Sentences with phrase «say knife crime»
«People say knife crime is more important.
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Mr Lawrence, who speaks to young people to spell out the dire consequences of carrying a weapon, said: «Right now with the violence, and the knife crime violence, it is even more urgent now that I talk to these youngsters and explain to them the pain and the suffering they inflict on families.
Assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police Martin Hewitt said: «My position would be that stop and search is an absolutely crucial tactic in dealing with particularly something like knife crime.
Blog: Why we need a holistic response to fatherlessness Jeremy Davies writes: David Lammy says absent fathers are a key cause of knife crime.
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.
A Labour minister — a high ranking official of the same party who only a few months ago, over ruled the ONS to release a work of fiction regarding knife crime — is implying that the ONS is politically motivated in its releases is rich to say the least!
But he said he believed that stop and search powers had contributed to a successful reduction in knife crime in the capital, which has dropped 13 % in the last year.
He thinks those who disagree that assessment are living on another planet, citing gun and knife crime, alcohol - related crime and the «angry harsh culture of incivility» which he says have disappeared within a generation.
Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry
We need a long - term, multi-agency approach to knife crime which seeks to understand and prevent its underlying causes, says Sarah Jones
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan welcomed the move, saying a «clear message» had to be sent to those under 18 that knife crime «is unacceptable and will be punished».
The former deputy assistant commissioner at the Met said: «Ken Livingstone has said he can not do anything about gun and knife crime.
The statistics - which showed improvement on knife crime - came under intense scrutiny after Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK Statistics Authority, said they were «selective».
The BBC asked Martin Surl, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner, for a response and he said he felt Mr Ellis's action of showing off the knife was «unhelpful».
The mayoral candidate said he believed the spike in knife crime and the restrictions imposed on police to stop and search are linked.
doug jonson Hatlem, well after having he worse tory PM ever, and people not anting austerity anymore, and her humiliation on knife crime doubling despite saying it wouldn't when she cut police, or terrorism increase, when she cut community police or calling out the police federation they were crying wolf, saying her cuts would lead to having to have the Army on the streets, rather than cops, then it happened, we still didn't win and it was the second election defeat, on the trot a labour leader who denounced New labour has caused us
Chief Constable Alf Hitchcock, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for knife crime, said: «Carrying a weapon of any kind in schools is not an issue for a school to deal with alone; police and partners will always be willing to work with them and take appropriate action.»
Every school should have a mandatory plan in place to stop knife crime, The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has said.
Sheridan said Ofsted was «determined» to support schools and colleges in protecting children from knife crime, and helping them make positive lifestyle choices.
He said one of the ways to tackle the issue was to encourage Ofsted to look into whether school were doing «all they can to keep people safe in particular in relation to knife crime».
According to the Evening Standard, Khan described knife crime in the capital as an «epidemic», and said schools were afraid to tackle the problem in case it damaged their reputations.
We need a long - term, multi-agency approach to knife crime which seeks to understand and prevent its underlying causes, says Sarah Jones
Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry
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.»
In her dissent, Sotomayor said that Hughes «was nowhere near the officers, had committed no illegal act, was suspected of no crime, and did not raise the knife in the direction of [her roommate] or anyone else.