of course, it’s “for our own good”. no reasonable suspicion necessary.

and as always with this kind of logic, those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear… right?

Sir Al Aynsley-Green called for more research into the effects of increased police powers.

New measures are being used by police to search for knives using hand-held and walk-through metal detectors.
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“The work we are doing in London in particular is working alongside communities to do robust stop-and-search operations using knife arches and search wands where intelligence tells us that there is the most likelihood that people are carrying knives and weapons,” she said.

“That is not aimed at victimising young people; it’s aimed at keeping them safe.”

Under the Metropolitan Police’s plans announced this month, officers can search people without reasonable suspicion under Section 60 of the Public Order Act.

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“I know that’s a problem – but until we make them all realise they have to get rid of all their guns and knives we wont find a solution to this problem.”

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Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of children’s support charity Kids Company, told the BBC that stop-and-search did not address the “core problems”.

“Violence is a bit like a virus,” she said. “It’s spreading amongst children and children are feeling really unsafe, and the reason is the failure of adults to create structures that protect children.

“So what’s the point of just searching the children and not solving the core problems? The kids are carrying knives because they don’t feel safe.”

if the police honestly think they can get knives and guns off the streets through random stop-and-search, they’re even more deluded then i first thought.

and we all know “random” is never really random, now, is it?

it’s got boris’s seal of approval – therefore it must be good.

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