Is Knife crime publicity going to generate it and secondly if crime is generally going down why is there such?

Question

a song and dance about it. Do we need protecting or something? Perhaps our police need more stop and search powers as a solution and we all need identity cards?

(This is sarcasm by the way).

Answer 1

Like everything in modern life, the furore is media-fed and statistics are being used to support both sides of the argument! I think blackspots of trouble have developed in certain areas, but they are the exception, not the rule.