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More Smoke And Mirrors

Reading Time: 5 minutes Knife Crime. Who is to blame? Certainly anyone carrying or wielding a knife without a reasonable excuse or lawful authority is to blame. Government silliness might make you think that Teachers or the NHS are to blame for failing to report crimes or suspicions to the Police. What a load of cobblers. You can agree […]

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Your Country Needs You (Like Never Before)

Reading Time: 4 minutes There surely cannot be a person over the age of 14 or so who is still unaware of the seemingly uncontrollable epidemic of stabbings and Knife Crime sweeping the country. Not one person surely? In London alone there is a knife-related murder or serious stabbing almost every day. Only recently a young teenage kid was

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Stop and Search – Bored With It Now

Reading Time: 4 minutes The arguments re Stop and Search continue to rumble on, stoked by the opinions of a few ‘Adademics’ most recently. People continue to be stabbed and killed on the streets of our country, some VERY young children among them, but oh no we mustn’t conduct Stop and Search on these poor young things, it’s not

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Knife Crime Stop/Search – Some Facts Some Figures And Some Fictions Plus Anything Else I Can Think Of

Reading Time: 4 minutes Knife Crime is very much current and on the rise, both in the capital, London, and across the country generally.  For the purposes of this post I shall be relying on figures that relate to London, but I have no doubt that they will be mirrored elsewhere, just with smaller numbers.  In this context Knife

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Does The Home Secretary (Sorry Prime Minister) Have Blood On Her Hands?

Reading Time: 5 minutes The answer to this, I think, very much depends on your opinion of Stop and Search. It is controversial, undoubtedly, but is it legitimate? Is it effective? Is it necessary? Once upon a time, in 2014, Theresa May, as Home Secretary, instructed the Police Service of England and Wales to reduce their use of Stop

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Knife Crime – A Faux-Academic’s View

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

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Stop & Search – A (Not An) Academic’s Opinion

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

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Senior Met Police Officer Awarded Knighthood For Successfully Arresting Fewer People

Reading Time: 2 minutes Like many of you I noticed that Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey had been awarded a Knighthood in the New Years Honours List. Like a few of you I actually thought “what the **** did he get that for?” Now I know the answer. This morning I stumbled upon this Met Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey has been

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A Scoop For George Osborne – R.I.P. Stop And Search

Reading Time: 3 minutes Following Gideon’s appointment as Editor of the London Evening Standard I thought I would offer him a scoop.  Just to show him there are no hard feelings and to help him on his way to be a successful Editor. So, George, here it is. Stop and Search in England and Wales is moribund, it is

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