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How soon before a stabbing and the victim is described as a promising polo player?
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How about having traditional families with married parents and discipline in schools?
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Will Charles be involved in this tremendous Idea ,Equine centers to open across ??
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The natives of Tower Hamlets would be more at home... riding a stinking Camel
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Nothing else has worked so why not give polo a try?
Apparently Glasgow has told Sadiq (Mayor) the key is to stop expelling kids from school because that hands them over to the gangs. Nothing about polo though. Glasgow has at least had some success in stemming gang violence. London schools must stop excluding children to help tackle the violent crime epidemic, experts said today. They also called for the closure of pupil referral units, which they said stigmatised children and were regarded as training grounds for gangs. It came after Mayor Sadiq Khan sent his violence reduction team to Scotland in the search for ideas. A “public health” approach to addressing the root causes of violence in Glasgow is credited with a 40 per cent reduction in homicides in Scotland in the past decade. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/glasgow-experts-tell-capital-to-stop-school-exclusions-and-shut-gang-training-ground-units-a4171951.html |
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I read it was Khan what was causing the violence.
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Think it was on twitter somewhere.
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i would have thought woundedknee would have said Appaloosa & not camel
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Sadiq Khan aint helping Chaka and Amir would do a better job:
According to the statistics released by the Metropolitan Police, between 2015/16 and 2018/19 robbery went up by 64.9 percent, knife crime by 54.6 percent and rape by 45.7 percent among a multitude of areas of crime in the capital. |
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bring back Bozo!
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How does polo work anyway? They all charge up one end of the pitch, then up the other. There doesn't seem to be any positions or tactics.
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And no goalkeepers.
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as we may be overrun with Iranian immigrants soon enough; polo might be a splendid idea, as that's where the game originated
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Surely it was invented by the 12th Earl of Tomfartery while entertaining the Prince Regent to a wondrous farrago of jolly japes?
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Team Boris up with Mark Field and get them to patrol the hotspots.
Be solved in a matter of weeks. |
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If the perps were all female.
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Must be a lot harder to play in the winter when they put the fences on the pitch.
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Mark didn't know what he was dealing with when he, putting his own safety to the one side, tackled the intruder.
Could have been a man in drag with a bazooka up his dress. Mark didn't care, he did his duty. |
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In 2015 Sadiq was against stop and search:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/sadiq-khan-i-d-do-everything-in-my-power-to-cut-stop-and-search-a2924706.html In London stop and search has fallen by 54 per cent since 2010, but the use of a more intelligence-led, targeted approach has led to thousands more arrests. Tooting MP Mr Khan, pictured, also pledged to strengthen rules that prevent officers stopping people simply on the basis of their skin colour, by changing the law to make it illegal. He said: “The last few years have shown what can be achieved when there’s a concerted effort to reduce the overuse of stop and search. “But there’s still much more to be done, and if I’m Mayor I’ll do all in my power to further cut its use. Overuse of stop and search can have a dramatic effect on communities. It undermines public confidence in our police if Londoners are being stopped and searched for no good reason.” Now he hasn't got a clue what to do so blames cuts right across the board at the same time as completely changing his tune about stop and search: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/mayors-office-policing-and-crime-mopac/our-priorities/tackling-serious-violent-crime The level of violent crime in London is clearly unacceptably high and Mayor Sadiq Khan is determined to lead from the front to tackle the problem - with a relentless focus on both arresting violent offenders and tackling root causes. Here’s what the Mayor is doing: Boosting police power The Mayor has funded a new dedicated Violent Crime Taskforce of nearly 300 police officers focusing on the areas worst affected and is providing £15 million annually to support its operation Since the VCTF was launched in April 2018 up until the end of May 2019, the command has carried out 8,452 weapons sweeps, recovered 910 knives, 651 offensive weapons, 299 firearms and arrested 4,937 suspects Between April 2018 up until the end of May 2019, wider activity across the MPS targeting violence has seen 47,527 weapon sweeps carried out, 3,230 knives recovered along with 1,501 offensive weapons and 769 firearms The Met Police has introduced patrols using targeted stop and search for areas worst-affected by knife crime. Preventing future violence A Violence Reduction Unit has been established. This brings the police together with specialists from health, local government, probation and community organisations to tackle violent crime and the underlying causes of violent crime. The Unit is learning from counterparts in Glasgow, where a public health approach was successfully implemented over several years and led to a fall in violence. The Mayor has created the £45 million Young Londoners Fund to provide young people with positive alternatives to crime and to help Londoners to get out of gangs and violence and into employment and training. The second round of applications for the Young Londoners Fund opens in May 2019 Our Stepping Stones programme, supporting at-risk young people in their transition from primary to secondary school, has been expanded to 15 schools, helping 2,100 vulnerable young Londoners The widely shared London Needs You Alive campaign, viewed over 4 million times, brings together role models and youth influencers to send a positive message to young people - that they shouldn’t put their lives at risk by carrying a knife. The campaign recently expanded to engage community groups, faith groups and schools with a new educational toolkit The Mayor’s granted £7 million to projects to combat youth violence across London and £250,000 to community groups and grassroots initiatives The Mayor is working to bring in more Safer Schools Officers to help to drive down knife crime in schools The Mayor is investing £1.4 million to continue to provide youth workers in Major Trauma Centres, and place more youth workers in hospital A&E departments, to help steer young Londoners who have been involved in knife crime away from violence in the future We are working with the MPS, Trading Standards and retailers to stop knives getting into the hands of underage Londoners. We are supporting and promoting the National Business Crime Centre’s Top Ten Tips for preventing the underage sale and theft of knives to all London retailers Knife wands are now available for every school in London to help keep young people safe, with 200 schools so far taking up the offer The Deputy Mayor held a Business Community Safety Summit in April, bringing together a wide range of businesses, security professionals and community representatives to explore good practice in relation to preventing and responding to serious incidents of violence within business premises and within that looked at how to support the principles for safe havens and safeguarding. The Summit will share good practice through the development of an online toolkit that can support businesses and havens to prepare for and reduce the risk of a serious incident of violence occurring, respond in the period immediately after an incident of serious violence occurs and support employees, customers and wider community to recover from such an incident in the longer-term Tackling gang violence The Mayor is investing £2 million in London Gang Exit services to support young people at risk of or engaged in serious violence and help them into employment, education or training City Hall works with the police, charities and councils on two programmes aimed at ending and preventing gang violence and exploitation, working with victims and young people at risk. Not sure Theresa May's 10% cuts can be offered as a reason for the embarrassing crime explosion when Mr Khan has done the above to absolutely NO AVAIL WHATSOEVER innit. |