As it happened: London roadside emergency

Why do London medics wear body armor?
 
They're in a fairly dangerous large urban center of 8 million people? Where there's a lot of violent crime, sometimes directed at paramedics?
 
Only seeing 3 fatals in a ten year career is pretty spectacular!
 
Just because it is body armor doesn't mean they are bullet proof vests, might be stab plates instead.
 
Most likely stab vest, as although shootings are relatively rare, stabbings are not.
 
These are stab vests.

There's real violence in the UK. There's real poverty, and there's real social problems.

They just don't have as many firearms. So when someone wants to hurt someone, they tend to use a knife, or an impact weapon, and less people die, because all the "a gun is just a tool" talk aside, it's a little harder to kill someone with a knife.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/ny-fares-well-vs-london-in-a-new-study/83495/

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/world/as-crime-rises-london-looks-to-new-york-for-lessons.html
 
FourLoko said:
they don't even have guns in that silly place
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Oh how wrong you are:

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