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Originally Posted by Derek
So we should abolish the Police entirely then?
Perhaps the drop in available Police to conduct stop and search operations and patrol hot spots for gang activity might have an effect on the number of people who think carrying and using weapons is an acceptable chance to take seeing they are unlikely to be challenged over it.
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Again, even 10 times the number of Police would make no difference. That are simply NOT ALLOWED to stop them in the first place.
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The Metropolitan Police accounted for 17 per cent of the knife crime rise. Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has clashed with Theresa May, the Home Secretary, over restrictions on stop-and-search powers, which he has said makes it more difficult for officers to identify and arrest people who carry blades.
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If the number of Police made that much of a difference in preventing crime then there would be copious examples of where it has specifically made a difference with individual cases, or indeed would have.