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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, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @06:50AM (2 children)
Yes, class warfare is precisely what every country needs. How else are the politicos supposed to control us if they can't serve us up a convenient enemy to hate instead of them?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @07:26AM
If only you had some class, Minty Frombart! At least some class, even a low class! Middle class? But then, there is nonesuch in Oklahoma, and Tennessee is nothing but low. So sad, too bad. May I recommend your local Community College, once again? You might acquire some knowledge, and hence some class. Or, you can stay the red-neck noodling fisher-person you claim to be, and watch your own country go down in flames, lies, perfidy, and stock-market crashes. And you think you will survive this? Oh, TMB, we are in this together, and you are going down with the rest of us. And your one little "symbolic, never been fired" assault weapon will count for naught. We are coming for your capital gains, Chuck!!!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:01PM
Yes, institutionalized oppression and obscene levels of inequality are precisely what every country needs...
The problem is not that the politicos control us, but that the extremely wealthy exert undue influence over the politicians and the rest of us as well.
Why is slavery never called class warfare, only attempts by the victims to end it?