Stabbing in McDonalds

The government really need to get a grip of the knife crime epidemic. I’ve never been shy to have a word with youths when they are misbehaving, not so sure I would in the current climate. Don’t fancy being stabbed and leaving a family behind - a stance which is only going to make the d***heads emboldened.
 
If you want to clampdown you have to get back to harsher policies. Sentences mean nothing. Stop n search is the way to actually pull people. If you don’t have one why worry.
 
Come on.... this has been going on for 20 years down south... it’s spread now as no one cares about the consequence. My preference would be nipping it in the bud before it gets to that stage. Stop n search would definitely have saved lives. 1 life saved means it’s worth it
 
3 problems
- sentencing is ridiculous. To many people not getting custodial sentence at all
- police stop search powers being taken away
- the value of life is falling
 
Cooper, our love affair with right wing politics started in the late 70s. It took a generation to see the predicted effects, as expected.

We're reaping the rewards of four decades of stupidity.
 
Knife carrying is pretty much an epidemic now amongst a particular section of the youth community. The majority of kids don’t carry a knife and don’t see others doing so but in more and more areas of higher deprivation it is becoming part of the culture and very much seen as being a necessity as the other young kid you meet on those streets is highly likely to be carrying a knife. Was never a real issue for us when it was just black London kids stabbing other black London kids but now it is closer to home the demands for action grow.
 
Not just areas of deprivation Huffman. Plenty on ingleby with both parents working are carrying blades. It is all society. To think otherwise is naive.
 
The rise in crime crime started when the stop & search legislation was changed, by the then Home Secretary, Teresa May - the government would have you believe that there isn't a link between the two, but the evidence I think is pretty compelling, as uncomfortable a truth as that is for the Tories.

The real driver behind it though is over ten years of failed austerity policies - in the future I think 'austerity' will be as widely debunked as Thatchers 'trickle down economics'.
 
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