.
0:11:50 > 0:11:56So we drove, frantically, and got to the street that it was on and
0:11:56 > 0:12:00knew instinctively that that's where he was, because the crowd of people,
0:12:00 > 0:12:05and lots of screaming and James lying in the street,
0:12:05 > 0:12:08with somebody behind him holding a towel,
0:12:08 > 0:12:10and two police hovering over him.
0:12:11 > 0:12:17And, I think, screaming at them, "What's happened to him?"
0:12:17 > 0:12:20And at that point, somebody said that he'd been stabbed.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I didnae know where, didnae know how many times.
0:12:24 > 0:12:29And I think I automatically must have went into nurse mode and was just
0:12:29 > 0:12:35thinking, "Oh, my God, he's injured." I knew by his face - he was pale,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37and his eyes were rolling slightly.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40I couldn't find a pulse at first.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43I remember that, I remember feeling his neck and thinking,
0:12:43 > 0:12:46"He's got to have a pulse cos I can see his eyes."
0:12:46 > 0:12:50But I think it was just me, my adrenaline was too high
0:12:50 > 0:12:54and I definitely...
0:12:54 > 0:12:59I look back at that now and I think, "Where was my instincts as a mother?
0:13:01 > 0:13:05"Should I just have taken him in my arms and let him
0:13:05 > 0:13:07"know I was there as his mum?"
0:13:07 > 0:13:10And I never. I totally went into nurse mode and...
0:13:12 > 0:13:15If I could stabilise him in any way, or anything we could have done,
0:13:15 > 0:13:21so I know my brain switched to some automatic mode that somebody's
0:13:21 > 0:13:22injured and I need to help them.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Five times he stabbed him.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33He stabbed him in the clavicle, I think.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35I think a rib.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38And he stabbed him in the back,
0:13:38 > 0:13:41which went through his aorta, so he stabbed him in the big,
0:13:41 > 0:13:45major aortic artery of the heart.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48And that's why he bled and bled and that's what killed him,
0:13:48 > 0:13:50the last stabbing was the one that killed him.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53That's why he collapsed where he fell.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59And then fortunately someone came and got us, and took us to the Royal.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04I just had this belief that they'll save him,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08and things started to get better and he started to become more stable
0:14:08 > 0:14:11and they were moving him, and everybody left,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14and when everybody left, it's like a sigh of relief.
0:14:14 > 0:14:20"If all these important people don't need to be there, he's fine."
0:14:20 > 0:14:23And I remember the picture of a lone nurse over him,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27taking off the machines, as I left.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31And within seconds of leaving,
0:14:31 > 0:14:35she came and he had went into cardiac arrest
0:14:35 > 0:14:39and somebody's over him doing CPR,
0:14:39 > 0:14:43and other people start to come back again,
0:14:43 > 0:14:46and you still don't believe,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49and you're watching them, and...
0:14:50 > 0:14:53..the next minute, everybody stops,
0:14:53 > 0:14:55and his heart stops,
0:14:55 > 0:15:00his life stops and your life stops somewhere then as well.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04And he then becomes part of a crime scene,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07and you're thrown into something
0:15:07 > 0:15:12that is the most unimaginable process you'll ever experience.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13And...
0:15:14 > 0:15:18..they quite easily take off all the drips
0:15:18 > 0:15:20and take off all the machines
0:15:20 > 0:15:25and you're left with James, but it's no' James.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Nothing's ever the same again, I suppose.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35Part of your heart stops when his stops.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06The murder of Joyce's son James
0:16:06 > 0:16:09wasn't an uncommon event in the Glasgow of that time,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13and the level of serious violence I encountered only a decade ago
0:16:13 > 0:16:14was truly horrific.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18That violence is still out there,
0:16:18 > 0:16:21only now it seems it's happening much less frequently.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26SIREN WAILS
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Just before I finished filming with the Glasgow paramedics,
0:16:30 > 0:16:34we were called to a serious assault involving a bladed weapon.
0:16:34 > 0:16:36It was only the second incident of its type
0:16:36 > 0:16:39I had witnessed in six months.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42We're responding to...
0:16:42 > 0:16:45We're responding to a call just now
0:16:45 > 0:16:51where it's reported that two males have been stabbed at an address.
0:16:51 > 0:16:57It appears one of them may not still be alive at this point in time.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01All we're being told is that the place is covered in blood
0:17:01 > 0:17:05and someone is either unconscious or in cardiac arrest.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Right, onto the couch. Come on.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30- All right, I'm going.- Come on up. - Go and get a wee seat.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Come on, you're losing a lot of blood. Sit up on the couch, eh?
0:17:35 > 0:17:38We'd never harm each other in any way.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Right, so what happened tonight, then?
0:17:41 > 0:17:46His wife left him, eh... four months ago.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- What's happened to your hand?- I don't know. He attacked me with a knife.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54- He attacked you with a knife? Where is the knife?- I've no idea.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Do what the guy tells you!
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Do what the person tells you.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Do as the paramedics are telling you, they've got a job to do, right?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06There was a difference between you and your pal.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09I don't even know if I've got pressure on where it is, John.
0:18:09 > 0:18:10Where is it?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Is it his thumb? OK.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20I can't feel the thumb.
0:18:20 > 0:18:21I'm not surprised.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26It's a bit severed. You know?
0:18:26 > 0:18:28- You're joking.- We can see your bone.
0:18:28 > 0:18:30Oh, no.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- Up. Stand up.- What are you doing? - You need to stand up. OK?
