“Make The Streets A HOSTILE Environment For Knife Carriers” Peter Bleksley On Knife Crime Epidemic

[@redpillmicky]

It's not about mobile phones, it's culture and gang violence also drug dealing

[@andreaconroy3623]

Peter Bleksley is 100% correct.

[@mrsteve170]

People are not being killed by people with swiss army knives. Dont punish law abiding citizens

[@theukeconomist6518]

We need stricter laws and punishment. I guess young people don't fear the consequences of their actions. Why doesn't Dubai have this knife crime problem?

[@darrenwilliams2921]

We do have strict laws against knife crime , the problem is they are never enforced .

[@stephenwaters7105]

The problem is, it's easier to go after someone for non-crime hate speech than for actual crimes.

[@callummcintyre713]

Aye, as a "non-crime" it means there's no need for evidence or a fair trial. They can just punish you. Shockingly, there are those who actually support this aswell.

[@juniormartin3528]

hate speech is a crime.

[@NPC--666]

Its not the knives, its the various 'cultures'. As always ignore the root causes and pretend its something else

[@juniormartin3528]

@nigelmcgiver2275what about the white on white gangbangin'?

[@JD-hx7yd]

The causes are way more intricate. Blaming it on just multiculturalism is ignorant.

[@NPC--666]

@@JD-hx7yd I didn't say 'just multi culturalism', but that is the biggest reason by far for the rapid rise - not just this in country, but across the West with the massive replacement that's going on

[@roberteasson3536]

Ethiopians and eitreans attacking police in camberwell this is what we've come to us

[@johnsmith-rs2vk]

IT 'S OUT OF CONTROL .

[@MissLondon.born.1965]

Khan is blaming this on phone theft.

[@Horizon344]

Stop importing the problem in the first place. - IMMIGRATION REFERENDUM required on population replacement.

[@paulewan8068]

Old school policing never goes out of fashion👍

[@pamelabriddon1233]

This man is a true copper it would his values are from a police force that was respected throughout the world A cop who investigated and educates the mass on the value of life

[@Lashes1978]

Never spoke a truer word.. someone with sense legalise and let the government regulate

[@Lashes1978]

@nigelmcgiver2275 I know you will never totally irradiate gangs but it legalising drugs will free up police resources and reduce the amount of people that come through the criminal justice system due to drug related offences.. the fact is the police can never win the war on drugs

[@battz99]

The connection between the UK's high crime rate and its failed penal system is being conveniently ignored but common sense tells us that if criminals go unpunished, as most do, criminal behaviour will continue to increase. So-called 'community' and other sentences not involving incarceration and even short prison sentences that are then halved 'for good behaviour' are not a form of punishment feared by either the habitual criminal or any person harbouring serious criminal intent and this goes for all forms of criminal behaviour. I have been suggesting for a long period of time that if knife crime is to be seriously tackled the penalty for going in public equipped with a knife must be sufficiently severe to act as a real deterrent. Therefore the law should be amended such that any individual found carrying any knife described as being potentially lethal in form should be summarily convicted of the crime of 'going with intent to murder' punishable by life imprisonment. This coupled with an effective stop and search regime would very soon result in the cleaning up of the cesspits of knife crime that the streets of our major cities have become. If it means that more prison spaces need to be created, so be it, but it's doubtful that many more would be needed once the policy is seen to be serious and always applied. However, if we continue to allow the left-wing bleeding hearts who have rendered our criminal and penal systems ineffective to prevail, nothing will change. This ex-police officer is totally out of touch with reality when he argues to legalise drugs. One only has to look at the states in the US where this has been done to see the downward trajectory that their societies have taken. Drug users suffer from one or more personality disorders and their drugs provide a crutch. Left to their own devices they descend to the point where they cannot fully function or provide a positive benefit to society - take Matthew Perry, an otherwise very intelligent man, as just one of many examples. The fact that drugs are illegal serves as a deterrent for a huge number of otherwise weak minded individuals to start on that slippery path. Legalisation would remove that deterrent and a great many more people would become drug addicts with a large number of multi-faceted ill effects for our society - health, financial, criminality etc and for that reason drugs should never be legalised. It is significant that, yet again, those societies in which drug use is severely punished do not suffer from the problems seen in the laxer developed countries of the West.

[@colinnewmarch1106]

This talking and hand ringing has been going on for decades, has anything improved No it's got worse

[@timothyoakhart8860]

Knife crime in London as far as I can tell has always been an issue. Your knife laws are a hot mess and often tend to punish the law abiding people who carry pocket knives more than the criminals who use kitchen knives to commit crime. I know we have some crap laws in the US but maybe banning certain blade shapes might help curb knife crime a bit.

[@stuartfitch7093]

Usually I totally agree with Peter but one thing which he said where legalising certain drugs won't work is that now our politicians want to ban smoking altogether. You would look really good banning cigarettes and pouch tobacco and vapes but at the same time legalising cannabis, coke etc. Before any one says anything, no I don't smoke or defending smoking. I'm just pointing out how inconsistent the policy would be.

