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Don't leave kids to fight knife crime

Sunday Mail

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September 07, 2025

WHEN Scotland launched its zero tolerance policy on knife crime in 2012, it was a genuinely game-changing moment.

It was part of a package of measures that drastically curbed violent crime and ended Glasgow's infamous status as the murder capital of Europe.

The policy was so successful it was lauded and copied by nations around the world.

Fast forward 13 years and astonishingly - as the Sunday Mail can reveal today - this approach has been abandoned.

WEITERE GESCHICHTEN VON Sunday Mail

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