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

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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 09 2018, @01:39PM (3 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 09 2018, @01:39PM (#664398) Journal

    ...but counter it by permanently arming all our police with Samurai swords and giving them carte blanche to behead anybody that looks as if they might be about to pull a knife?

    It's called stand your ground and had been demonstratively proved in a court of law that you can shoot a man dead, claim self defence, and walk free. Plus this is America. We use guns thank you very much.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday April 09 2018, @06:00PM (2 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Monday April 09 2018, @06:00PM (#664570) Journal

    Same in UK
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43676359 [bbc.co.uk]

    Although nothing as uncivilised as a blaster.

    A man arrested on suspicion of murdering a suspected burglar has been released without charge.

    Richard Osborn-Brooks discovered two intruders at his home in South Park Crescent Hither Green, south-east London, on Wednesday.

    The 78-year-old was arrested after Henry Vincent, 37, from Kent, was fatally stabbed during a struggle in the kitchen.

    (I prefer the caption on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43639183 [bbc.co.uk] though -- http://imgur.com/qTTpPq8l.png [imgur.com] -- that's what a UK forensic tent looks like. Other call it "The Pub".

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 09 2018, @10:14PM (1 child)

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday April 09 2018, @10:14PM (#664714) Journal

      I know a guy who did 4 years for manslaughter after he stabbed his mothers boyfriend to death in a struggle when he was 17. Really shameful part was he was defending his mother from the boyfriend who had stabbed her in a fight. Apparently his mother is also a piece of shit and was more upset the boyfriend died than the state threatening her child with 2nd degree murder. From what he says, he wrestled the knife away and then plunged the knife into the dude. He didn't want to kill him. He just wanted this man to stop stabbing his mother and himself so that was his reaction, tit-for-tat. Prosecution saw it as murder and fucking grand jury was like yea off to jail. Didnt help that he's Hispanic. Apparently his mother didn't help him at all as the lowlife she was, thought it was better to cry over the dead boyfriend who, by the way did I already mention that he fucking stabbed her? So yea. He almost took a plea bargain for 7 years for man 1 or 2 but his lawyer worked out a deal for 5 years with possible early parole. He did something like 2 in Rikers, four months in minimum until they realized he was in for man and then upstate somewhere for 4 years total.

      He copes by telling funny jail stories and using his brain to get a degree and now does game journalism. He travels the country and in some rare cases, the world, playing video games, conducting interviews and writing articles. He did good for a guy who was fucked over by not only the justice system but his own mother. And he's only 28 or 29.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:47AM

        by isostatic (365) on Thursday April 12 2018, @11:47AM (#665857) Journal

        So self defence isn't always a defence in the US.