© Hollie Adams/Getty ImagesA sign at an anti-knives march in London in December organised by the Tashan Daniel Campaign. Daniel, 20, was fatally stabbed at a tube station in September.
The number of knife or offensive weapon offences receiving cautions or convictions in England and Wales has hit a 10-year-high.
In the year ending September 2019, the criminal justice system dealt with 22,286 knife and offensive weapon offences, a 3% increase on the previous year and the highest number since 2009 when 26,364 were recorded.The increase was driven by a rise in the number of cautions or convictions for offences involving possession of an article with a blade or point.
Offenders are now more likely to receive an immediate custodial sentence for a knife and offensive weapon offence, and sentences are getting longer, according to the Ministry of Justice data.
© Ministry of JusticeThere were 22,286 knife and offensive weapon offences in the 12 months to September - the most since 2009
Nearly four in 10 (38%) knife and offensive weapon offences resulted in an immediate custodial sentence last year, compared with 23% in the year ending September 2009. The average length of the custodial sentences has increased from six months to 8.1 months over the same period.
The figures cover the opening three months of Boris Johnson's tenure as prime minister. Johnson has placed "safer streets" at the heart of his political vision, but critics have dismissed his hardline approach to crime as populist.
© Ministry of JusticeKnife and offensive weapon offences resulting in an immediate jail term rose to 38% in the same period
Yvette Cooper MP, the chair of the home affairs select committee in the last parliament, said: "Knife and weapons offences are at the highest level since 2009 and yet the government has still not got a grip on this crisis that is devastating families and communities in towns and cities across the country.
"The home affairs committee has repeatedly warned that without significant investment in policing and youth services, the epidemic of violent crime will only get worse and there will be dire consequences for public safety. Early intervention and youth prevention must be prioritised to keep kids off the street and away from violence.
"There is an urgent need for proper leadership and a comprehensive strategy from the government to help the police and communities prevent this terrible violence that is destroying lives."
Barnardo's chief executive, Javed Khan, said: "Knife crime devastates families and communities, especially as victims and offenders are often children. We need to tackle the root causes and understand why those involved carry knives.
"Increasing the number and length of sentences can only be part of the solution, as this may not deter young people who are suffering a poverty of hope. Often they have no qualifications, no job prospects, and no role models, making them vulnerable to criminal gangs who force them to deliver drugs and carry knives to protect themselves. We need to reach them before they reach for a knife."
He added: "The new government urgently needs to work with charities, education, health, youth workers, the criminal justice system and local communities to find long-term solutions, so vulnerable children have a reason to turn away from crime."
Johnson has reportedly ordered all Whitehall departments to take action on tackling crime. He told ministers that every department should consider itself a criminal justice department as part of a drive to look at causes of crime that would involve long-term reforms to health and social care, youth services and education.
The justice minister, Chris Philp, said on Thursday: "This government is determined to turn the tide on knife crime. We are recruiting 20,000 more police officers, extending stop and search and making sure the most violent offenders spend longer behind bars. These figures should serve as a stark warning to those carrying knives: you are more likely to be jailed, and for longer, than at any point in the last decade."
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Savvy drug dealers, learning well from the police, already hold tazers now while they make their deals. And with today's British military in Helmand Province very obviously maintaining ever-increasing heroin production in continuation of the corrupt Queen Victoria's Opium Wars and drug addiction that was foisted on the Chinese that cost the lives of 13 million Chinese, exactly what role model can the young of today look up to?
All they see are highly professional gangsters in soldier's uniforms robbing oil fields, mass-murdering millions of totally innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere when the armed forces of Western coalition force nations should really be attacking Israel and Saudi Arabia for 9/11, and ousting the corrupt factions of infiltrated Israeli agents within their own Western governments who willfully go along with the Israeli program for world domination, particularly the vile 80% Friends of Israel mob, and I mean mob in the major UK political parties, when they know Israel threatens world destruction with the illegally-held Samson Option nuclear weapons stockpile, knowingly selling our entire people out to those terrorist thugs in Israel, and running heroin around the world, with armed police on the streets of the UK to back that corrupt system up, some knowingly.
