Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.
When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:35PM
Theresa May ignored a Home Office paper [telegraph.co.uk] making the case that the reason more black males were stopped was because most of the men on the street in black areas happened to be black.
According to David Lammy [bbc.co.uk]
"In the last 10 years, since the Somalis and the Congolese came to London, they taught us a whole new level of violence". [standard.co.uk]
"An influx of immigrants from violent countries is contributing to gang warfare, police have warned". [standard.co.uk]
Many offenders have previous convictions for carrying a knife and the sentences are not harsh enough. We now have random attacks [twitter.com] even against children. [bbc.co.uk] Like the Muslim child grooming scandal, the "PC police" are part of the problem. What we need is good old fashioned 6ft tall police - with truncheons.