London’s Murder Rate Surpasses NYC

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Saw this story on The Daily Wire:

Both cities have roughly the same population; in the month of February, 15 people were murdered in London, whereas NYC recorded 14 homicide deaths, reports The London Times.

London is set to outpace NYC’s murder rate for March as well. “By late last night there had been 22 killings in the capital, according to the Metropolitan police, against 21 in the US city,” notes the Times. Eight of those murdered in March happened in a span of just seven days.

Since 2014, excluding victims of terrorism, the number of London murders has risen by a stunning 38%.

It’s stunning, that London has suddenly become such a violent city. If only there where a technology, that a citizen could carry for self-protection, that would keep a knife-wielding attacker at bay…

Old joke, You know what the medical term is for someone who attempts armed robbery with a knife in the United States?

Gunshot victim.

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  1. Zafar Member
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    7:19 AM EDT ⋅ Apr 5, 2018

    Stephen Bishop (View Comment):

    Jason Turner (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Crime is going up and the Tories are cutting back on police under Teresa May and Amber Rudd who have been Home Dept. Secretaries since the Tories took over in 2010. Both are disasters.

    That may be true but having Sadiq Khan as mayor is far worse.

    Sadiq Khan runs the police force not Theresa May.

    Sadiq Khan runs the metropolitan police

    But guess who pays for it. 

    “The Met’s budget for 2017-18 is £3.269 billion. 70 per cent of that is provided by the Home Office – but no extra funding has been provided for the cost of the recent terrorist attacks.”

    An example of the dysfunction resulting from on branch of Govt paying for something another branch is responsible for delivering.  Especially when they’re run by different political parties. 

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  2. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    5:55 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 6, 2018

    Edouard Maurice exited the courthouse with his toddler daughter in his arms, wife and defence lawyer at his side and more than 100 people applauding him. That’s not your ordinary reception for a man charged with aggravated assault, reckless use of a firearm and another gun charge. But these are charged times on the Prairies.

    On Feb. 25, two weeks after Gerald Stanley was acquitted of murder in the shooting death of Colten Boushie on his Saskatchewan farm, gunfire rang out on Maurice’s property just outside of the town of Okotoks, Alta., in response to alleged trespassers rummaging through a Maurice family vehicle just before Saturday dawn. One man fled; another was found with a gunshot wound to the arm.

    His case was adjourned for a month; Maurice hasn’t yet entered a plea. To the hundreds of men and women who lined the sidewalk and street outside the courthouse, the 33-year-old welder is an innocent man dragged into a legal mess for defending his home and family.

    http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/alberta-farm-shooting-is-a-new-touchstone-for-rural-gun-owners/

    The problem with this defence, is that the thief posed no obvious threat to life and limb – so the shooting (even just wounding) may lead to a conviction.

     

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  3. Henry Castaigne Member
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    10:51 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 6, 2018

    Zafar (View Comment):

    Stephen Bishop (View Comment):

    Jason Turner (View Comment):

    Hang On (View Comment):

    Crime is going up and the Tories are cutting back on police under Teresa May and Amber Rudd who have been Home Dept. Secretaries since the Tories took over in 2010. Both are disasters.

    That may be true but having Sadiq Khan as mayor is far worse.

    Sadiq Khan runs the police force not Theresa May.

    Sadiq Khan runs the metropolitan police

    But guess who pays for it.

    “The Met’s budget for 2017-18 is £3.269 billion. 70 per cent of that is provided by the Home Office – but no extra funding has been provided for the cost of the recent terrorist attacks.”

    An example of the dysfunction resulting from on branch of Govt paying for something another branch is responsible for delivering. Especially when they’re run by different political parties.

    I always think you miss the forest for the trees because you are a lefty but you always bring up stuff that other Ricochetti miss and I appreciate that. The more ways to look at things the better. 

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  4. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    8:57 PM EDT ⋅ Apr 10, 2018

     

    Brilliant.

    Its shocking to me, that they’re actually discussing knife control in the UK. Then it’ll be axes and chainsaws – because there are no lumberjacks in the uk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaRd4d8hOY

     

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