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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: 5, Informative) by TheRaven on Monday April 09 2018, @09:12AM (4 children)
How about the fact that they declared communists to be their enemies? The fact that they were in favour of private ownership of the means of production? The fact that they believed that some people were sub-human based on their ethnicity or sexuality?
Or do you also think that the Democratic Republic of Congo is democratic?
sudo mod me up
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @01:40PM (3 children)
They declared everyone and their dog to be their enemies. Communists were not special in this.
<sarcasm>Yes, you can tell this by how they never nationalized anything. Good little capitalists, they were.</sarcasm>
So do modern leftists. They're in fact the vast majority of people who care about ethnicity or sexuality at all. They're currently just hating on anyone who's white, male, or heterosexual which is perfectly okay by their logic just as hating Jews and such was perfectly okay by Nazi logic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday April 09 2018, @08:18PM (2 children)
Methinks that left-right has very little to do with prejudice (other than what group is being pre-judged). Prejudice is inherently human behavior that comes directly from our reptilian brains. Some people are just less adept at suppressing that impulse. Plenty of those on both sides of left-right.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @09:32PM
It sounds like you are admitting to being a reptilian who psychically induces prejudice in humans, but are deflecting any blame or responsibility by saying it is only taking advantage of an innate ability. Ie you aren't making any humans do anything, just giving them an impulse. This is where conspiracies come from.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @09:50PM
Normally I'd agree with you but the left has been cultivating prejudice as a political weapon for several decades now. The right is happy to take advantage of naturally occurring prejudice but it doesn't really put any effort into creating it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.