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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says

posted by martyb on Friday June 01 2018, @04:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-question dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.

Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.

[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.

[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/27/knives-sharp-filing-solution-soaring-violent-crime-judge-says/

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday June 01 2018, @01:49PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday June 01 2018, @01:49PM (#687233) Homepage
    "Didn't have" is pushing it a bit far. Violent crime was lower historically, the stats bear that out. And if you did deeper the association between crime and newly arrived sub-populations is strong. It's not a huge swing in the UK, to be honest, as, as you say, there always was a noticeable level of crime in all urban areas.

    However, in Finland, the change in crime with the change in demographics has been **ENORMOUS** (yes, that level of emphasis is needed). When I first lived there in the early 90s, it wouldn't be too extreme to say that there was no crime. Even minor things were front page headlines. For some types of violent crime, rates have gone up by well over an order of magnitude. Where I used to live, Espoo, a year without any reported rapes used to be an unexceptional thing, now a month without one would be unusual. And yes, the perpetrators do reinforce the stereotypes.

    Strangely, though, as the non-violent crimes of vandalism and graffiti rose at the same time, from just observing he environs, and the people within it, I became 100% sure that it was Finns who were behind this increase, not the immigrants. They were all angry young males at that, and presumably they were angry at the increased immigration, because reasons.
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @05:50PM (#687353)

    presumably they were angry at the increased immigration, because reasons.

    I'd say you covered the reasons quite well.