Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Deaths up during anti-knife drive [More]
Bloody twits.

[Via Mama Liberty]
Posted by David Codrea at 7/22/2009 11:29:00 AM

2 comments:

Adam said...

So the Home Secretary says "The fact that a stabbing leads to the tragedy of a death is nothing to do with the perpetrator of the stabbing, its to do with how quickly the health service got to them, etc." See it's not the perpetrators fault. I guess the problem is we need higher taxes to pay for better emergency response services.

Maybe they're missing something. Professor Marian Fitzgerald, a criminologist at Kent University, said the government was putting too much emphasis on knife carrying instead of knife crime.
She said: "They have thrown a lot at very visible police enforcement, lots of stop and search, most of which yields nothing."

Two things jump out: Very visible police presence accomplishing nothing - Security Theater; Hassling and incarcerating people carrying knives and doing little to stop actual violent knife crime - more anthropomorphizing an inanimate object rather than assigning the blame where it belongs, which is with the criminals.

7/22/2009 5:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Just as you cannot carry a police officer with you, you cannot carry a paramedic or EMT with you.

7/23/2009 12:21 AM

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