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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
12 years of 'Tough on crime'.....yeah
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David Cameron puts a good argument forward that I and many others will agree with. There needs to be more consideration for the real victim who I am sure in all cases is hit by trauma the moment they believe am intruder has broken in.
There is also the issue that burglars feel protected by the law and safe to carry on burgling. This is a dangerous argument as it opens the door to vigilatism.
There needs to be a better balance.
The laws on reasonable force and traumatic defence should be strengthened.
Just to put the facts right on crime. Not that I agree with them but to ou to be some myths.
Over 80,000 locked up, prisons full. Labour has locked up more criminals than any other government.
Labour is the ONLY post war government to crime. By about a third nationwide and by over a third in Hyndburn. Burglaries over the last few years are at all tme lows for example. ASB is 10% what it was in July 2003.
Labour has put bobbies back on the beaT with dedicated neighbourhood policing.
Labour has made the police accountable in law to local residents and in law to local councils.
Labour has made it law that every area has a Community Safety Partnership of all agencies with targets. Local Tories chair it and have been shouting it's success for several years now so it's not just Labour.
David Cameron is not going to reverse any of these.
The Daily Mail has tried and continues to try and win the right wing argument on crime by playing on fear before facts for over a century.
What has happenned in the last 13 years has been what Manu said was impossible, cut crime and cut it consideraby.
Britain is a much safer place but that doesn't sell newspapers does it?