The return to effective policing in the UK?
admin on Jan 28th 2009
It’s good to read Simon Jenkins again. He has a remarkable facility for putting the blindingly obvious into words that even our benighted leaders should be able to follow.
His article on policing summarises precisely what is wrong and how our present situation arose. The incident in Richmond last year demonstrates the parlous state of policing today: two thieves smashing a jewellery store window in broad daylight, in a busy high street, surrounded by startled shoppers, in full view of CCTV cameras, expecting that the police had been called. Were they concerned about their current or future liberty? Not at all. And are we, the public, surprised by their audacity? Not really.
Eleven years of Blairite criminal philosophy (in both senses) and we have thieves walking up and down our High Streets with sledge hammers and balaclavas with not a copper to be seen. But you can be sure that the statistics look fine.
(Longbowman)
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