Tories tell police to ramp up ‘stop and search’ as knife crime tsar warns weapons are being sold to teens on TikTok

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1. Oh yay another fruitless debate about stop and search coming in where people are going to try and gaslight others into thinking that literally confiscating knives from people in the street won’t stop said people from using said knife (which they don’t have anymore) to go stabby stab.

2. If they think having a knife saves them getting robbed or worse, they mostly aren’t going to be bothered by the risk of being frisked by the rozzers, innit.

3. Stop and searches are always based on a police officer’s judgment, and they are usually based on colour and race. Bigoted behaviour will lead to civil unrest and anti police messages

4. I wonder if they had a meeting to discuss how they can shoehorn TikTok into the knife crime issue.

5. America has the correct policy on TikTok – it’s owned by a hostile state to undermine social cohesion.

6. > Responding to a call from a black police officer who is in favour of the tactic, he said that stop and search had “been falling over the last two or three years”, with some of that down to “officer confidence”.

   > He added that his officers “fear complaints and the investigation they get and whether they feel supported behind it”.

   Yeah pretty much. There’s a reason I don’t do stop and searches anymore and that goes for the majority of other officers I know. The commissioner and politicians can talk about how we should have confidence in our powers and use them more, but the second you go viral on social media and the media decide you’re a racist, they vanish. And then you’re on your own for the years it takes for it all to get litigated.

   I get paid whether I search people or not. Stop and search is dead.

7. stop and search is not an effective tool unless there is suspicion. It just creates anger among communities and those who are doing no wrong.

8. They are being sold to teens on normal ecommerce sites too. Kinda. I bought a mora recently and the only verification was that the delivery guy was supposed to only give the package to someone over 18. So he handed it to a 15 year old and just shrugged.

9. Why do they need to be sold weapons on TikTok when the vast majority of the time they’ll just take a kitchen knife.

10. Stop and search went down under khan. Knife crime went up.

    This is why people blame him as he applies pressure to get it low as possible as it will be targeted against his voter base (black people)

11. If a shop consistently allows the illegal sale of good then it will be prosecuted and shut down….