Steve Hunt wrote:
In the Lords, Labour voted against the introduction of Knife Crime Prevention Orders, which are designed to place curbs on those who routinely carry knives, and prevent gang escalation.
They voted against them because they are a scam. They are curfew orders on 12-year-olds, if the 12 year old decides to pop out to his mates' house and breach the order the plenty is up to two years in jail.
For breaching an order based on never having to attend court or be convicted of a crime.
The orders last up to two years and require no conviction.
Even the Police Federation think they are worthless.
Successive governments have gutted funding for children's services that tackled the underpinning reason why kids commit crime. Javid isn't bothered about reinstating that funding, whilst lauding the VRU in Scotland that has brought down violent crime to the point they have the lowest knife deaths in the UK.
The orders are cheap and make great Daily Mail fodder, VRUs are expensive but work.
Javid picked the cheap one with good press.