Straight to the POINT

STOP and search is not discriminatory. I’d never complain if searching me saved lives. IAN KENNINGTON, Welling, Kent. WE DO not need a Knife Tsar. What we need is tough sentencing as a deterrent. MICK BRIDGSTOCK, Rushden, Northants. AN ENDLESS stream of experts, politicians, social workers and youth workers come up with their solutions to knife crime. Not one suggests the role of the parents. MARGARET ASHBY, Yeovil, Somerset. WE NEED a two-week knife amnesty, followed by the introduction of a mandatory three-year sentence for anyone found guilty of possession of a knife. I. HARRINGTON, Axminster, Devon. FOUND in possession of a knife: three-year sentence. Use of a knife in violent circumstances: ten years. Murder using a knife: Full life-term. BARRY RYAN, Warrington, Cheshire. THE only way to fight this rising tide of knife crime is to increase police numbers and target drug dealers. S. A. CLARKE, Lincoln. RE-INTRODUCE compulsory National Service to get knife-carrying youths off our streets. They need to be educated to respect others. TINA DAVEY, High Wycombe, Bucks. SURELY the current crisis demands that soldiers patrol our streets with the power to stop and search, and arrest offenders?

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