Ameliorating Knife Crime

[Dirty Dog]

I really don't see how this would help. I highly doubt that knife crime tends to be committed with kitchen knives. It is extremely easy to acquire Balisongs, Zombie knives, pocket knives, in the UK. I own a Lansky World legal knife, a pocket knife designed to be legal to own and carry in as many countries as possible (including the UK).

I've treated way more kitchen knife stabbings than anything else.

 

[Gyakuto]

Do they just go about collaring innocent looking people and make them turn out their pockets?

There is a ‘stop and search’ policy, but the police have to have ‘reasonable suspicion’ and the statistics showed that black youths were being differentially targeted, so it fell out of favour. However it seems to be coming back now.

If one was wearing paint spattered workwear and you had a screwdriver/work knife sticking out of the top of your thigh pocket the rozzers would likely ignore you. If, on the other hand, you were wearing a baseball cap backwards, wearing urban sportswear, holding street gang hand signs and contorting you face in that certain way then you’d likely be stopped if the same equipment was on your person.

I’m angelic in affect, and possess morals as pure as the driven snow.

That’s a chilling line originally used by Prince Andrew