Knife crime

[sadoldgit]

Two more young people stabbed to death in London. 5 people slashed in Manchester. It is almost a daily occurrence. How do you combat it? Nobody should be carrying a knife. More stop and search and harsher penalties for carrying? Longer sentences for convicted stabbers? Where do you start?

[Ohio Saint]

Two more young people stabbed to death in London. 5 people slashed in Manchester. It is almost a daily occurrence. How do you combat it? Nobody should be carrying a knife. More stop and search and harsher penalties for carrying? Longer sentences for convicted stabbers? Where do you start?

 

Give guns to the good people?

[badgerx16]

Nutters / thugs will always find something to use as a weapon, and if you come down hard on a particular implement they will find something else. What needs to be addressed, if possible, are the reasons why peoiple feel the need to carry implements that might be used for violence.

[sadoldgit]

Nutters / thugs will always find something to use as a weapon, and if you come down hard on a particular implement they will find something else. What needs to be addressed, if possible, are the reasons why peoiple feel the need to carry implements that might be used for violence.

 

They will, but for a while it has all been about knives. It has long got to the stage now where kids feel it is the thing to do to prove themselves as tough guys. These aren’t ****ed up older men fighting at closing time. Kids are murdering other kids in broad daylight.

[Batman]

zero tolerance. much more Stop/search, harsh penalties, stricter prison time

better rehabilitation for those who want a way out.

[whelk]

Been discussed before. Cut all youth and other services, and the police and hey presto things get worse.

 

Levelling their mums houses might be a deterrent

[whelk]

Two more young people stabbed to death in London. 5 people slashed in Manchester. It is almost a daily occurrence. How do you combat it? Nobody should be carrying a knife. More stop and search and harsher penalties for carrying? Longer sentences for convicted stabbers? Where do you start?

 

Arndale attack is anything but a daily occurrence. If it was the US would be far more than 3 people taken to hospital.

[sadoldgit]

44,000 cases of recorded knife crimes in the last year, up by 7%. In the last financial year 1072 weapons have been taken off of children, including knives, swords, machetes, a gun and a meat cleaver. Happy days.

[Batman]

44,000 cases of recorded knife crimes in the last year, up by 7%. In the last financial year 1072 weapons have been taken off of children, including knives, swords, machetes, a gun and a meat cleaver. Happy days.

 

and this is just in Maidstone

[sadoldgit]

and this is just in Maidstone

 

I’m glad you find it funny.

[Weston Super Saint]

To be fair, if each and every one of the 44,000 recorded knife incidents in the last year were unique and not 'repeat offenders' it still equates to just 0.07% of the population commiting them.

 

I'm not saying that knife crime isn't bad, but it certainly looks like a very tiny majority of people are commiting it....