Name: Exclusive: Big rise in use of stop and search powers by Metropolitan Police
Uploaded: 2019-04-01T20:39:55+00:00
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: "We cannot arrest our way out of this epidemic" - that was the Prime Minister's warning at today's knife crime summit in Downing Street.

“We cannot arrest our way out of this epidemic” – that was the Prime Minister’s warning at today’s knife crime summit in Downing Street.

And police measures do appear to be struggling to make a difference.

Channel 4 News can exclusively reveal a 16-fold rise in the use of Section 60 stop and search powers by the Metropolitan Police in just three years, while the number of stabbings has risen.