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Everything is absolutely covered.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42MAN WHIMPERS
0:18:42 > 0:18:44You're gonnae be fine.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46HE TALKS, MUFFLED THROUGH OXYGEN MASK
0:18:46 > 0:18:49You're going to be fine, right?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52You've lost an awful lot of blood, pet.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55You're just going to feel a sharp scratch in the back of your hand.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58- Why did he do that?- I don't know.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00I need you to sit nice and still for me.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02- Nice and still.- OK.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Well done.
0:19:03 > 0:19:08- You've had an awful lot to drink tonight, eh?- Yeah.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11But I don't know what happened to him.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14He just turned psychotic.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19A lot of blood.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Do you see this wee chair here?
0:19:24 > 0:19:28That's what you're going to need to sit on, pal.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31You keep your arm up. Can you manage to stand?
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Watch. It's awful slippy, right?
0:19:34 > 0:19:36- One step forward.- Right.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43I know, these things happen when you're least expecting it.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58Hello, GRI. Just to advise you, we're bringing a stand-by in.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03It's a male in his 50s, knife wounds to his right hand.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07He's lost quite an extensive amount of blood on the scene.
0:20:07 > 0:20:10He is conscious but intoxicated,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12still bleeding at the moment.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13ETA, four minutes.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20RADIO CRACKLES
0:20:20 > 0:20:23He's GCS 15, saturating at 99,
0:20:23 > 0:20:27pulse of 88, blood pressure 106/91.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Roger.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Watch the swing.- Watch your toes.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Awful high up, so keep the seat...
0:20:38 > 0:20:41- You watch what you're doing. - On you go.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01You can have situations some nights in this job
0:21:01 > 0:21:08where four, five, six ambulances are all off-loading one after the other.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13And each person, each patient
0:21:13 > 0:21:18that's being brought into the casualty department,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20in some shape or form,
0:21:20 > 0:21:25has arrived there due to the amount of alcohol they've consumed.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29Either they've injured themselves
0:21:29 > 0:21:36or they've become unwell or they've been involved in a violent incident,
0:21:36 > 0:21:40they've got into a fight, but in some shape or form...
0:21:41 > 0:21:46..the root cause of it is the misuse of alcohol or the overuse of alcohol.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Can you bend the tip of it down?
0:21:57 > 0:21:59An awful lot of times...
0:22:01 > 0:22:06..what I find hardest to deal with is mindless violence,
0:22:06 > 0:22:09I tend to call it mindless violence,
0:22:09 > 0:22:14where there's just no motive, there's no reason for it,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17but for some reason,
0:22:17 > 0:22:23a violent incident has taken place, someone is seriously injured,
0:22:23 > 0:22:28someone's lost their life and just for no apparent reason.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Back when I started the original project,
0:22:34 > 0:22:38none of the violence I encountered seemed to make sense either.
0:22:41 > 0:22:46And for once, it seemed the press weren't sensationalising the situation.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48In fact, many incidents went unreported.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52But fast-forward ten years
0:22:52 > 0:22:55and I've only encountered two serious knife assaults
0:22:55 > 0:22:57in six months of filming.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01It seems to me that the city has had enough, and something is changing.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06I think as a city, we've moved on significantly.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12See, with Easterhouse, one of our local housing schemes,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15there used to be... well, there still is,
0:23:15 > 0:23:20but gangs and areas up there that were defined by gangs.
0:23:20 > 0:23:24And now, I mean, I was born and bred in Easterhouse,
0:23:24 > 0:23:29I lived my life there, and when I was growing up in the '70s and '80s,
0:23:29 > 0:23:32there was a lot of gang culture,
0:23:32 > 0:23:36but now you go up, you go back and you speak to some of these folk,
0:23:36 > 0:23:39or you go into one of the surgeries to speak
0:23:39 > 0:23:43and you mention the name of any gang, and it's frowned upon.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46It's like, "No, we don't talk about gangs here any more."
0:23:47 > 0:23:50I mean, you could name loads of different initiatives there
0:23:50 > 0:23:53that are all chipping away
0:23:53 > 0:23:56and collectively, they're making a big difference.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Since you were last in doing the photographic projects,
0:24:06 > 0:24:09violence has reduced.
0:24:09 > 0:24:14We've been counting it, and we are able to demonstrate
0:24:14 > 0:24:18an actual reduction in the number of violent attenders.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22I think the work of the Violence Reduction Unit has been key
0:24:22 > 0:24:27and I think information sharing we had been involved with earlier on
0:24:27 > 0:24:31allowed them to target specific areas where violence was occurring.
0:24:31 > 0:24:36Furthermore, I think the Medics Against Violence initiative
0:24:36 > 0:24:39where doctors have been going into schools
0:24:39 > 0:24:41and speaking to young schoolchildren
0:24:41 > 0:24:48and showing them the devastating effect on individuals and families
0:24:48 > 0:24:51of violent activities. Added to that, I think
0:24:51 > 0:24:54the courts are taking a much tougher line with knife carrying,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57and I can only assume that all these things combined
0:24:57 > 0:24:59and other community projects
0:24:59 > 0:25:03and the work of the youth groups working with young people
0:25:03 > 0:25:06has all combined to have a positive effect,
0:25:06 > 0:25:09and I can definitely say that we are seeing a difference.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Back when violence in Glasgow was at its worst,
0:25:16 > 0:25:19a body was set up to devise a strategy for murder reduction
0:25:19 > 0:25:23in the city, and it became known as the Violence Reduction Unit.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28The VRU has largely been responsible for a complete overhaul
0:25:28 > 0:25:31in the way violent crime is tackled in Glasgow today,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35and violence prevention has become its key objective.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38John Carnochan, a former murder detective,
0:25:38 > 0:25:40was involved in setting the unit up.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Criminal justice is the service of last resort.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47By the time it comes to policing and prisons, it's all over.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50I heard a great expression
0:25:50 > 0:25:52the other day when someone said,
0:25:52 > 0:25:55"Building more prisons to deal with violence
0:25:55 > 0:25:59"is like building more graveyards to deal with AIDS."
