An "assault" knife..............From my hot greasy hands!........
Posted on 05/29/2008 4:47:15 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
The most common knife used in teenage stabbings is taken from the kitchen, Sir Ian Blair has said.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner unveiled some of the deadly weapons seized during a two-week blitz on knife-carrying criminals at New Scotland Yard.
Sir Ian revealed that the majority of those weapons discovered on the streets of the capital were ordinary domestic knives.
He said more than 4,000 operations have been undertaken by his officers using arch metal detectors and handheld scanners.
As a result, more than 200 people have been arrested and almost 200 weapons have been seized.
Speaking hours after this year's teenage death toll in London reached 15, Sir Ian said youth violence has reached an unacceptable level.
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He said: "The Met has stepped up its operations. With the support of the community, we have put search arches in place and in the last two weeks carried out more than 4,000 stop and search operations with more than 200 arrests and nearly 200 weapons seized.
"You are now more likely to be stopped and searched. If you are stopped and searched, you will be arrested if you are carrying a knife. If you are arrested you are likely to be prosecuted.
"To parents it is tough-love time. In addition to conversations about drink, drugs and relationships there are now conversations about knives.
200 knives have been seized by the police during Operation Blunt 2
"The most common knife involved in these deaths is a knife from the kitchen and we must have conversations about knife crime with teenagers."
In a report to the Metropolitan Police Authority today, Sir Ian said Operation Blunt, the name given to the anti-knife blitz, is targeting both where weapons are used and where those who use them live.
Sir Ian said officers have been deployed on 185 priority schools and colleges and each of the 59 units for excluded pupils across London. He revealed that the campaign will cost the Met up to £1million this year.
He said: "It is of critical importance that young people understand that carrying a knife is not cool and that choosing to carry a knife puts a young person at high risk of killing someone else, of being injured themselves and of going to prison.
"Ultimately, the aim is to encourage not only those whom young people respect and listen to to champion this approach, but also to find champions among young people themselves."
Operation Blunt is under way in every one of the 32 London boroughs, but extra resources are being sent to the 10 worst-hit areas including Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon.
Kit Malthouse, London deputy mayor responsible for crime, said he was "extremely pleased" with the police action.
He admitted increased stop-and-search operations could be controversial but he said officers had behaved "sensitively".
He said: "Some people out there oppose this type of operation but they come with no other type of solution.
"It is incumbent on us to recognise that every one of these knives recovered represents a tragedy averted and a life saved."
Kitchen knives are the most common weapons seized under the initiative
Mr Malthouse said that with every teenage death "a little bit of London dies too".
Cindy Butts, deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said Londoners must stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the police.
She said: "The black community supports Operation Blunt. What these communities want is increased stop and search.
"What they do not want is for police officers to go out on fishing expeditions where they cast their nets wide and see what they get back."
Ms Butts said the operation targeted places where knives were most likely to be carried and used. Officers deployed with metal detector arches and hand-held scanners targeted 10 London boroughs, including Southwark, Lambeth and Croydon.
She said: "It's important to emphasise that when the police get involved it is already too late."
Operation Blunt is under way in every one of the 32 London boroughs, but extra resources are being sent to the 10 worst-hit areas including Lambeth, Southwark and Croydon.
Kit Malthouse, London deputy mayor responsible for crime, said he was “extremely pleased” with the police action.
He admitted increased stop-and-search operations could be controversial but he said officers had behaved “sensitively”.
He said: “Some people out there oppose this type of operation but they come with no other type of solution.
“It is incumbent on us to recognise that every one of these knives recovered represents a tragedy averted and a life saved.”
Kitchen knives are the most common weapons seized under the initiative
Mr Malthouse said that with every teenage death “a little bit of London dies too”.
Cindy Butts, deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said Londoners must stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the police.
She said: “The black community supports Operation Blunt. What these communities want is increased stop and search.
I have three chain saws and two hedge trimmers, plus a weed eater. QUICK, SEND ME AWAY BEFORE I DO IT AGAIN!!
I eat my peas with honey.
I’ve done it all my life.
I know it may sound funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.
Even sadder is the realization that there are idiots in this country who (if you could get them to admit it) would love to see the same and more.
This nation won the Battle of Britian, how?
Serioiusly, you can't have guns, you can't have knives, but if you even think "gee, the Bible that has been the cornerstone of Western Culture for two thousand years says homosexuality is a sin" and you get locked up for committing thoughtcrime?
I thought it was the left who were supposed to be the sophists and idealists. Weapon control is the least desirable method of controlling violence out there as it takes away the basic tools people need to protect themselves and makes it easier for those who wish to commit violence to do so. If the aim is to stop violence, then go after the cause of violence. Look to the psychology and physiology involved, use training, parenting, coaching, mentoring and so on to achieve the goal. In extreme cases, using chemistry to change people might be what is called for. Going after the tools people use to commit violence is a losing battle as humans are limitless in their ability to devise them.
spitballs
An "assault" knife..............From my hot greasy hands!........
go after the cause of violence
DITTO
Next thing they will say we cannot have glass in our windows cause someone could break it and use it to hurt someone
The Bread-Knife Ballad
A little child was sitting Up on her mother’s knee
And down down her cheeks the bitter tears did flow.
And as I sadly listened I heard this tender plea,
‘Twas uttered in a voice so soft and low.
“Not guilty” said the Jury And the Judge said “Set her free,
But remember it must not occur again.
And next time you must listen to you little daughter’s plea,”
Then all the Court did join in this refrain.
Chorus:
“Please Mother don’t stab Father with the BREAD-KNIFE,
Remember ‘twas a gift when you were wed.
But if you must stab Father with the BREAD-KNIFE,
Please Mother use another for the BREAD.”
-— Robert Service
Now British civilization's creativity will be challenged to come up with other handy, pointy-ended objects which can butter toast and poke ruffians...
I hate to tell ya, but from where I sit, I'm not seeing that Britain won.
[Little feral child]: "We're ALL dead meat" /obscure
sheet rock is what we call it here in the Great Satan.
The problem lies not in the hands of the yobs, but in the hearts of the people.
They’ve rejected the concept of moral absolutes, because they are such enlightened, reasoned, educated people that they have no need for some set of behavior restrictions from some old superstition.
So, instead, the government has to step in and try to stop people from acting on their baser instincts by outlawing specific behaviors.
The less control a people have on their insides (morals), the more control is required on their outsides (gov’t/laws).
The Brits did not defeat the Nazis with these.
> sheet rock is what we call it here in the Great Satan.
(big grin!) Here in the Wannabe-Satan it is mostly called “Gib Board”.
The short handsaws that they use to cut the stuff are disposable and extremely sharp, and cost about $10 each (or free if you are a teenage scroat and feel like shoplifting them). A very nasty weapon that leaves a really ugly wound that takes forever to heal and easily becomes infected.
The thing about these weapons (kitchen knives, saws, &tc) is that they are readily available and have perfectly-legitimate uses. Completely “ban-proof” (as if banning could ever fix it).
How to fix? Dunno.
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