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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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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:44PM (1 child)
Speed cameras? People still speed. Lots of money in it through.
Red light cameras? Apparently the sign does more than the camera.
Smoke detectors at bus stops? People still light up next to a queue of people waiting to catch public transport.
CCTV? Idiots still one punch others in the street. Helps catch the perpetrators but not stop the crime.
Auotonated gates for buildings and public transport? Can work but mostly to catch offenders.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Sunday January 19 2020, @11:08PM
Careful with that line of argumentation, sounds a lot like "if it's not perfect, then it doesn't worth doing", which is dumb.
Better focus on "if we do something chasing an advantage, how close we get to our target and at what cost".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0