Cutlery control in Worcester
You’ve got to be fucking shitting me.
Something that was just a running joke less than a week ago is now headed towards actually public policy.
“What we want to do is get rid of the perception that it is all right to carry a knife, and get the message to the young kids that it is not OK to have a knife in your possession,” Mr. Early said.
I was half way through writing up a grandiose explanation of how this logic is inherently flawed, but I did that on WTAG last Monday with Mike Messina and repetition makes me feel like a crazy person. Plus WoMag did a wonderful job this past thursday. So instead I’ll just point out that the problem in Worcester is not ‘knife violence’, it’s that D.A. Early and WPD Chief Gemme are two simpletons who possess such a small, provincial world view [...]
Original post by Brendan