0:25:59 > 0:26:02It's absolutely stupid and it doesn't make sense.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Changing attitudes to violence amongst young people
0:26:06 > 0:26:09is at the heart of what the VRU is doing,
0:26:09 > 0:26:11and amongst many schemes started by the unit
0:26:11 > 0:26:16is the Community Initiative to Reduce Violence, or CIRV.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18CIRV was founded in 2008
0:26:18 > 0:26:23initially to target gang violence in the East End of Glasgow.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25We decided to speak to the gang members
0:26:25 > 0:26:26because we knew who they were.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29We decided to tell them to stop doing it because we'd had enough
0:26:29 > 0:26:32and they were having a bad effect on their committees,
0:26:32 > 0:26:35and we decided to offer them alternatives,
0:26:35 > 0:26:39and that was the simple message with CIRV.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Of course, the complication was,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44we had to get all the partners around the table to coordinate
0:26:44 > 0:26:49the services they delivered, and that was a challenge,
0:26:49 > 0:26:51but we managed it with most of the partners.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56And as a result, you know,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59gang fighting in the East End of Glasgow at the end of CIRV
0:26:59 > 0:27:03was evaluated by the University of St Andrews and Peter Donald's team.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06It was down 53%. 53%!
0:27:13 > 0:27:16The CIRV initiative wouldn't have been a success
0:27:16 > 0:27:18without the involvement of a host of organisations
0:27:18 > 0:27:22and individuals striving to change the culture of violence in Glasgow.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28Over the past ten years, I've had the privilege of working closely
0:27:28 > 0:27:30with a number of such groups across the city.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35The Argo Boxing Club is one such organisation,
0:27:35 > 0:27:39based in Drumchapel and run by Davey Savage and his team.
0:27:41 > 0:27:46Another is FARE - Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse.
0:27:47 > 0:27:51Founded 25 years ago, FARE was started by local people to provide
0:27:51 > 0:27:55social amenities in a neighbourhood that previously had none.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01In 2003, aided by a grant from Comic Relief,
0:28:01 > 0:28:04FARE took the unprecedented step of creating a position
0:28:04 > 0:28:08for someone to explicitly target the issue of gang violence.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10That someone was Jimmy Wilson.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15When the council built these houses in the '50s,
0:28:15 > 0:28:17they were fantastic houses,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20but there's more to building a community than just houses.
0:28:22 > 0:28:26About 80,000 people moved from the slums of Glasgow
0:28:26 > 0:28:29into Easterhouse with absolutely no amenities,
0:28:29 > 0:28:34nothing that could bring them together as a community.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37There was no youth clubs, there was no churches.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41The police station wasn't built until the '70s,
0:28:41 > 0:28:45the Shandwick Shopping Centre wasn't built until the '70s,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48there was no employment, people had nothing to do,
0:28:48 > 0:28:51youths had nothing to do,
0:28:51 > 0:28:57they would get bored and therefore territorial divides were raised.
0:28:57 > 0:29:01And the territorial divides have plagued not only Easterhouse
0:29:01 > 0:29:06but other areas of the West of Scotland and beyond for decades.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11It's the reason why FARE is here, because there was nothing to do
0:29:11 > 0:29:15and the local residents wanted something within their community,
0:29:15 > 0:29:19to have and hold, to be a community.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24However, by that time, the gangs were already here,
0:29:24 > 0:29:28and generation after generation got involved in the gangs
0:29:28 > 0:29:32and unfortunately, many, many, many young people lost their lives
0:29:32 > 0:29:35through knife crime and various other forms of violence.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39SEAGULLS CAW
0:29:49 > 0:29:53FARE engage with young people in a variety of different ways.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57In addition to school programmes, youth clubs and residentials,
0:29:57 > 0:30:00FARE also work closely with housing and police
0:30:00 > 0:30:03to target specific areas and groups of troubled youths.
0:30:06 > 0:30:10My involvement with FARE has been to run photographic workshops
0:30:10 > 0:30:12with groups of young people.
0:30:12 > 0:30:16Through photography, they are encouraged to articulate
0:30:16 > 0:30:19the positive and negative aspects of their lives.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25I see it as a positive.
0:30:25 > 0:30:27- The bridge.- The bridge.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31THEY LAUGH
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Berry.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Berry's ma!
0:30:39 > 0:30:40That's both.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42- Gangs?- Why's it both?
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Because you get into trouble.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49- What's this?- That's cool, man.
0:30:50 > 0:30:54- That's brilliant. - Wicked.- Wicky-wicked!
0:30:54 > 0:30:57Keep that in there for another wee...
0:30:57 > 0:30:58STAPLER CLICKS
0:30:58 > 0:31:00THEY LAUGH
0:31:00 > 0:31:04- Staple that onto him. - No, don't fucking staple it on!
