From Legal Insurrection:
British PM Theresa May Holds Summit to Address UK Knife Crime Epidemic
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called an emergency knife-crime summit to deal with the stabbing epidemic raging across the country. The announcement comes after 21 people were stabbed to death in London since the beginning of the year.
“We will only defeat the scourge of violence if we understand and address its complex root causes,” she said.
The UK police chief Sara Thornton called rising knife crime a “national emergency.” There were nearly 40,000 crimes involving knives in England and Wales between January and September 2018, the UK’s Office for National Statistics disclosed. The stabbing incidents were at the highest in a decade, since UK authorities started collecting relevant data.
May’s government is taking drastic measures to get law and order under control. The police have been granted an initial sum of £10 million to fund a “surge” of extra officers to combat knife crime across the UK, according to the newspaper reports.
No surprises there - just criminals being criminals and the mentally ill acting out their fantasies. Also, no word on the ethnicities of the perps but England has a lot of immigrants from Muslim nations. It would be interesting to see the racial breakdown - it is not racist if it is actual hard data.
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