New Knife Laws Take Effect in the UK on Sept. 24th Outlawing Zombie Knives

[echo83]

Regents Park Police Twitter

This was posted in 2018 after a weapons sweep. Imagine how much safer the streets have gotten since then.

I did a Google image search on that pic figuring it had to be some kind of fake, that this was too absurd to possibly be legitimate. Especially when I first traced it to a website called 4plebs.org, under the /Politically Incorrect subforum.  Honest to God, I went into this thinking this reply was to be a cautionary tale about thinking critically and not beleiving everything you see on the internet. 

Nope.  It was part of a 2018 post on X by Regents Park (London) municipal police - @MPSRegentsPark .  Here's a contemporaneous article about that particular "weapons sweep".

Note the quote from Saqid Khan, mayor of London: "No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."

Let those works sink in for a minute: there is never a reason to carry a knife.

Forum rules do not allow me to say anything more than: that picture and the story behind it are real.

Right? I triple checked before I posted, and that's why I linked the original tweet from the police in my post just to be sure. 

It's scary to me that there are people who looked at that original tweet back in 2018 and actually felt safer. 

And it's scary that anyone in law enforcement would throw 2 screwdrivers, a file, a pair of scissors, and 2 pairs of pliers into an evidence locker and say "Yeah, mission accomplished."

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

My question is what dipstick is looking at a file and thinks "Oh man, what a dangerous weapon. Better get this off the streets before someone gets hurt."

[NT2C]

And yet, they let people just wander about willy-nilly with... umbrellas!  Just let them walk around with pointed spears and not even require that they be registered and licensed?

[Moab]

And yet, they let people just wander about willy-nilly with... umbrellas!  Just let them walk around with pointed spears and not even require that they be registered and licensed?

That'll be next.

I obviously don't follow British social media. But has there ever been any outcry about how ridiculous this is?!

I guess not since they jailed 3000 people for online posts. This is so 1984. 1984 is blushing.

[MacWa77ace]

And it's scary that anyone in law enforcement would throw 2 screwdrivers, a file, a pair of scissors, and 2 pairs of pliers into an evidence locker and say "Yeah, mission accomplished."