0:31:04 > 0:31:06That'd be funny.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Hey, can I put it in there now?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11- Is that about a minute? - That's about three minutes.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14- Can I?- Put it into the stop bath, then.- 12, 11,
0:31:14 > 0:31:17ten, nine, eight, seven, five, four, three, two, one, is that it?
0:31:17 > 0:31:19Is that it?
0:31:19 > 0:31:21You take your printout first.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23I just sat on that. What if it burns me?
0:31:33 > 0:31:36- Can I hairdry it?- Yeah, go for it.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44Looks good.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47So what is the significance of the bridge, then?
0:31:47 > 0:31:50- What's the signifisence... - Significance!
0:31:50 > 0:31:51HE COUGHS
0:31:51 > 0:31:53What does it mean? I'll tell you.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56The bridge? Why did you photograph the bridge?
0:31:56 > 0:31:57Because it's a negative.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00- Why is it negative? - Because people fight on it.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Some of the young people we've worked with over the years
0:32:08 > 0:32:11have come from nothing short of horrendous backgrounds
0:32:11 > 0:32:15and one of the main issues that FARE have as an organisation
0:32:15 > 0:32:20is that if a young person is involved in gang violence,
0:32:20 > 0:32:25then society only see the tip of that,
0:32:25 > 0:32:29ie they see that the actual violence which is going on that
0:32:29 > 0:32:32that young person is involved in.
0:32:32 > 0:32:38What society potentially don't see is the horrendous life and background
0:32:38 > 0:32:40that that young person has come from.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01My name's Dean Crawford
0:33:01 > 0:33:03and I'm just going to tell you a bit about my life.
0:33:03 > 0:33:09When I was obviously just a baba and I had a stable family,
0:33:09 > 0:33:13a mum and dad, my three big sisters, everything was fine.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17I had a house, my family was brilliant.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21When I turned three, it was my First Communion
0:33:21 > 0:33:25and we all went to my auntie's house, had a big party and things.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27Stuff just kicked off outside.
0:33:27 > 0:33:32My dad went out to try and sort it, and things just went upside-down
0:33:32 > 0:33:34and my dad got murdered that night.
0:33:34 > 0:33:39Ever since then, things just had a bad cycle, kept going worse
0:33:39 > 0:33:43and worse and worse, so when I was starting school and things,
0:33:43 > 0:33:46I started to notice that my mum was drinking every day
0:33:46 > 0:33:49and it was getting worse, soon she was waking up,
0:33:49 > 0:33:52there was a bottle of vodka beside her on the couch
0:33:52 > 0:33:55and things like that, and I started to realise this
0:33:55 > 0:33:59and I started to realise that she wasnae stable enough to get up
0:33:59 > 0:34:02and check me for hings and stop me frae doing hings,
0:34:02 > 0:34:06so I just thought I could be bad all the time and get away with it.
0:34:09 > 0:34:13One of the things that FARE do is that once we get to know a group,
0:34:13 > 0:34:17and we get to see who maybe the leader is of that group,
0:34:17 > 0:34:19we try and recruit him.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24We were running a Friday night, Friday and Saturday night project
0:34:24 > 0:34:27called Op Phoenix, and I was running that one night
0:34:27 > 0:34:29and in walked the bold Dean.
0:34:31 > 0:34:34And when he walked in, he had everybody walking behind him,
0:34:34 > 0:34:38so he was quite clearly one of the main dudes.
0:34:39 > 0:34:44I was in primary seven, and I was away on a residential for a week,
0:34:44 > 0:34:48and we went away on the Monday and on the Wednesday, my mum had died
0:34:48 > 0:34:50with obviously alcohol and things,
0:34:50 > 0:34:54and I came back to my auntie's house and everybody was in,
0:34:54 > 0:34:58and I thought they were all there to see me, but they werenae.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01It was just to tell me that obviously my mum had died.
0:35:01 > 0:35:06I just thought the best thing to do was just hang about with my pals
0:35:06 > 0:35:08and cause fights with everybody else,
0:35:08 > 0:35:12and it was just constant children's panels, children's panels,
0:35:12 > 0:35:16getting involved with the polis, getting suspended frae school.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Going into fourth year, just afore my exams,
0:35:19 > 0:35:22and the teachers, just going, "Aye, yeah," the way I was with them,
0:35:22 > 0:35:25and trying to pick fights with them and things,
0:35:25 > 0:35:28and they just had enough of me and they kicked me out.
0:35:32 > 0:35:35When you're walking through the gorge,
0:35:35 > 0:35:37it's very important that you face the wall...
0:35:37 > 0:35:41Jimmy found out that I'd been kicked out of school,
0:35:41 > 0:35:46and phoned me up and asked me if I wanted to come and work for FARE.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48He sat me down afore it,
0:35:48 > 0:35:53and he said to me, "Look, you've got to just
0:35:53 > 0:35:56"think about all the things that you're doing and let them all go."
0:35:56 > 0:36:00He said, "You can't do it any more, you're going to be a role model,
0:36:00 > 0:36:04"to, obviously, the younger kids that you're going to work with."
0:36:04 > 0:36:08And he was like that, "I'll give you half an hour to think about it.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10"Go and take a walk, and then
0:36:10 > 0:36:13"come back to me and tell me if you want to continue on with it."
0:36:15 > 0:36:17My heid was going 90
0:36:17 > 0:36:21just trying to figure out how is this going to be possible
0:36:21 > 0:36:24to stay out of trouble, and things like that.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28But I went back and I said, "Aye, I'll take it."
