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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, @08:53AM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @08:53AM (#664305) Journal

    Yes, because it is totally impossible for police to distinguish between a thug with a blade tucked into the waistband of their jeans and a cook on the bus to work with their knives wrapped up in their chef's whites all safely zipped up in a rucksack.

    I wasn't mocking the policemen, but rather the honorable mayor of London.

    (I actually hate when people rely on absolutes like ""No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife").

    I hope what I meant is clearer now.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @02:01PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:01PM (#664414) Journal

    > I actually hate when people rely on absolutes

    People should not rely on absolutes! (this BTW is an absolute).

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @02:24PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @02:24PM (#664441) Journal

      People can rely on whatever they what, the fact that I hate it or not impose no obligations on them.
      But then again, I'm not the mayor of London (and this is another absolute)

      (large grin)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by theluggage on Monday April 09 2018, @02:24PM (1 child)

    by theluggage (1797) on Monday April 09 2018, @02:24PM (#664440)

    I wasn't mocking the policemen, but rather the honorable mayor of London.

    To be fair, he is a politician and was talking to a media who can't cope with anything longer than a 12-word soundbite. A long recital of the precise rules on how to legally convey sharp instruments from A to B would not have been appropriate for the context - and certainly would only have made it into the report if the media could misquote it in a sensational way. There's a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue between the media and politicians when it comes to conveying complexity: we tend to get the politicians our media deserve.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @02:37PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 09 2018, @02:37PM (#664450) Journal

      To be fair, he is a politician and was talking to a media who can't cope with anything longer than a 12-word soundbite. A long recital of the precise rules on how to legally convey sharp instruments from A to B would not have been appropriate for the context - and certainly would only have made it into the report if the media could misquote it in a sensational way.

      Look, in Australia, this thing is as old as 1998 [sportingshooter.com.au] and it can be expressed, without prepositions or other connectives, in about 30 or so words:

      a person must not, without reasonable excuse (proof of which lies on the person), have in his or her custody a knife in a public place or a school. A 'knife' includes a knife blade, a razor blade and any other blade.

      Hardy something a news-critter can interpret or twist.

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