Labour Councillors have unveiled their Safer Streets pledge which includes the following five key promises: * We will crack down on anti-social behaviour, knife crime and dangerous dogs by closer working with the Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams. * We will use Westminster’s 100 wi-fi CCTV cameras to catch criminals, rather than fine motorists. * We will improve street-lighting and repair dan...
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LabourMatters on 19th Mar 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
The crime figures obtained from the Met Police are shocking. Black men are massively over-represented both as victims and perpetrators of street crime, knife crime, gun crime and robberies.
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Telegraph on 27th Jun 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Liberal Democrats have published plans to tackle the growing problem of knife crime in London. The document, entitled Less talk, more action, highlights several key proposals for reducing knife crime, including: Putting 10,000 extra police on the streets, around 2,000 of which would be in London, paid for by scrapping ID cards Ensuring each Safer Neighbourhood Team includes a trained, dedicate...
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LibDems on 18th Nov 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
Commenting on today’s British Crime Survey figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The Government has failed to roll out effectively the measures that we know work against knife crime." “Hospitals are not yet cooperating with the police in enough areas to highlight the hot spots for knife crime, and there is not enough intelligence-led searching in risk area...
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LibDems on 28th Jan 2009 (via libdems.org.uk)
Commenting on today’s British Crime Survey figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The Government has failed to roll out effectively the measures that we know work against knife crime." “Hospitals are not yet cooperating with the police in enough areas to highlight the hot spots for knife crime, and there is not enough intelligence-led searching in risk area...
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LibDems on 22nd Jan 2009 (via libdems.org.uk)
Jacqui Smith has decided that something really ought to be done about all this nasty knife crime that is making crime an issue she really would rather wasn't debated. Her main proposal is to have police take the scumbags who they find with knives to hospitals to witness the aftermath. Not too bad an idea… However, some
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BoatangAndDemetriou on 15th Jul 2008 (via boatangdemetriou.wordpress.com)
A £100m initiative to tackle knife crime in England and Wales was criticised by crime experts last night for its proposals to name and shame teenage criminals.
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TheHerald on 15th Jul 2008 (via theherald.co.uk)
JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill has announced all Scotland's police forces are to be kitted out with new-technology metal detectors to help tackle knife crime.
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Scotsman on 17th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Efforts to tackle knife crime are "clearly not working", senior Labour MP Keith Vaz warns.
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BBCPolitics on 17th Nov 2008 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Yesterday's News of the World included an ICM poll of under 25s about knife crime. Considering that the British Crime Survey doesn't include juvenile crime, and that while actual stabbing will very probably end up as recorded crime figures, people carrying knives, or waving knives about probably won't, it gives an interesting view of exactly
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UKPollingReport on 21st Jul 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
We seem to be in the middle of yet another media inspired bout of hysteria- this time over knife crime. I'm not saying there isn't a major problem here, merely that it's being blown out of proportion. Close attention to the figures published in May reveals that the British Crime Survey- based on a 40,000 strong group of respondents- shows knife crime as stable over the last decade at 7% of all cri...
