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FREE KNIVES! “The knife surrender bin in Weston was broken into by a number of people.” Police in the British county of Somerset are investigating after a knife surrender bin in Weston was broken into and all the knives were stolen.
According to local Police Chief Jon Biggins, multiple people were responsible for breaking into the bin and stealing its contents around the middle of March, the Somerset County Gazette
reported.
“On the evening of March 13, the knife surrender bin in Weston was broken into by a number of people,” Biggins said. “The contents were recovered a short distance away, and the whole incident was caught on CCTV.”Police are still trying to identify the suspects.Police came implemented the knife-surrender campaign in response to a 52% spike in knife crime last year, a trend that has
plagued the U.K. in recent years.Across all of England and Wales, knife crime is up 22% from 2017, while gun related crimes have risen 11%. Perhaps more concerning, the murder rate in London specifically has risen 44%, according to
data released by local police.Some experts
blame British Prime Minister Theresa May’s 2014 policy to scale back “stop-and-search” tactics as a reason for the increase in crime.
http://u.mndtnk.com/Zy4SfJfrmG?utm_term=$publisher_name$_$section_name$&obOrigUrl=true Under the new rules, police are only allowed to search individuals if they have “reasonable grounds” to suspect someone is carrying a weapon or illegal drugs.As a result, police executed 303,845 stop-and-searches between 2016 and 2017, down 21% from the previous year.For some police departments, the solution has been to attempt to get people to voluntarily surrender weapons before they are used in a crime. Many experts, however, are skeptical of the efficacy of such voluntary surrender and weapon buyback programs.