As long as the attitude exists, almost object at all can then be weaponized if someone chooses to make it a weapon. The real problem is massively exacerbated by the chaotic deliberate mixing of totally incompatible races and cultures and religions causing a total societal breakdown, which is exactly what is chosen and intended to happen by the chosenites in charge. Rabbis have actually been recorded as having stated that this racial intermixing and the encouragement of miscegenation is 'revenge' by the Jews on the peoples of Europe, with all white people intended to be bred out of existence, (Jewish Harvard Professor Noel Ignatiev, erstwhile French PM Sarkozy), the process being essentially complete by missing of populations in just one generation, with the total mixing out of the white genome into non-existence by physical interbreeding, the white people being stated by the Jews as the being 'the greatest enemy of the Jews' is to be more or less totally completed within 3 generations time from now. Take it or leave it, that is what they say.
'We are all the same' already means to many people on the street that white people must exist no longer, and that is very sadly already acceptable to them, they have surely been deeply hypnotized into suicidal ways of thinking.
If it is really true that 'we are all the same', then why the need to interbreed? Several hundred million from Africa and the ME are presently officially scheduled for mass immigration into America and Europe by 2025, 150 million into Europe alone by 2025, the rest elsewhere, but NOT into Israel, where Jews have to pass a genetic test to prove they are Jews before gaining Israeli citizenship or being allowed to marry there. David Duke has all the information on his site all about those Israeli laws, that the Jewish-controlled media companies in Europe and America and the rest of the Jewish-controlled Western nations would rather you never even heard about, whilst they encourage your blonde-haired Caucasian Gentile daughter to marry a black African Negro man with an average IQ of 60, with 72 in Kenya being the highest average IQ of any nation in Africa. When all the resulting children are born racially mixed and dumbed-down, then the Jews have won.
Most of the knife crime in Western nations is committed by Negros, this is a statistic that is almost never covered. Deportation is the answer for them, with the death penalty for those who stab others to death in the pursuance of criminal gain or rape.
When I see mixed-race couples on th streets, nearly all of them of consist of an African origin Negro male, and a blonde-haired Caucasian woman, because that is the strategy they have actually been instructed to follow in the Jewish-controlled media propaganda, always a blonde worman and a black man, with pamphlets literally depicting that specific union being given out in Norway or Sweden.
This so-called democratic system is not valid, it is a complete deception and a complete fraud that should be exposed for what it actually is, then dismissed and replaced.
There is no real democracy, teams of highly specialized psychologist mind-programmers are instructed all the time by the real deep state government to devise programs through which to literally mass hypnotize and compel the fluoride and television dumbed-down public into acquiescing to and actually supporting any policy the real controllers desire.
Democracy in the UK is not actually meant to benefit the people, but to repress them in all ways, and in as harmful a manner as they can get away with without being sussed out and thrown out of the country (again), we are under an effective Jewish Israeli occupation government, and Jews literally hate the Gentiles, it says so in their scriptures, so what can we actually expect of a Jewish-controlled government obsessed by loyalty to Israel? Really? Have a good think about that.
See 'Jewish Talmudic Quotes - Facts Are Facts'
From Acharya S7-26-9
Why put fluoride in water still in some parts of the UK, or put fluoride in toothpaste, when fluoride is known to damage the brains of even unborn children, and is known to be a compound that causes more cancer than any other substance known, and to cause cancer faster than any other compound known? Toxic fluoride compound-coated Teflon non-stick cookware also contaminates us, and some forms of psychiatric medication given to many has a large amount of fluoride in it, around 50% in some cases, for very very obviously malevolent reasons. The swine who maintain that decision to keep fluoride in toothpaste for instance really are some dementedly malicious sick types who really ought to be put away somewhere to stop them harming anyone else.
Almost all that really needs to be done to preserve teeth is to discourage the use of white sugar in children's confectionary (better to ban toxic white sugar altogether and replace it with healthier alternatives like fruit juice concentrates or raw honey), or even naturally sweet cream or condensed milk-based confectionary.
Today's plastic democratic system permits only total chaos, a very deliberate chaos with a deliberately maintained fake excuse, that is purposely maintained to undermine and destroy our Gentile people.
I have actually met and spoken with a former government psychologist who spoke at the time how the Tony Blair government had employed him and many others for that very purpose, and not as some mere 'spin doctors', of how such programs are devised on a constant basis, to give the public the impression that they are actually having their own ideas and making their own decisions, it is just a very very nasty form of criminal dictatorship by the NWO Jews, whose religion states very clearly that Gentiles are eternally and irredeemably evil and eternally non-living, with Gentiles stated by the Jews to be forever unconnected and unconnectable to God, and that all Gentiles will be literally exterminated throughout the entire world by their god in his wrath, and then we Gentiles are all to be sent to hell at the end of this world says their Zohar terrorist program 'scripture'.
