The Real Slim Shady said:Anyone bother with this? I mean "tough on crime, tough in the causes of crime" has gone absolutley
nowhere - as we'd expect from Blair.
Slim
Recorded crime is actually well down since the early nineties...
"Crime in England and Wales fell by nine per cent in 2002, according to a survey which measures
people's experience of crime. Police recorded crime is down by seven per cent and the risk of being
a victim remains at its lowest level for 20 years."
number-10.gov.ukpage3418.aspOpen ↗
That isn't to say that there aren't a hell of lot of improvements that can and should still happen,
that individual police officers don't sometimes do stupid (and occasionally illegal) things and that
the government (like all governments) doesn't now and then shoot itself, the police and the public
in the foot, but to ignore the genuine progress that has been made is, I think, a mistake. And I
suspect the same is broadly true for other public services such as the NHS as well.
Unfortunately, most people appear to believe exactly the opposite - couldn't be something to do
with the scrupulously fair and impartial way papers like the Daily Mail report what's going on,
could it...
David