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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 β is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months β 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 β 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: 2) by Apparition on Monday April 09 2018, @07:54AM (3 children)
According to the article, it will also soon extend to a ban on buying knives online, and home knife deliveries.
No more cutting up food for Londoners, it seems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:16AM
But if it just saves one life, itβs worth it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @10:52AM (1 child)
That's right, the most authoritarian and least effective measures possible. Makes perfect sense to restrict home deliveries of kitchen knives when prisoners have no problem fashioning shanks from tin cans and scraps of wood.
The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, made getting rid of stop and search a centrepiece of his electoral platform and a 2 millennia record in violent crime is the result. This is what happens when civil servants are guilty of wilfully ignoring evidence [spectator.co.uk] in favour of grievance-mongering word salads about racism and cuts to "youth services". Khan blames the government for police funding cuts while he himself diverted funds to create a "hate crime" hub.
The solution to this mess will not be found in partisan finger pointing, only by putting an end to "progressive policing".
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 09 2018, @06:54PM
Most interesting typo I've seen recently. This Sadiq Khan fellow has been the mayor of London for the last 2000 years?
I'm fairly confident Londinium actually *did* exist 2000 years ago, but come on. Anything this guy has done can't possibly have resulted in two millennia of anything.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"