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Stop and search doesn't solve knife crime, so why not try something new?
Kam Gill - 10 November 2018
Stop and Search is to modern policing what bloodletting was to ancient medicine - ineffective, but clung to.
Stop and Search is to modern policing what bloodletting was to ancient medicine. An ineffective ‘cure’, which, in the absence of alternatives, gets tried again and again, despite its propensity to make the situation worse. Each failure causes its proponents to double down and call for more.
This week a sixteen year old boy was killed in Tulse Hill, the fifth in six days, bringing the total number of homicides in London to 119 this year. In response, calls for increased stop and search have become strident. The response from politicians and police has been at best confused.... See more
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