MERSEYSIDE and Lancashire are two of eight "hotspot" areas across the country where youths caught with knives will be confronted with stabbing victims in a bid to deter the carrying of weapons.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced a number of shock tactics that will be used in a bid to curb knife crime.
Tactics include visits to A&E wards where people are being treated for knife wounds, meetings with the families of stabbing victims, and prison visits to offenders jailed for knife offences.
COMMENT
Tell me if I am wrong here please. If you have just been viciously wounded, stabbed and are lucky to be alive, surely the last thing you would want to see when coming around in hospital is someone who has attempted to murder someone else through a knife crime. Gordon Brown is quick to "deceive" everyone that crime has fallen one third since 1997 but in the other breath he states that prison places for sentenced offenders has increased to 93,000 from 60,000 from the Conservatives in 1997, hardly a decrease in my opinion. Everyone knows that crime has rocketed and the "real crime figures" are doctored.
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Monday, 14 July 2008
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Police Vandalism Crime Spin
Police officers are being ordered not to record criminal damage as crime.
A leaked memo has revealed that rank-and-file officers in the Norfolk force have been told that incidents such as car vandalism should not be classed as an offence when there is "no idea how it happened".
The disclosure brought accusations last night that the force is trying to massage crime figures by ignoring acts of vandalism.
COMMENT
Hmmmm, I'm sure somewhere recently on this blog we have commented on this new police propaganda exercise or what terminology do they use "massaging the figures"
If all the windows at the local police station got smashed (heaven forbid), would this constitute a crime to these officials of the law?
The article comments on Norfolk police force but how many soundbite announcements have we had from Merseyside police about the massaging, sorry (silly me) the reduction of crime on Merseyside recently?...We had best get used to this new way of announcing crime figure news, but remember everyone everything may not always be what it seems.
To read article click on headline.
A leaked memo has revealed that rank-and-file officers in the Norfolk force have been told that incidents such as car vandalism should not be classed as an offence when there is "no idea how it happened".
The disclosure brought accusations last night that the force is trying to massage crime figures by ignoring acts of vandalism.
COMMENT
Hmmmm, I'm sure somewhere recently on this blog we have commented on this new police propaganda exercise or what terminology do they use "massaging the figures"
If all the windows at the local police station got smashed (heaven forbid), would this constitute a crime to these officials of the law?
The article comments on Norfolk police force but how many soundbite announcements have we had from Merseyside police about the massaging, sorry (silly me) the reduction of crime on Merseyside recently?...We had best get used to this new way of announcing crime figure news, but remember everyone everything may not always be what it seems.
To read article click on headline.
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