Reading Time: 3 minutes I confess, I have never been an ‘academic’, I left school with two A Levels and a Jamboree Bag. In truth, I’m never likely to be an academic either. I have had three jobs since leaving school, and every one of them involved being a practitioner of one kind or another. I’m not intimidated by […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am not an academic, never been one and hardly likely to become one now. I have, however, considerable experience in Research and Analysis. In the past few days I have been involved in a, sometimes, acrimonious exchange on Twitter with an ex Think Tank academic, on the thorny subject of Stop and Search. It
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Police have lost control of the streets. There, I’ve said it. Not everywhere, of course, but cities mainly, London definitely, but it could apply literally anywhere. It has been obvious for a while now but the government have just sat quietly and said nothing. Only that isn’t quite true is it? The government have
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy New Year. There’s a rather chilling post title for you. Not my figures, for once I am relying on our infallible news media. Apparently, in London, in 2017, there were 80 fatalities due to stabbings etc. Again, according to our news friends, this is an increase from 50 in 2016. Unlike the BBC news
Reading Time: 3 minutes As promised (threatened) here is the almost final update on the scale of Knife Crime in England and Wales last year. I am still arguing with the City of London Police and Avon & Somerset Constabulary over their Refusal Notices, if I ever get final figures from them I’ll update this post. The figure for
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ladies and Gentlemen, unaccustomed as I am to grovelling, please bear with me just this once. You may, or may not, know that I have taken a keen interest in the Knife Angel project (or National Monument Against Violence And Aggression) Briefly, this is a 25 foot statue of an Angel made from knives supplied
Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it just me, or has there been an absolute explosion of knife crime, particularly in London, over the past 18 months? Our best response to the problem? Cut back on Stop and Search. Theresa May started it, Amber Rudd has dutifully continued it. Apparently we should not be doing so much Stop and Search.
Reading Time: < 1 minute As promised I obtained the stats from the Metropolitan Police about the slightly older Afro Caribbean population together with those for the Asian population. In addition to the 166 young, black males that were affected by knife crime in my original post it is now apparent that many more between the ages of 20 and
Reading Time: 2 minutes I don’t know about you but I was getting quite depressed hearing all the stories in the media about stabbings in Greater London, so I asked the Met two simple questions, which they answered (that was a surprise); 1. How many black males under the age of 20 have been killed or injured by knife
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is Sparta. If only, but it is about numbers, so if you don’t like numbers you’d best leave now. Firstly, the 300, but actually it’s closer to 500. Gideon’s announcement said that the government would now protect the Police, a complete U Turn, brought about, in no small way I’m sure, by his and
