Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the online news portal Nius. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Police union demands one year of free Netflix for criminals who voluntarily hand over their knives
Knife violence is escalating in Germany. Now the police union GdP is proposing a “scrappage bonus” for knives, combined with a “knife amnesty”. Criminals who voluntarily hand over their butterfly knives will receive free Netflix for a year.
It is a strange suggestion that has caused a stir: The Federal Chairman of the Police Union (Gewerkschaft der Polizei, GdP), Jochen Kopelke, has called for an immediate knife amnesty after the brutal knife attack in Stuttgart. This means that anyone who hands in their knife should receive a reward. The Federal Minister of Justice should implement this. “Last year, my colleagues recorded almost 9,000 knife attacks causing serious and dangerous bodily harm. These figures are cause for great concern and make swift action essential,” the GdP head explained on Tuesday. [Are they serious? Why don’t they deport these bastards immediately, and if they come back, shoot them? No more knife crime from that one.]
“Serious incentives for those who surrender”
Banned and dangerous knives must be removed from private hands as quickly as possible, demands the Bremen police chief. A knife amnesty is a possible first step. He is initially counting on the voluntary cooperation of knife owners. “For this measure to be effective, the federal government must create serious incentives for those who hand them in. In concrete terms, this could mean a year of Netflix for handing in a banned butterfly knife.”
GdP welcomes knife ban
According to Kopelke, German gun laws are currently too complicated to clearly regulate the scope of knives. The GdP is therefore proposing a simplification. Long-term structural adjustments are needed, said the union leader.
In principle, more restrictions are needed, added Kopelke. In this context, the GdP welcomes the proposal to ban the carrying of knives, “but we would like to point out that this will entail increased controls. Their reliable implementation requires additional staff and improved equipment for our police forces,” said the GdP chief. [It’s not the knife that the problem, STUPID, it’s those who use them to attack and stab people with them that are the problem.]
The Police Union, or GdP for short, is a German trade union founded in 1950 that has over 200,000 members. It has been a member of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) since 1978.
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