Increase in killings

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/22/knife -crime-deaths-rise

David Hanson, a home office minister, defended the plan and said 'The rise had come about after a spike in murders last August which explained the rise'.

Oh! so that's why it's risen, don't you just love it when our politicians quote the obvious?

The campaign included the extensive use of knife arches and wands at pubs, train, tube and bus stations, after-school police patrols and stop-and-search campaigns. More than 250,000 searches yielded 5,469 knives and other weapons.

What the report does not tell us is what punishment, if any was handed out to the carriers of these 5,469 weapons?

[buildersmate]

There's little point in providing you answers 'cos you're clearly not even interested in responding to them. Too busy trying to think up more questions, I suppose.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question78 4832.html

[blackietwo]

Knife crime destroys families. tough sentences is all that may help reduce it. its pathetic what they get away with. prob just took them off them with a little telling off.

[anotheoldgit]

Oh dear did dums, did I not give you the courtesy of answering you personally buildersmate?

One, I could find nothing constructive in your post that deserved an answer.

Secondly, does ever person on this site answer each and everyone personally who posts an answer?

Don't post if you automatically expect an answer, it's as simple as that.

[Haggisdj]

David Hanson could have used a more appropriate word than spike methinks...

[BOBBYPERU]

How can we punish the carriers when the vast majority of them are black, We wouldn't want to be branded racist now, would we?