Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable Simon Megicks said the arrival of the Knife Angel gave people “the opportunity to reflect, think about and talk about the horrors of knife-carrying in this county”.<\/p>\n
“Here is Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, although we have lower knife crime than the national average, we’ve been touched by some significant and really damaging crime,” he said.<\/p>\n
“What I would say to those who carry a knife is – it makes you more susceptible to being stabbed yourself. <\/p>\n
“It doesn’t make you safer, it doesn’t give you any kudos or credibility. It actually makes you look weaker.”<\/p>\n
Police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston described knife crime as “a scourge that impacts our young people far more than any others”.<\/p>\n
Jonathan James added: “Knife crime is a choice – violence is a choice – and it’s our intention to educate young people that knife crime, carrying a knife and violence are the wrong choice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cambridgeshire Police Chief Constable Simon Megicks said the arrival of the Knife Angel gave people “the opportunity to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-438002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}