[@Adept24]

While i agree with everything said, one of the other problems is the do-gooders who think that we should have soft justice abd put the criminals before the victims.

[@HereToHelp9134]

Are kids being killed in Amsterdam, Not seeing knife crime in Holland at all, Just show coffee shops work,

[@wadoryujujutsukempo6289]

What is the point of stop and search, carry a knife is 5 year sentance, but that turns into community service, so from the police point of view 'why bother', and from the person who has the knife, where is the threat

[@royjones4144]

Stop and search Black youths.. save Black lives. Simple.

[@pamelabriddon1233]

Diversity divides colour and the creed should not matter a person is a person and life should be the fundamental issue in any society in any society we should work for inclusion not diversity

[@BOOBOOWebster-pr3jg]

And put GOD back in our class rooms. Stop pandering to people who wanted to live here.

[@WotsisFace]

This is a slippery slope…. I’m just glad they don’t have enough officers to carry out mandatory searches on everyone 😄 you know they would if they could..

[@carltaylor6452]

They don't need to target everyone. They know which demographic is doing it and where they are doing it. It's only because virtue-signalling idiots like Khan think S&S is racist that so many black kids are needlessly killing each other.

[@seabreezedesigns.]

I guess home education will rise when parents decide it is just too dangerous to let their kids go out at all! Unemployment will also rise, cause It is just too dangerous to leave the house! It is going to get worse and probably will never get better! There is just way to much talk and no action!

[@bearsagainstevil]

The problem is not knives, in the 1960s most boys had knives boy scouts carried sheath knives, you could buy a shotgun or pump shotgun like buying a hammer you just had to be 21 no records no background checks, no mass shootings lower knife and gun crime. Crime is linked to mass migration look at who is doing the crime in London. That's is what changed a country where people could be legally armed and have much lower actual crime with those weapons, to one that we need to try the impossible task of stopping people from getting knives

[@clownose2831]

Blah,blah,blah, comoonitiy, comoonitiy! Liyyyek, takin to leaders in comoonitiy, don't know what we can do liyyyek! Gee, until the police stop and search the young black men as they used to it'll get much worse!😡

[@neiltomkins4713]

There is absolutely no chance of that as things stand at the moment.

[@benjobanjo7475]

People SHOULD be able to carry knives! Why does the UK love having it's freedom taken away. Imagine actually banning knives. You think killers and people stabbing care? All you're doing is stopping LAW ABIDING citizens from carrying one. Seriously, wise up.

[@malcolmmaciver7000]

Re Policing: would largely agree - we need to enforce the law of the land without preference, and police need to act without political favour. Re Drug policy: disagree: the softly softly approach has been done for 50 years - El Salvador has recently had success with a drug crackdown - I doubt we have the political will for that though.... WRT to Donna's points - we didnt have this degree of criminality a century ago (before the NHS, before the degree of 'wealth' we are used to today- where poverty was far more widespread), what went wrong in between? the break down of societal trust & the family has driven a lot of the issues at play - how do we fix this:- support the family & support society - very out of favour with our politicians

[@clivel3966]

I think Peter needs to educate himself on the current situation in the US, Canada, Peru etc re legalisation of drugs, to say it’s coming apart at the seams is putting it mildly.

[@SoSimonSays]

just like the silly pedestrian that walks into the road, we have our rules backwards, instead of punishing the moron who walking into the road we will just reduce all speed limits, instead of jailing the person who wants to take life by any means, you make bans on things normal people use on a daily basis, what if the new weapon of choice is spoons, are you gonna ban spoons?

[@alandee007]

Increase stop and search, put a decent prison sentence for carrying a knife, and build more prisons in readiness.

[@BOOBOOWebster-pr3jg]

Yeah but if they’re black it will straight away be a race issue, and they’ll become the victim!

[@darksideofthemoon1886]

as far as knife crime goes a new law if you are caught with a knife it should be an instant 5 year sentance unless the knife is brand new in the packaging with the recipt this will defo get some ppl to stop carrying

[@darksideofthemoon1886]

the weed industry in the uk is worth roughly 5 billion a year if the government legalised it would save some much police time and the money that could be made on taxing weed is crazy but our government are too narrow minded to use it to our advantage. take ansterdam as an example the main money made is from weed and its all taxed crime is very low and has been that way for more than 30 years wake up and smell the coffee even new york is weed legal why ? because of what i have just mentioned

[@jjboyd01]

Actually Saddiq is correct, Phones are stolen the most by far. This Cop showed his true colors saying Saddiq likes to shift blame. Its a good idea.

[@karenrogers9034]

Maybe these Kids feel the need to protect themself as Police are not doing any think so Police need to do there Jobs and not Soft;y Softly and maybe these kids will feel safe and not feel they need to carry

[@jamiesworld6015]

Awfull presenter box ticking

[@Drainingtheswamp2022]

Always an excuse