What's With All The Stabbings?

[Barsel]

Everyday I read the Manchester Evening News online, and everyday there has been at least one stabbing somewhere in the city.
Is it all drug related, and do you get a lot of stabbings in your part of the country?
There used to be a lot of it in London, but I haven't heard of as many recently.

[barry1010]

Yes, I know they can be very well hidden, emmie, but there are none in my area. We have been campaigning for them for years but more so since a murder three years ago. There is no money and no need, according to the authorities.

[Peter Pedant]

// 5 year prison sentence for everyone caught carrying a knife. Whether it would act as a deterrent, I don't know.//

nope but it wd fill the prisons with frightened teenagers who had carried knives because they were scared to go out
( carrying and stabbing are Very Different)

[Barsel]

PP isn't carrying a weapon called possession with intent?
Nobody should be carrying a weapon just in case they need to protect themselves.
If they are scared to go out, then they should stay in.

[emmie]

many of those killed have been school age, same as those doing the killings, how do you combat that.

[barry1010]

Yes, it is, Barsel, because knives can be carried legally in certain circumstances - tradesmen, fishermen and the like - but not down a trouser leg in the pub.

[Barsel]

Emmie, you are right, they seem to be getting younger and younger. Very worrying if you have children or grandchildren at this age.

[Peter Pedant]

// There have been 375 stabbings in Manchester between January and October, the figures show.//

yup - 1 - 1.25 a day

[Barsel]

PP from Barry's link.

'In the year ending March 2021, there were around 41,000 (selected) offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales (excluding Greater Manchester Police Force). This was 15% lower than in 2019/20 and 27% higher than in 2010/11. Recent trends in knife crime have been affected by undercounting in the Greater Manchester Police Force area prior to 2018/19. Increases in recorded offences since 2018/19 are directly related with improvements in recording practices.'

[ABSpareEditor]

This thread was removed by accident. I have activated it and moved it to the News category.

[Jackdaw33]

Some very informative answers here.

[douglas9401]

A rare consensus.

[ABSpareEditor]

Thanks for the reminder, Jackdaw33. I have reinstated the answers.

[Peter Pedant]

.PP isn't carrying a weapon called possession with intent?

No I dont think it is:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/offensive-weapons-knives-bladed-and-pointed-articles.

//because knives can be carried legally in certain circumstances - tradesmen, fishermen and the like - but not down a trouser leg in the pub.// very estricted - a butcher cant carry a machete under the car seat....

with intent appears to be firearms

[Googlewerenohelp]

We live in disgruntled times: covid, brexit, rising cost of living, people having to work their *** off just to scrape by. I see it on the roads too, people are getting resentful and driving more and more aggressively, lots of tailgating and cutting up. As I sip my coffee, I raise it and hope things get better.

[Googlewerenohelp]

...oh and unhappy parents produce unhappy kids, I think that's the bottom line of it.

[Bobbisox1]

A Tory MP has just been stopped earlier today

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tory-mp-sir-david-amess-stabbed-multiple-times-at-constituency-surgery-at-church/