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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges

posted by martyb on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:34PM   
from the pointed-comments dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?

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Original Submission

• Re:Hey, editors! You've been trolled! (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @10:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @10:27PM (#946032)

  Nothing to do with "the design is meant to reduce the crime in UK"

  Kate O’Neill, Head of Product and Marketing at Rayware, told the ECHO the plans had come from the "drip drip" effect of constant bleak headlines about rising knife crime. She said: "The directors live locally and they all read the same news we all do. Viners Assure safety knives, developed in Speke, which their makers say are "impossible to stab someone with"

  "From the very top we thought we can do something about this."

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