NastyNickers wrote:Trapper John wrote:measurer wrote:Never mind blaming Blair or Brown, the reason is the lack of Police, and that's down to the Tory party. You hardly see them walking the streets any more either, usually they patrol in cars, seemingly to cover a "wider area". That's not the truth though, they just don't have enough police to cover the areas.
It doesn't matter how many police you have these events will still happen, they would happen if everyone was a policeman or policewoman, do we see every crime that is commited? there are 60 million of us and we just don't.
You can only tackle this sort of crime at source and the source is young kids from mostly immigrant backgrounds but anytime someone has the balls to tackle it, like stopping and searching young kids from immigrant backgrounds they are immediately set upon by a gaggle of anti this and anti thats and it all comes to a stop.
More police worked in Manchester. We had the Xcalibre task force that cracked down on the gun crime. Massively cut down on the amount of gang related violence.
Crime initiatives invaribly do work in the short term, stop and searching black kids down here was working until they stopped it. The problem with these initiatives is that unless the population is prepared to pay say £1000 a month in council tax, they have no long term affect.