0:36:28 > 0:36:32I went in for the interview and I was successful in it.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35And I had got the job,
0:36:35 > 0:36:40and that's just when my life started to get better.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Look at Andrew.
0:36:42 > 0:36:43THEY LAUGH
0:36:44 > 0:36:46Andrew!
0:36:47 > 0:36:48No, no!
0:36:50 > 0:36:53JIMMY: He was close to taking the wrong road.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57He's had a bit of a rough ride in his life,
0:36:57 > 0:37:04and he's now using that rough ride to work with young people...
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Oh, my babby.
0:37:06 > 0:37:11..and help them in their lives. And a couple of months ago,
0:37:11 > 0:37:14he won the Unsung Hero Award from the Sunday Mail
0:37:14 > 0:37:18for the whole of Scotland, which was fantastic for him, you know,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21he got dressed up in a kilt, had a really, really nice night.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24His three sisters came to the event. It was brilliant.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29So it was massive, it was massive for the community. He's from Easterhouse.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31He's a local boy from Easterhouse.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35There's not many local boys from Easterhouse who can say
0:37:35 > 0:37:36they've won the Unsung Hero Award.
0:37:44 > 0:37:48In Drumchapel, on the other side of the city, is the Argo Boxing Club.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52It's run by Davey Savage and his mate Paul McCann.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58I've known Davey for over 30 years, when at the age of ten,
0:37:58 > 0:38:02I started boxing, and he was just turning professional.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05He's been an Argo club member one way or another
0:38:05 > 0:38:07for most of his adult life.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12They opened the club up when I was young. I was about 13, 14.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15And my first time in the club was to join the dancing,
0:38:15 > 0:38:17the Kansas City Rockers.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21I was in the Kansas City Rockers for three weeks, but Jimmy Harvey
0:38:21 > 0:38:25had opened a boxing club at the same time as well, so I joined the boxing.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29Because my dad was a boxer and I always liked boxing,
0:38:29 > 0:38:32so I joined the boxing and the dancing.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35So either we came to boxing or dancing, and unfortunately,
0:38:35 > 0:38:37I stuck to the boxing.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40And that has been my life ever since.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50This is what is left of the old Argo Centre.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53In 2010, council funding was removed
0:38:53 > 0:38:56and the club was burnt to the ground shortly afterwards,
0:38:56 > 0:38:57depriving the community
0:38:57 > 0:39:01of a much-needed amenity for its young people.
0:39:01 > 0:39:06That was from 1974 until 2010. It shut down.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09And within two weeks, it was set on fire and burnt,
0:39:09 > 0:39:10and now it's lying empty.
0:39:10 > 0:39:14A big ground lying empty that they could use for youth clubs kids.
0:39:14 > 0:39:15And now they've got nothing.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Lack of money on the council, they have.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22A lack of trying, the council have!
0:39:24 > 0:39:28Davey didn't take the loss of the old Argo Centre lying down.
0:39:28 > 0:39:31New premises were leased and eventually,
0:39:31 > 0:39:35a new Argo Boxing Club emerged from little more than a burnt-out shell.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Home!
0:39:54 > 0:39:58This is the club, this is the building we got when we came in.
0:39:58 > 0:40:02So you can see, that it looks pretty good, so this is...
0:40:02 > 0:40:06When we came in, there was no ceiling. This is a new build.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09New doors, new lighting, new everything.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11This was just a shell,
0:40:11 > 0:40:15so we've taken over and we've done well with it so far. So...
0:40:15 > 0:40:18- It was just brick walls? - It was just brick walls.
0:40:18 > 0:40:23Just brick walls, no ceiling. No lighting. No nothing.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25There was three inch of water in here,
0:40:25 > 0:40:29cos the vandals came in and they had the copper pipes for scrap,
0:40:29 > 0:40:33so we managed to get the flooding out and get that sorted.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36So, this is coming on good now. It looks the part.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47In my early youth, staying in Kendoon, tenements everywhere,
0:40:47 > 0:40:49gangs everywhere.
0:40:49 > 0:40:53So the boxing gave me an escape to maybe get away from the gangs,
0:40:53 > 0:40:56but I did get involved with some young boys
0:40:56 > 0:40:58and we did things that young boys done.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04When we were about 15, we used to go into the Clydebank and fight
0:41:04 > 0:41:08with boys of the Clydebank, and boys of the Clydebank would fight us.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Because I think then, a Friday night, if I wasn't at boxing,
0:41:11 > 0:41:14the boxing was on a Monday and Thursday then.
0:41:14 > 0:41:18So it was four different gangs in the Drumchapel areas
0:41:18 > 0:41:22and a lot of the boys I knew involved with weapons,
0:41:22 > 0:41:26and some of them got stabbed, some of them got chipped.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29But that was one thing which I was never involved with.
0:41:29 > 0:41:33I didn't like weapons, I always used my hands and fought with my hands,
0:41:33 > 0:41:36but as I got to about 16, I was getting in more and more fights.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39I was getting wee chances of winning championships and that,
0:41:39 > 0:41:45so it was the boxing kept me away from a lot of the violence.
