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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @06:28AM (6 children)
what if the attacker has a pointed stick?
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday April 09 2018, @06:32AM
Or a blunt, rusty spoon? Won't somebody think of the children?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday April 09 2018, @07:18AM (3 children)
Damn, left bananas off my list!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:18AM
Then don't blame me, when some homicidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of . . .
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/fruit.php
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 09 2018, @03:39PM (1 child)
Please don't forget the evils of Tea Cups. Vin Diesel showed the evils thereof.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:25PM
Do you want English anarchy? Cause they is how you get English anarchy.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday April 09 2018, @03:16PM
Let him attack you. Seriously. See here: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=24987&cid=664479 [soylentnews.org]