Sentences with phrase «about knife crime»

Concerns about knife crime getting worse in Gloucester have been raised on social media by a campaigner.

It was a challenging week for the Liberal Democrats, with their local election campaigning overshadowed by a row with the Conservatives about knife crime, and UKIP attracting the headlines.

Sadly, the debate about knife crime remains full of hand wringing about moral decay, and not enough focus on the social conditions which underpin it.

However, asked if the Met were overzealous, Johnson said: «If you talk to people who worry about knife crimes, if you talk to the families of victims of knife crime, I think people will broadly support the idea that if you go out on the streets of London carrying a knife then you have to face the fact you may very well be stopped and searched and you may very well face serious consequences.

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What will the government do about such a wave, especially any focus on knife crime it might take?

However, we need to send out a clear message about the seriousness of juvenile knife crime.»

Questions began with concerns being raised about the rate of knife crime in the UK, especially in London.

The former deputy assistant commissioner at the Met said: «Ken Livingstone has said he can not do anything about gun and knife crime.

«I would rather take criticism about that than have parents come to me in Catford, in Lewisham, when their children's lives have been utterly devastated by gangs and knife crime,» Ms Alexander added.

It's not that there has been a recent crime spree — this isn't about a rise in acid attacks or knife crime.

Revenge is all he can think about, but upon discovering that Eric (not a very nice guy to begin with) may have committed a crime, Ben finds himself trying to suppress the truth while simultaneously seeking it out.Across town and almost a month before the murder of Eric Sullivan, best friends Dagan Jefferson and Brendan Phillips come across a mysterious homemade knife while cleaning out the garage of...

The Telegraph article added: «Ms Osofsky said the SFO has been on a «knife - edge for years», with a chequered history of success in its prosecutions: «I'm not suggesting corruption is a «lesser» crime, and a healthy prosecuting arm needs to be kept, but a classic SFO prosecution is about individual scalps and even big brand names such as Rolls and Tesco, but the scale of money laundering is much bigger but largely unknown.»

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