https://news.npcc.police.uk/editorial/operation-sceptre-early-intervention-education-and-enforcement
Blogger: when will the liberal classes stop using peripheral measures to combat crime and stop pretending that these measures do work or can possibly work?
I have seen the blurb spouted in favour of Operation Sceptre being used to bring and end to knife crime. Were it not all so tragic - I would burst out laughing. I have seen the police officers on TV spouting the official line and attempting to sound enthusiastic - but manifestly failing to do so.
You cannot be nice to perpetrators and then pretend that they are being educated to shun 'the knife culture' on our city streets.
Only if the education strikes horror and instils genuine fear into would-be perpetrators is there any possibility of this working on any other than the most minor of scales.
Those who even carry knives must expect the severest of outcomes.
We have totally expunged FEAR as a consequence of one's personal conduct.
All those years ago, my Dad pointed out that those birched simply did not reoffend. In the 70s, I checked the figures - he wasn't 100% correct but was pretty close.
Similar tactics work superbly in Malaysia and Singapore.
But, you know - that's 'not nice; barbaric, indeed!'
Question: why is a dose of pain aka (barbarism') considered worse than the knife crime which causes injury and death? - Why are our attitudes to punishment so out of kilter with reality. Where is the proportionality?
Birch every person carrying an offensive weapon; a mandatory sentence - no appeals for one test year and then let us examine the number of deaths and serious injuries caused by stabbing. Make an honest comparison with current trends.
If it hasn't worked to a substantial degree - then, and only then - abandon the alleged barbarism.
BUT if it has worked - what a vital social lesson we will have learned.