0:41:45 > 0:41:46It really done me good.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Ten, nine, eight,
0:41:56 > 0:42:00seven, six, five,
0:42:00 > 0:42:04four, three, two, one.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11Go faster! Ten, nine, eight,
0:42:11 > 0:42:15seven, six, five,
0:42:15 > 0:42:19four, three, two, one.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29The kids from Drumchapel, the kids from Clydebank,
0:42:29 > 0:42:33kids from Bearsden, kids from Maryhill,
0:42:33 > 0:42:36and most importantly, it's to get all these kids involved
0:42:36 > 0:42:39with each other, and so they've got pals everywhere.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42No enemies, no-one has a fear to go from Drumchapel to
0:42:42 > 0:42:44Clydebank to Maryhill.
0:42:44 > 0:42:45They've got the confidence,
0:42:45 > 0:42:49because they know different people from different areas.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59It's Thursday night. Fight night. Fight night Thursday.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02That's at the Albion Social Club in Yoker,
0:43:02 > 0:43:04they're having an amateur show.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06All of these boys, they're all fighting on this show,
0:43:06 > 0:43:10so we're just getting them prepared for Thursday.
0:43:10 > 0:43:14Hopefully, we'll have four winners or five winners.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18One of the boys isn't here yet. Hopefully, five winners.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Keep going! That's it!
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Keep going!
0:43:26 > 0:43:29An event on this scale means several months of organisation over
0:43:29 > 0:43:32and above the coaching commitments of the Argo team.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34No-one is paid for what they do,
0:43:34 > 0:43:37and it's this hard work at a grassroots level,
0:43:37 > 0:43:41here and in other parts of the city, that is making a difference.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Against all odds, the Argo club has not only been rebuilt,
0:43:46 > 0:43:48virtually from scratch,
0:43:48 > 0:43:52but they have doubled the club's opening hours to five nights a week.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55More young people than ever, now benefit from this essential
0:43:55 > 0:43:57service to the community.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06And across the ring in the red corner,
0:44:06 > 0:44:10wearing black shorts with white trim, official weight 43.2 kilos,
0:44:10 > 0:44:17boxing right here for the Argo, here's Kieran Smith!
0:44:17 > 0:44:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:44:21 > 0:44:23BELL RINGS
0:44:25 > 0:44:28SHOUTS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Come on, Kieran! Fight, Kieran!
0:44:50 > 0:44:53The most important thing is for kids to get involved with sport
0:44:53 > 0:44:56and get fit. Whether I get a boxer or a football player,
0:44:56 > 0:45:00but if I get a kid from the ages of 11 to 15, 16, they are away
0:45:00 > 0:45:05from that drug and alcohol system, and that is the bad age.
0:45:05 > 0:45:08From 15 - 14, 15, 16, they are starting to try things
0:45:08 > 0:45:12with their pals, alcohol, drink, smoking, drugs.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15If you can get them in the club at that age,
0:45:15 > 0:45:19get them involved with the sport, get them training,
0:45:19 > 0:45:21get them away a couple of weekends, then they know,
0:45:21 > 0:45:23there's more to life than drink
0:45:23 > 0:45:26and drugs, hundreds of things to do in life.
0:45:42 > 0:45:46The plan for this morning is, we're going to run a DVD to show,
0:45:46 > 0:45:49really, the bits that we see that possibly you don't see.
0:45:49 > 0:45:53The bits that people who have carried out violence,
0:45:53 > 0:45:56who have had violence carried out on them, who've had family members
0:45:56 > 0:45:58that were affected by violence, professionals trying
0:45:58 > 0:46:01to treat people affected by violence,
0:46:01 > 0:46:02to show what it looks like.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05Medics Against Violence, or MAV,
0:46:05 > 0:46:07is another group I've been involved with.
0:46:07 > 0:46:12It's a charity set up in 2008 and runs programmes that visit schools
0:46:12 > 0:46:16with the aim of educating young people on the impact of violence.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19I'm proud to have some of the original project photographs
0:46:19 > 0:46:22as part of the programme.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25Michael Murray is a consultant anaesthetist who has been
0:46:25 > 0:46:28involved with MAV from its outset.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31We introduce ourselves, we show a DVD,
0:46:31 > 0:46:35and the DVD contains stories of people who have been
0:46:35 > 0:46:37involved in violence, you know on the receiving end,
0:46:37 > 0:46:39been the perpetrators,
0:46:39 > 0:46:41been professionals that have been dealing with violence.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43They show the impact it makes.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46A 14-year-old boy had taken a bottle of Buckfast from one
0:46:46 > 0:46:49of the other gang members, from the opposite gang.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51And he took a drink of it.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54Therefore, that gang then pulled a screwdriver out on this young
0:46:54 > 0:46:56boy and stabbed him several times,
0:46:56 > 0:47:00one of which went in the front of him and out the back.
0:47:00 > 0:47:05He's screaming for his mum. He just kept saying, I don't want to die.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08I don't want to die. And his clothes were soaked with blood.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10By that point, we contacted the ambulance and they came
0:47:10 > 0:47:14and it was just at that point, it was too late, the wee boy had died.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16You know, right in front of my eyes.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21Part of the school talks are also to dispel myths that carrying
0:47:21 > 0:47:23a knife keeps you safe.
0:47:23 > 0:47:28We've probably spoken to something like 13,000 children
0:47:28 > 0:47:30across the West of Scotland in particular so far,
0:47:30 > 0:47:33but we have covered larger areas as well.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36And really, it seems to have had a significant impact.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39If you ever go out at night, does your mother ever say,
0:47:39 > 0:47:42are you going out, son or hen? Take a machete with you.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45Or take a handgun.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48You know, mums are usually people that try to keep you safe.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51But if you're carrying a weapon, what it does is,
0:47:51 > 0:47:52it does the opposite. It makes you...
