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| Britain |
| London's police failing to cope with soaring gun & knife violence |
| 2017-04-16 |
| [RT] The Metropolitan Police registered a significant spike in knife and gun offences, while detection rates are falling across every category of crime. An annual report published by Scotland Yard revealed a 42 percent increase in gun violence as well as a 24 percent rise in knife offences compared to the previous year. Violent & sexual crime on the rise in Britain, new scoring system shows In the 2016/2017 financial year, there were 12,074 knife crimes as well as 306 gun offences in London alone. A major contributing factor is an emerging gun and knife culture amongst young Britons, who reportedly think it’s “cool” to carry a weapon. The new statistics reveal the first major increase in crime rates in the UK for three decades. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Start profiling? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-16 15:27 |
| #3 ...same respect for the strong local gun laws? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-16 15:27 |
| #2 Mainly by migrants |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-04-16 12:45 |
| #1 They have a long way to catch up with Chicago. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-16 09:08 |