Friday, 1 August 2025
The quality of the observation
'There's a lot of knife crime in London,' admits police minister after crackdown on muggers targeting pupils
Police minister Dame Diana Johnson admitted on Friday that “there is a lot of knife crime in London”.
She was highlighting a series of initiatives in knife crime hotspots across the country to reduce the number of offences.
Asked to list the seven key areas, she told LBC Radio: “We have got the Metropolitan Police obviously because there is a lot of knife crime in London.”
But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill of the analyst is evinced. He makes, in silence, a host of observations and inferences. So, perhaps, do his companions; and the difference in the extent of the information obtained, lies not so much in the validity of the inference as in the quality of the observation. The necessary knowledge is that of what to observe.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
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Observation yes, Poe yes, but in this matter, I am simply nonplussed.
James - it's supposed to be sarcastic - they choose what to observe even though everyone else has observed it for years.
In the absence of any honest observation of her own incompetence, what is the betting that the solution is to ban the reporting of knife crime, especially in "soshul medja", which always encourages and causes more crime.
Cynique? Moi?
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