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Closed petition Treat knife crime as a health issue, to tackle the current epidemic in London.
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Treating knife crime as a health issue is credited with prompting a dramatic drop in stabbings in Scotland, with the decline most pronounced in Glasgow, a city that once had one of the highest murder rates in western Europe.
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