Confusing cause and effect

The BBC report that:

"New laws to crack down on knife crime could cause increased hostility among young people, the Children's Commissioner for England has said.

Sir Al Aynsley-Green called for more research into the effects of increased police powers."

Let's get this straight, the claim is that clamping down on youths carrying knives could increase hostility amongst youths. Odd, Although I suppose it is true that speed cameras do increase hostility amongst speeding drivers and internet monitoring of paedophile images probably does increase hostility amongst paedophiles.

This sort of woolly liberal thinking is typical of the thinking that has lead to prisoners serving less than half of any imposed custodial sentence, should a custodial sentence actually be imposed. It is the same type of thinking that has lead to prison no longer being a place of correction or punishment and instead being a place where prisoners have their own television and games console. It is the same type of thinking that has lead to society having to understand the criminal rather than sympathise with the victim. It is the same type of thinking that has lead to pensioners living in poverty whilst benefits scroungers have their every whim catered to. It is the same type of thinking that allows some members of a minority religious group to call for beheadings and not get punished whilst someone else can call another minority religious group a "cult" and be arrested. It is the same type of thinking that has lead to just one person in 17 caught carrying a knife being jailed, I wonder what percentage of people carry a knife and are never caught or are caught and let off with a police caution. I could go on and on but I am sure you get the picture and could add your own examples.


Knife crime is an epidemic in this country, in a three month period in 2007 a knife crime was (on average) committed every 24 minutes. The Daily Mail reported that:

"Figures from 37 police forces, published by the Mail on Sunday, showed there were 5,500 serious crimes involving knives in just three months this year.

The statistic equates to one every 24 minutes, around the clock, and includes 55 knife-related murders, more than 2,000 stabbings and almost 2,500 muggings at knifepoint."

The choice seems plain, either we clamp down on crime in this country or we will spiral very quickly into a pit of violent disorder. The problem is that the only crimes our Labour government and its politicised police force are interested in are traffic offences and "hate crimes" against minority groups.