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Carrying a weapon changes your behaviour.
0:47:55 > 0:47:56And they put you at risk.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05Like many of his colleagues involved with MAV,
0:48:05 > 0:48:07Michael's motivation for volunteering in the programme
0:48:07 > 0:48:09stems from his personal experiences,
0:48:09 > 0:48:12prepping victims of violent assault for surgery.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19There was one particular case, a boy had been standing at a bus stop.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22Another man had been in a fight earlier,
0:48:22 > 0:48:26decided to go out with a baseball bat and get revenge on who
0:48:26 > 0:48:29he thought perpetrated the initial incident.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31He couldn't find him,
0:48:31 > 0:48:36so this boy, who was about 21, 22, was standing at a bus stop
0:48:36 > 0:48:40and this guy struck him over the head with a baseball bat.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43Just one blow, walked off, the chap was found.
0:48:43 > 0:48:47He had died about four or five days later,
0:48:47 > 0:48:51and at some point, you suddenly think, this is just insane!
0:48:51 > 0:48:54It achieves nothing and it is happening all the time.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57When you going to work on a daily basis, and half of your very
0:48:57 > 0:49:00expensive to run intensive care unit is full of assault victims
0:49:00 > 0:49:03and people who, frankly, are going to need to be
0:49:03 > 0:49:07cared for for the rest of your life at enormous cost to the
0:49:07 > 0:49:11taxpayer. And at that stage, and a few weeks after that,
0:49:11 > 0:49:14Medics Against Violence almost happened to run
0:49:14 > 0:49:17their official launch here. And I thought, if we could change
0:49:17 > 0:49:20and prevent this from happening,
0:49:20 > 0:49:23this would be a much better way to go, so when Medics Against Violence
0:49:23 > 0:49:27launched, I thought it seemed like the ideal opportunity
0:49:27 > 0:49:31to actually move in to try to stop some of these things happening.
0:49:37 > 0:49:41Well, that's eight years since you were here.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45And in that eight years, there's a huge leap forward.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47That's not saying it won't go back, that we
0:49:47 > 0:49:50won't ever have wee spurts, we always will,
0:49:50 > 0:49:54but in the main, I think it is going in the right direction.
0:49:56 > 0:50:02Medics Against Violence was thought up by a few doctors.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05In other words, they were a bit fed up with patching folk up,
0:50:05 > 0:50:07young men, patching them up,
0:50:07 > 0:50:11sending them out and then the same men are re-presenting again
0:50:11 > 0:50:14a few months later with more slashing, stabbing wounds,
0:50:14 > 0:50:16anything like that.
0:50:16 > 0:50:20In the main, it's just all doctors and us being paramedics,
0:50:20 > 0:50:23we were thinking, we're the ones in the forefront of this,
0:50:23 > 0:50:26we're the ones that are the first contact that these patients have,
0:50:26 > 0:50:31and we thought we have something we could give to this.
0:50:31 > 0:50:32And they accepted us,
0:50:32 > 0:50:36they put us through the training and we've been going into schools.
0:50:36 > 0:50:40Hopefully, that does change people's perceptions.
0:50:40 > 0:50:45There's no point talking to adults who walk about with knives,
0:50:45 > 0:50:48because you're not going to change all their minds,
0:50:48 > 0:50:50they're going to be walking about with knives.
0:50:50 > 0:50:52But if you get to youngsters
0:50:52 > 0:50:56and change their perceptions young enough, hopefully, they'll grow
0:50:56 > 0:50:58up to be sensible young men that won't need
0:50:58 > 0:51:00to walk about with a knife.
0:51:04 > 0:51:07We only ever hear about the bad things in Glasgow,
0:51:07 > 0:51:10how violent it is, and it is violent.
0:51:10 > 0:51:15But it's getting better, and there are so many young, inspirational
0:51:15 > 0:51:22people in Scotland, and especially in Glasgow, young men and women that
0:51:22 > 0:51:27are making a difference to their lives and other people's lives.
0:51:27 > 0:51:31And it's trying to take that forward and just give them a chance,
0:51:31 > 0:51:36just let young people have a chance, let them get an education,
0:51:36 > 0:51:41let them experience things that are there to be experienced.
0:51:43 > 0:51:44And let them live.
0:51:44 > 0:51:50And hopefully, let their parents see them
0:51:50 > 0:51:55grow up and enjoy them until they're old and grey.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58And that is just something I will never have the chance to do.
0:52:10 > 0:52:11It's a passion for me, it is
0:52:11 > 0:52:14a passion for most of the people that work for FARE.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17And it's a little bit of passion for most youth workers.
0:52:17 > 0:52:18It's not about the money.
0:52:18 > 0:52:22It's very poorly paid, in my opinion, for what we do.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25But it is a crucial part of society now,
0:52:25 > 0:52:30that youth workers can have an influence on young people's lives
0:52:30 > 0:52:33and get them to the next stage in life.
0:52:33 > 0:52:35But it's not just about the worker,
0:52:35 > 0:52:38it's about that youth worker working in partnership with schools
0:52:38 > 0:52:42and education and police and housing and a whole host of other things.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44But the young person needs to be able to trust you.
0:52:44 > 0:52:47To get the benefit out of the relationship,
0:52:47 > 0:52:49the young person needs to be able to trust you.