Read 'Why Is The US Honoring A Racist Rabbi?" by Alison Weir, Counterpunch.
So much for serving Israel and the Jews. The Talmud explicitly states that all Christians are to be killed for instance, their Noahide Laws state that when they are enforced all over the world under an intended future one world government to run by Jews alone, all Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs etc., as 'idolaters', will all be literally executed', with rabbis stating that NATO soldiers for instance of controlled nations will be used to bring that military dictatorship about and then enforce the terms of it. That alone should make people very seriously question why Israel simply has to be served, and why Jews simply have to be accepted.
But no matter what a few independent people who can still be bothered to actually think may say, Israel and the Jews are very sadly still always supported by the military and by the government, after these agents of deception continuously manage to trick their way into office, always on a raft of lies promising this and that, but never mentioning really important issues relating to true issues of national security or the true well-being of our people.
Something is totally out of control, and going very badly indeed for all of us, and fake 'democracy' is being used to maintain the illusion that we are all actually wishing for this state of affairs through having 'elected' this administration or that with their 80% MP friends of the deadly enemy Israel in the House of Commons.
The men and women of the British armed forces and police who still have integrity actually hold the real power with their weapons and should install a new government based on honest and actually kind principles that the people of this nation can really look up to.
A more spiritualized, non-religious means of teaching or inspiring a more compassionate and cooperative spiritual outlook in young people is the way forward.
Whilst we have weaponized malicious psyop religions foisted on even ourselves like Christianity, which says that Jesus has not come to bring peace, but to divide with sword, what does anyone expect to happen, people are sent mental by so-called religions like this. Jesus says he will set three against two and two against three in every family, that unless one hates their family members, they will not enter heaven, that he will cause one member of a family to literally cause the death of another member of their own family. They had to burn people alive or strangle them to death at the stake by garrotting in order to 'introduce' this psychotic fake religion throughout Europe and then elsewhere, it is pure poison, and totally demonic. Only someone criminally insane would support the idea of burning someone else alive unceasingly for all eternity and forever cutting them off from God after just one lifetime for not accepting the so-called 'love of Jesus'.
The Christian religion is designed by the Jews to make sure that any Christians themselves will actually be the ones who will remain cut off from the real God as long as they willfully turn a blind eye to their own terrible sin in accepting that horror as being for the common good, even hough they have been deceived into accepting that fake religion.
Christianity is a psy-op foisted on us by infiltrators from a very toxic place. And those who instigated Christianity in the UK have then compounded on that and brought even more chaos in, and by that act created a smokescreen covering their own nefarious activities even more, putting others more in the limelight to distract attention away from what they themselves are still doing.
The UK has had its own spiritual roots almost completely destroyed now, all by deliberate intention, because those who are behind it are very malevolent and want to destroy all genuine religions and replace them with purposely-created poison offshoots from their own religion like Islam and Christianity, both being totally insane pseudo-religions, before ultimately destroying all other religions except for their own Judaic religion and Noahide Law.
Under a better administration, with a far better ethos, one could teach about the universal flow of pranic life energy through all living things, and how all souls in all species of life are connected to an eternally indwelling and eternally all-surrounding communal higher self.
One could teach of the consciousness of the soul both before and after incarnation as an eternal living substance, that being consciousness itself, love itself, that inhabits all beings even in this world of duality, that is alive without any beginning even without any gross or subtle material body surrounding it, and that at some point, all the souls in this dimension will return to a higher dimension that passes right through this one, one that exists just beyond the purview of the conditioned material senses, that can once again gradually come to be experienced by the increasingly reawakened senses of the eternal spirit soul of each individual.
Such a genuine approach based on currently validatable experiences of spiritually aware individuals can be minus all the ridiculous threatening religious dogma and doctrine of any eternal hell or eternal separation from God and so on, minus all the pointless harsh material edicts of mundane religion that really have just about nothing to do with spiritual consciousness at all, with a spiritually revitalized approach being essentially based on the principle of being as kind and gentle as possible to all forms of life around us, with the understanding that the soul is love itself when properly reunited in a relationship with the cosmic higher self, and that we all come from a higher, cosmic, beginningless dimension of pure and perfect culture, where no violence can exist at all when each soul is consciously surrounded once again by the pure spiritual matter of the infinite communal higher self, because that substance is of an entirely different order in which violence cannot occur, permitting perfect personality and will to become manifest by all towards each other within and through that communal higher self throughout that infinite plane, which is pure consciousness, unending bliss and love.