Sunday 28 October 2007

Britain's blind side of knife crime

People have been telling MP's for years that things are getting worse - but they ignore them.
Political cowardice have made our streets empty of the old and disabled at certain hours of the day.
MP's will do nothing except increase their own wages, pensions and expense claims, and the mindless minority who now vote will carry on voting for them.
Voters, do something constructive. Write across your ballot papers that none of the mentioned are fit for Parliament. Make democracy work.
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk

A knife crime every 24 minutes


The terrifying scale of knife crime in Britain is laid bare today in unpublished figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday.


An exclusive study of statistics from 37 police forces reveals that, in just three months of this year, almost 5,500 serious crimes involving knives were committed - or one every 24 minutes, around the clock.

Inevitably the areas worst affected are the major cities of London, Manchester and Birmingham, while other urban forces, including West Yorkshire, Merseyside and Northumbria, are also included in a knife-crime "top ten".


Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "These shocking figures betray the desperate state of violent crime under this Government.

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