Post by JoeOn Fri, 3 May 2024 16:26:33 +0100
Post by PanchoPost by JNugentPost by PanchoPost by JNugent...it's all just part and parcel of living in a big city.
Who was it who said that?
And has he still got the gall to stand for election?
What is your point?
London does have a history of terrorist attacks. The IRA
operations were more frequent and disruptive. The current stuff is
much less significant.
Are you really trying to say he was right in effectively telling
people to just suck it up?
Yes. That is what we have always done.
What is your alternative?
He could allow the Met to go back to previous levels of stop and
search. There seems to be no other way to discourage the carrying of
knives.
You appear to be confusing two issue. Khan's remarks were about
terrorism, not general knife crime.
The problem with stop and search was that half of young people take
illegal drugs. If you use stop and search to criminalise otherwise
law-abiding drug takers, you alienate a huge section of the population.
The obvious solution would be to only search for knives, ignore drugs.
That might even win local community support, who would see the benefit.
Unfortunately, the Met has traditionally been staffed with dogmatic
rather than pragmatic officers.