Conservative Party leader David Cameron has launched a knife crime action plan and outlined how he said a Tory government would fix what he termed Britain’s ‘broken’ society.
He spoke of a need to "crack down" on knife crime and criminals, and set out a number of proposals including:
-Long-term measures to make families stronger and deal with the causes of crime
-Tougher policing to catch those who carry and use knives
-Tougher sentencing, so that rather than a third of knife criminals being let off with a caution or final warning, as happens currently, anyone convicted under a Conservative Government would expect to receive a custodial sentence
-A system of rehabilitating young offenders to stop them committing knife and other crimes in the future
David Cameron called for "tough action" to tackle knife crime, and said, "While our society is broken today, it is not broken for ever. We can and will repair it."
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