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London Mayor Cracking Down on the Carrying of Knives

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 09 2018, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-next? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @08:51AM (5 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @08:51AM (#664303) Journal

    Then again, I'm not in a police state.

    Can you please be more clear about where the above happened to you and which exactly is the police state you are referring to (or give an example, if possible many other states would qualify in your opinion)? Thanks.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by TheRaven on Monday April 09 2018, @09:09AM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Monday April 09 2018, @09:09AM (#664309) Journal
    Not the GP, but I live in the UK and used to be involved in dark-ages reenactment, and would carry an EN45 spring-steel broadsword (blunt edges) to events once or twice a week. I walked past police officers a few times and never had any issues with it. Then again, I'm a middle-class white male...
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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:59PM (#664508)

      I also live in the UK.

      I live very very close to the place where a policeman shot some guy dead who was carrying a table leg because he thought it was a gun.
      (Should have gone to Specsavers). In a separate and allegedly unrelated incident not very far away, one armed police officer shot
      another dead at a range of about 25 feet.

      It may not be a police state, but the plod are not recruited on the basis of brain power.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Rivenaleem on Monday April 09 2018, @09:48AM

    by Rivenaleem (3400) on Monday April 09 2018, @09:48AM (#664322)

    I'm in Ireland. I was crossing a university campus from the car park to the sports centre (I sometimes park further away to get a little walk in before class). Sure there's a bit of exaggeration but the US really isn't that far from a Police state, and London, which is certainly a surveillance state, isn't far behind.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @03:07PM (#664473)

    which exactly is the police state you are referring to

    Not OP, but you're blind if you can't see that the Fascist Corporations of America is the most well-known police state currently in existence. (Apologies to OP if he means a different police state.) A police state filled with chicken-shit, pants-pissing, shoot first ask questions never, roid-raging man-baby police, but still a police state.

    America: Lane of the fee, home of the terrified.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @03:25PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @03:25PM (#664491) Journal

      Not OP, but you're blind if you can't see that the Fascist Corporations of America is the most well-known police state currently in existence.

      Whoaa, there... I didn't raised the question implying a denoal there is a police state somewhere.
      I simply asked "What was the place where police still showed common sense and which police state you are alluding to?"

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