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Met police challenged on budget cuts crime claim

London's Metropolitan Police are playing 'nudge and wink politics' over police budgets, our Director, Richard Garside told this morning's BBC Radio Four Today programme.

His comments came in response to last week's claim...

Comment

The curious case of the public subsidy on guns

A longer version of this piece appears in the June 2014...

Publication

Young people, knives and guns (summary)

The summary version of detailed research carried out in 2009 on the evidence for effective strategies to tackle knife and gun carrying by young people.

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Young people, knives and guns

There is little evidence to support police-led interventions to tackle knife violence, research from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has concluded. Following a comprehensive review of gun...

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Street Weapons Commission: Guns, Knives and Street Violence

Street Weapons Commission: Guns, Knives and Street Violence is a review of the extent and nature of the use of guns and knives in violent crime in five UK cities.