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Yes you did. You only mentioned London and not the two areas in the country which are far worse. Suss / SaS laws are national, so no, it makes no sense to base it on London.

Well exactly. Glasgow seems to be statistically the most risky, on Today this morning on R4 they said the West Midlands now had the worst problem with "knife crime". Either way, neither is in London.

It’s a nationwide issue. Worst of all in the West Midlands. Pretty bad in Glasgow. Dealers have attacked people with knives in Portslade. I don’t think a London only solution works. Why are you only interested in young people’s lives in London ???

Bit airy fairy though, isn't it? You said "Stop and search those who the statistics based on perpetrators and victims are most likely to carry a knife." The demographics for that are different in different cities and different parts of cities. Additionally the age, gender and race of someone...

Currently: A police officer has powers to stop and search you if they have ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect you’re carrying: illegal drugs a weapon stolen property something which could be used to commit a crime, such as a crowbar...

That's the headline to the article you posted? Would have been useful to post that and the link, no? Nevertheless, it doesn't in any way, start 'blaming everyone else' does it?

So by 'the guardian editorial' you mean a past one that you remember in your head but can't link to, rather than one relating to the current tragic event. And by 'blaming everyone else' you mean setting out statistics on knife crime, talking about County Lines and pointing to evidence from...

The Editor of The Guardian is Katherine Viner and she rarely, if ever, writes opinion, being too busy editing. It does have an Opinion section, formerly known as Comment Is Free which is contributed to by a range of writers from the far left (Owen Jones) to the centre right. Here is a screen...

What a bizarrely obtuse post. If he doesn’t take a knife out with him he doesn’t kill her.

How? You’re not the police or the CPS. You’re not the accused lad’s solicitor. Only the perpetrator will ever know. Let’s make it an easier question. How, in your opinion, should we stop teenage boys carrying knives?

So how would you stop this from happening?

Absolute nonsense. If you want to stop young people stabbing other young people, as it seems most on this thread do, then there are approximately four ways of going about it. Firstly the 'tough on crime' way. More coppers and more on the beat, tougher sentences, stricter stop and search...

We can all wring our hands and say how terrible, or there can be some action. Action needs budget, law, strength and leadership, four things that are sadly missing from the current government. Life is political, like it or not.

Even in the toughest of times you have a choice regarding what you cut. Just ask the millions of families on the breadline today picking between heating, housing and eating with rampant inflation and a flat economy.

Again, if only these statistics were easily available online. Ah, well, here we go, murder rate since 1990 to 2023. Pretty variable across years and governments but overall trend down. And here's since 1901. Increasing constantly until this century. The first diagram is per 100k and the...

And where do you think they come from? The number of police officers in this country is basically unchanged since 2006. However, it started a steep decline in 2010 when the Tory led coalition came to power and continued to decline through the governments of austerity that followed. Numbers...