Ameliorating Knife Crime

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.
 
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.
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That’s a chilling line originally used by Prince Andrew 🤢🤮
 
In the U.K., 25% of attacks are with kitchen knives. They’re easier to acquire for youths, who are the main culprit and they’re very cheap.

Really? Balisong? Yes, pocket knives but I think zombie knife sales are being heavily clamped down upon due to their adverse publicity and rightly so.

You’d better watch this-
Do you have a good reason to carry it in public, or an excuse?
Whether I have a good reason or not doesn't really matter. They can't stop me and search me. Also, knife crime is indicative of a larger societal problem in this country. Banning knives or blunting their edges won't really help all that much; bad people will always find a way to do bad things. If it isn't knife crime, it will be people in rental cars ploughing into crowds of people, just like at the German Christmas Market in 2024. We should be focused on figuring out what is causing people to do such acts, rather than attempting to take away the tools to do so. If you take away the tools instead of actually figuring out the problem, violence will become more repressed, only for it to be expressed and lashed out with in much worse way later down the line.
 
Whether I have a good reason or not doesn't really matter. They can't stop me and search me.
Do you live in the U.K.? Did you watch the video…by a British barrister? Have you heard of police stop and search?
Also, knife crime is indicative of a larger societal problem in this country. Banning knives or blunting their edges won't really help all that much; bad people will always find a way to do bad things. If it isn't knife crime, it will be people in rental cars ploughing into crowds of people, just like at the German Christmas Market in 2024. We should be focused on figuring out what is causing people to do such acts, rather than attempting to take away the tools to do so.
Which of those two things do you think is the easiest to accomplish and cheapest for a government in a single four year term?

I’m sure there’s no secret as to the issues; low self-esteem pushing them toward macho attitudes perpetuated by certain life styles/music genres, poor education resulting in young men who have impoverished critical thinking skills and thus the inability to understand the consequences of their actions and also narrowed job prospects, totally inappropriate role models, absent/poor parents, poverty which makes those oh-so-desirable material things out of their reach without resorting to crime… These are inconspicuous, difficult, very long term issues with which to deal.

Removing the tips from knives? Cheap, easy, immediate and high profile.
If you take away the tools instead of actually figuring out the problem, violence will become more repressed, only for it to be expressed and lashed out with in much worse way later down the line.
Yes, I agree with your hinted-at idea of going into schools, identifying loners and generally funny-looking children and mincing them down into dog food or fuel for power stations. It will prevent many knife crimes 😐
 
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