Saturday, August 19, 2006
More local knife crime
The local "news"paper reports here on yet another knife crime.
It seems that since the end of the "successful" amnesty, there has been about one crime a week (locally) involving a knife. Quite how bad it would have been without an amnesty I don't know, but seeing as these crimes seem to have increased, I can only conclude it wouldn't have been any worse.
I wonder (not really) if the problem is that the police, now having colleted all these knives, and possibly having a disposal problem are perhaps offering them free with each arrest. "Get arested this week and walk home with a free knife." Type of offer.
Somehow though this number of incidents of knife crime both before (hardly any) and after (most of them) the knife amnesty has so far escaped our local "reporters". Don't expect a story anytime soon, unless they start reading this blog.
It seems that since the end of the "successful" amnesty, there has been about one crime a week (locally) involving a knife. Quite how bad it would have been without an amnesty I don't know, but seeing as these crimes seem to have increased, I can only conclude it wouldn't have been any worse.
I wonder (not really) if the problem is that the police, now having colleted all these knives, and possibly having a disposal problem are perhaps offering them free with each arrest. "Get arested this week and walk home with a free knife." Type of offer.
Somehow though this number of incidents of knife crime both before (hardly any) and after (most of them) the knife amnesty has so far escaped our local "reporters". Don't expect a story anytime soon, unless they start reading this blog.
Tags: knife amnesty, knife crime
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