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POUNDLAND has banned the sale of kitchen knives across the UK in response to the crime wave hitting the country.
The retailer stopped selling the weapons in London last week and is set to extend the ban to all 850 of its UK and Ireland stores by the end of the year.
The move follows 35 people being fatally stabbed in London since the beginning of the year as violence in the capital spikes.
Austin Cook Poundland's retail director said: "We have committed to take knives out of all our stores, starting with London, which we have done with immediate effect a couple of weeks ago, and we will take them out of the rest of the country by October.
"Since I've come into my role we have had a lot of feedback from our store colleagues that we are retailing knives that can have the wrong ultimate purpose for them.
"We want to take them off our shelves and take them out of the hands of the wrong customers and, whilst there is a sales implication for us, it's much more important to us to protect both our colleagues and our customers from any risk.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6069878/poundland-stop-selling-knives-london-stabbings/
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Town-centre pound store prosecuted for knife sale
Management and training procedures at the town-centre branch of a national retail chain were questioned when the company was prosecuted for the sale of a knife to under-age customers.
Poundworld Retail Ltd appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on 16 May and was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs after being found guilty of selling a knife to a person under the age of 18. The total penalty, including victim surcharge, amounted to £8,520.
The court heard that, as part of a test-purchasing exercise conducted by the council's trading standards department, two 14-year-old volunteers went to the store's North End branch on 28 May 2015 and, after selecting a kitchen knife from a display, took it for payment to one of the tills.
The sales assistant, on only his second day at work in the store, failed to challenge the youngsters and the sale was completed.
http://news.croydon.gov.uk/town-centre-pound-store-prosecuted-for-knife-sale/
'You cannot be soft on this': Boris Johnson calls for stop and search increase to combat London knife crime surge
Boris Johnson has called for an increased use of stop and search powers to combat knife crime following a spate of fatal stabbings in London.
The Foreign Secretary warned against "going soft" as he insisted that Scotland Yard and Sadiq Khan "come down like a ton of bricks" on gang leaders.
His comments came after teenager Sami Sidhom, 18, was knifed to death on Monday night in the capital's third killing in two days.
Mr Johnson said when he was Mayor of London he adopted a dual approach that boosted stop and search incidents while mentoring young people to prevent them getting sucked into gang violence.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, he told current London mayor Sadiq Khan: "You cannot be soft on this."
London murder rate overtakes New York as knife crime rises
LONDON (Reuters) - London police investigated more murders than their New York counterparts did over the last two months, statistics show, as the British capital's mayor vowed to fight a "violent scourge" on the streets.
There were 15 murders in London in February against 14 in New York, according to London's Metropolitan Police Service and the New York Police Department. For March, 22 murders were investigated in London, with 21 reports in New York.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:51PM (8 children)
OK, so what is the model that allows you to predict when and where people will be stabbed? It would be very useful for the police to be able to use the predictive model to be on the scene to catch the perpetrators, or even prevent the crime. If you are unable to predict when and where stabbings will take place, how is that different from random?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @01:56PM
Yes, now you are getting it. Random just means *you* don't know why so you substitute a probabilistic model for the true process. There is nothing "natural" or "normal" about it. It is totally subjective.
(Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:36PM (5 children)
Easy Peasey. Where you see invaders you see crime, knife crime among it along with sexual assaults, muggings, etc. What is difficult is saying that in public and what is apparently impossible is making policy around such an obvious fact. It it will remain impossible until an impossible to predict in advance inflection point is hit, then it will either be impossible to do anything else or because it is too late and the final genocide is too far along to stop. One or the other, there isn't a third option likely to present itself, the current madness will ratchet up until it causes a horrible reactionary blowback or comes to its bloody conclusion.
(Score: 2, Troll) by edIII on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:45PM (3 children)
There's no invaders you stupid fucking nitwit. It's mentally and morally deficient hate filled pieces of shit like you that can see some women and children fleeing violence as "invaders". Likewise, some non-white immigrants that just want a good life with freedom, are not intrinsically invaders either. According to your warped logic, which completely ignores the actual numbers, all migrants are invaders. EXCEPT Norwegians right? Beautiful white people don't count right?
It would be funny if fuckwits like you weren't ruining America right now. You guys could see a dozen teenagers as an "invasion" into a mall that already has a thousand people. Likewise, 10k people on the border attempting to enter a country with 350 million people, without military arms, backup, or supply lines, isn't an invasion.
I would suggest you pick up a dictionary and educate yourself on what invaders actually were, and what invasions actually are. That would presume you could incorporate new information past your hate filters, or as you would understand it, liberal information is invading your brain.
Fucking racist dumbass.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @08:20PM (1 child)
My brother had a fruit farm near San Diego. Last year *some group of people* moved into the area from the south and started stealing his fruit and taking over the land. The authorities would do nothing, so he knocked down all the structures, destroyed the crops as much as possible, and abandoned it. Now he lives in his car.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @10:46PM
It isn't funny, that is what this illegal immigration policy is doing. It is destroying lives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 07 2019, @09:41AM
What will you do when it is your daughter? Your wife? Your mother?
When your family can't go swimming at a public pool for fear or sexual harassment.
When it becomes normal, like it has been in the UK, for young girls to be groomed for sexual slavery.
What will you do when it is you they come for giving you the choice of joining their evil cult or dying.
These are the choices being faced by people today in countries across Europe.
Think carefully before replying. They will rape and kill men too.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 03 2019, @04:10AM
I was going to say you could probably predict it pretty well around Christian and Jewish holidays and institutions, but same principle. And same source.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @07:16PM
Apropos London, It's a model they can't use, as it profiles certain groups that they're not allowed to profile..
Ah, again, the application of the model they can't use would lead to the use the good old 'Sus laws' they can't use coz' 'profiling'..
In London, if it were truly random stabby-cuntery going on, then one would naturally expect the media to be reporting on a number of white-stabby-cunt-on-white-stabby-cunt crimes, asian-stabby-cunt-on-asian-stabby-cunt crimes, any_coloured_stabby-cunt-on-any_coloured_civilian crimes and various mixes of these...but no, all we're seeing is black-stabby-cunt-on-black-stabby-cunt related stuff, and we're not even supposed to say (or even think, lest we be profiling yet again) the two magic words 'gang related' here or even throw in an 'internecine' for good measure, as, naturally, all the reported victims were as pure as the driven fucking snow....