Trump V Khan

[thesshhh]

Whose side are you on?

[mushroom25]

//Mush, I think Trump might have a weight advantage there. //

maybe - but if you've seen Johnny Saint wrestle, the small but nimble can run rings around the overweight. anyway, we digress.... :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

DANNY, the rate is per 100,000 of population so it is a valid comparison.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

Interesting to see those are Met Police reports, since I don't read them, I must have missed them.

Interesting to note however while the photos of the victims are there for al to see, there are none of the killers.

Except of course the last two who incidentally happen to be white.

[jno]

ah, trolling a thread by introducing race, aog?

[Zacs-Master]

Same old, same old.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON
/// The 2017 gun-related death figures compared America to the UK and theirs was forty times our rate. ///

You are forgetting that the excuse for our killings is because the killers come from 'deprived areas' that being the case they can't afford expensive guns and knives are much cheaper than guns.

[jackthehat]

Not Trump's.
He needs to get his own house in order before he rubbishes anyone elses.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// ah, trolling a thread by introducing race, aog? ///

Race is is at the forefront of this stabbing epidemic, since a huge proportion of them are Black on Black attacks.

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT, even without your checking, your assertion was clearly false. Why would you think that merely because YOU had not seen reports trials that no-one, not one single person had been charged?

Then you compound the error by saying that even if they were, we don't get to hear the outcome.

I don't go out my way to gen up on murders in London but it took longer to copy and paste those links than it did to find them.

[THECORBYLOON]

There have been thirty knife-related homicides in London so far. In the same period last year, the figure was forty-eight.

That means there has been a 27.5% reduction in knife-related fatalities.

[KARL]

Comparing oneself with Trump and the USA in these matters - how low.

[ToraToraTora]

on this subject, neither, Khan's a complete *** and considering the amount of killings in the US I'd say Trump's in a mighty glass house lobbing bricks. The basic problem is that we are in denial about Dodge city, we all know the cause, we all know how to deal with it but we are frozen to the spot by fear of being labelled with the R word.

[douglas9401]

When it comes down to a choice between an ineffectual dweeb and a lumbering ignoramus fuelled by lard it's dweeb, every time.

Of course I really don't care, the Illuminati have the last word so no point in getting exercised about it.

[jno]

what's ineffectual about Khan, douglas? Bear in mind that the powers of the London mayor are extremely limited; the government gives away as little as it can, and in this case he has almost none at all; same for his predecessors. His main power is over transport. Crime is Javid's problem, but I can't see that he's ever addressed it.

[andres]

If Khan hadn't given permission for that stupid,childish balloon effigy of Trump I don't think we would be having this discussion.

[THECORBYLOON]

Bearing in mind the comments made last year about London's and New York's homicides, this is from the BBC.

"New York Police Department statistics show its per capita murder rate was twice as high.

Month-by-month statistics can mislead because crimes don't occur at regular intervals - but this year's rate for New York is, so far, also double London's.

New York is by no means the US's most dangerous city - there are many others which have far higher murder rates."

[david small]

Trump.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Comparisons are odious. You can always find an example there which flatters the case her.

Is London becoming more violent, or not? And if so, what are the possible causes? The usual explanations refer to social factors like poor education, high unemployment, and feelings of "exclusion".

I'm happy to look at social factors. But maybe we're not looking at some of the most obvious. One is diversity. Another one is the high number of homes where the children do mnot have a father.

Obviously these last two are never discussed, are they?

[vetuste_ennemi]

...the case here.

[douglas9401]

Chris Rock said it best.