0:52:49 > 0:52:53And young people do like rules in their life. They like boundaries.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56Because that is why they try to overstep them.
0:52:56 > 0:53:00If there's no boundaries there, then the game is not as fun.
0:53:07 > 0:53:10I've had lots of bad days, young people getting killed,
0:53:10 > 0:53:12stabbed, wounded.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17Having an impact on people,
0:53:17 > 0:53:22sometimes it falls on deaf ears, you know, and one of my worst days was
0:53:22 > 0:53:27when a young person I worked quite closely with got 17 years for murder.
0:53:28 > 0:53:34I found that quite sad that I had the possibility to influence that
0:53:34 > 0:53:40young person and yet, when they were 18 years old,
0:53:40 > 0:53:45they felt the need to go out and stab somebody.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48Quite horrendously, actually.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54And that is sad. Pretty sad.
0:53:54 > 0:53:55So they're not good days.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03We see young people getting on in life and doing really,
0:54:03 > 0:54:05really well for themselves. Magic.
0:54:05 > 0:54:11They come back to you years later and thank you. Thanks very much.
0:54:11 > 0:54:16That's my way of looking at the negatives,
0:54:16 > 0:54:19if I look at the negatives, there are far more positives.
0:54:19 > 0:54:22So, although sad at the time, you need to get on,
0:54:22 > 0:54:24because if you don't get on,
0:54:24 > 0:54:27you can't help other young people in future, and that's the way I see it.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37Tonight, there's going to be a rave in the Bridge, there's
0:54:37 > 0:54:42going to be over 400 young people from how many areas?
0:54:42 > 0:54:45- From 16 different areas. - 16 different areas.
0:54:45 > 0:54:51There's going to be six different, 68 different acts performing. GBX.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53- GB Experience!- George Bowie.
0:54:53 > 0:54:58The main act, so that's attracting all of these young people.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01- What about James Kerr? - Aye, James Kerr.
0:55:01 > 0:55:05This is probably about the 10th, 8th, 10th rave?
0:55:05 > 0:55:07Numbers have been quite good in the past,
0:55:07 > 0:55:09but this is the biggest rave we've had. So...
0:55:12 > 0:55:16It will be, it should be good.
0:55:16 > 0:55:20These raves that we're going to tonight only started about two
0:55:20 > 0:55:23years ago. When I was younger, it was the project raves,
0:55:23 > 0:55:26which were very small-scale, compared to these.
0:55:26 > 0:55:29You probably had about 30 wee dafties in a wee hall for the one
0:55:29 > 0:55:33scheme, sometimes two,
0:55:33 > 0:55:36but they are very small compared to what we can do now,
0:55:36 > 0:55:41because you couldn't obviously integrate so many rival areas.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43HE TOOTS THE BUS HORN
0:55:43 > 0:55:46But ten year ago, some of us saw the work that happened
0:55:46 > 0:55:49in the past years, we can now bring all these different areas together.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52LOUD MUSIC PLAYS
0:55:56 > 0:55:58HE LAUGHS AND SINGS
0:55:58 > 0:56:00THEY LAUGH
0:56:01 > 0:56:04I think it was about 20 organisations,
0:56:04 > 0:56:06all working together for the same goal, to ensure that young
0:56:06 > 0:56:10people had a great time, and that is what partnership work is about,
0:56:10 > 0:56:12and that is the community spirit that we have now
0:56:12 > 0:56:16in the north-east about all of these organisations coming together,
0:56:16 > 0:56:18for the benefit of the young people
0:56:18 > 0:56:21and the communities that we serve in.
0:56:24 > 0:56:29DANCE MUSIC PLAYS
0:56:59 > 0:57:02What's happening here tonight is amazing.
0:57:02 > 0:57:06400 young people are here from 16 different areas of the city,
0:57:06 > 0:57:08all having a great time.
0:57:08 > 0:57:12Back when I started the knife crime project, an event like this
0:57:12 > 0:57:15couldn't have happened without some kind of violence kicking off.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20There's no doubt that Glasgow still has its problems, especially
0:57:20 > 0:57:23when alcohol and weapons are combined.
0:57:23 > 0:57:25But since I have finished the project,
0:57:25 > 0:57:29knife attacks in Glasgow have dropped by 57%,
0:57:29 > 0:57:33and in the last year, fatal stabbings are down by 23%.
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Tonight proves that the interventions
0:57:36 > 0:57:40coming from a diverse group of organisations and individuals,
0:57:40 > 0:57:42are working better than anyone could have hoped for.
0:57:44 > 0:57:48# And I said hey, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:57:48 > 0:57:50# Hey, yeah, yeah... #
0:57:50 > 0:57:53It was a great night. You know, fantastic night,
0:57:53 > 0:57:56and that's what it's about. Young people enjoying themselves.
0:57:56 > 0:57:59You don't need to be running about with a knife in your hand
0:57:59 > 0:58:02and a brick and a bottle to enjoy yourself.
0:58:02 > 0:58:05It's showing young people an alternative to violence.
0:58:05 > 0:58:07# I said hey
0:58:07 > 0:58:09# What's going on? #
0:58:22 > 0:58:25# And I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
0:58:25 > 0:58:28# Just to get it all out, what's in my head
0:58:28 > 0:58:34# And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
0:58:35 > 0:58:39# And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
0:58:39 > 0:58:42# And I take deep breath and I get real high
0:58:42 > 0:58:45# And I scream from the top of my lungs
0:58:45 > 0:58:46# What's goin' on?! #