Sir Ian Blair reveals Operation Blunt 2

As a result of the recent stabbing of 16 year old Ben Kinsella, London Mayor Boris Johnson and the head of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair, came together at City Hall to speak about their solutions on knife crime in the capital, especially amongst teenagers.

Operation Blunt would be only one area in which the authorities are working on to make London safer.

So why are the authorities only really gaining interest in what seems like a growing knife culture in what is supposed to be one of the most famous cities in the world that brings in tourists constantly?
Is it the "1,200 people that were arrested on suspicion of possessing weapons and other suspected knife-related crimes between 19th May and 29th June this year"?
Or possibly the "528 knives [that were] recovered as a result of 26,777 searches".

As Boris Johnson kept quite silent throughout the press call in City Hall, Sir Ian Blair finished it up by stating

"Everybody is shocked by the level of violence we are seeing, particularly towards young people in London, and we must all work as hard as we can together to reverse this dreadful trend."

As the authorities are still quite baffled as to what has caused this dramatic increase in knife crime in the capital, teenagers worry that if they step out of the house, will they be coming back?

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