links for 2008-06-01

• Support our Jail Knife Thugs campaign – Sunday Sun
  We want the law toughened up so that anyone caught carrying a bladed weapon without lawful excuse receives an automatic prison sentence.
• OXY MORAN: London violence worse than Detroit claims UK trauma surgeon
  Hard to believe that any city in the world could ever compare to Detroit for violence, but thats exactly what London’s home town newspaper is reporting.
• Knife crime starts at home – icWales
  In a poll of Cardiff youngsters, conducted by the council-funded Voice Project, 69% said fighting, carrying weapons and violence in their area needed to be addressed.
• Pathetic posturing won’t stop knife crime | Mail Online
  And what of the Government? Its pathetic solution to this crisis is to launch an anti-knife advertising campaign on the internet…
• Stop and search: the hunt for Britain’s knives – Crime, UK – The Independent
  Last Friday afternoon, members of Hammersmith and Fulham’s robbery squad were out patrolling. Searching for stolen phones; searching for drugs – but especially for knives.