With police in WA poised to get new stop-and-search powers targeting knives, the question is whether that translates to making the community safer, or strays closer to the type of laws the police minister opposed strongly a decade ago.
A Perth teenager who fatally stabbed a good Samaritan after he tried to retrieve a stolen bike was a wannabe ‘gangster’ who carried a knife because it was a ‘cool and tough thing to do’.