Tough on crime?

[anotheoldgit]

Blair promised he would be tough on crime, now 13 years later figures show that there is a violent attack every 30 seconds.

http://www.thesun.co....every-30-seconds.html

/// "Knife crime remains a serious concern on our streets and the Conservatives will make tackling it a priority."///

The choice is yours to make at the ballot box.

[R1Geezer]

The basic belief of yer socilaists is that any crime that is committed is the fault of the state for creating the condictions such that the perpetrator has no choice, hence all crime is the fault of the nation and therefore should go unpunished. Now it could be argued that Noo Labour are removed from the standard socialsit mantra and to some extent that is rule but it still there is very little distance between new and auld Labour in that sense,

[jake-the-peg]

Yeah - you let the Sun tell you how to vote

They don't show you this I'll bet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...easton/crimestats.gif

Might confuse you into not electing their chums!

[anotheoldgit]

Just as your link might confuse us to vote for their (BBC's) chums

I have more faith in this:

http://www.telegraph....me-rise-revealed.html

/// The study, by the independent House of Commons Library, shows violence against the person increased from 618,417 to 887,942 last year.///

[VHG]

>Blair promised he would be tough on crime

Unfortunately Blair was very good at coming out with these "sound bites" but then rarely did anything about them.

He "got out" before the extent of this was fully discovered.

He then left Brown to clear up HIS mess (and of course Brown added much more of his own mess).

I see the Governemt borrowed 163 BILLION last year (the largest figure for UK in peacetime)

http://news.bbc.co.uk.../business/8636701.stm

[Quizmonster]

Chris Grayling, whose photo dominates the Sun item, is a walking disaster area as far as statistics - or anything much else - are concerned. He's the guy who told us that, in deprived areas, 54% of girls under 18 became pregnant. When it was pointed out to him that the real figure is 5.4%...ie he had exaggerated by a factor of 10...he said something pathetic like, "Well, it's still bad, isn't it?"

Similarly, he had distributed in various towns scaremongering figures about violent crime that did exactly the same thing. If I remember rightly, Luton residents for example were told that there had been some huge number of such attacks but, when reporters asked the local police chief if that was the case, they were told the true figure was a tiny fraction of that. What he had done was compare data from different time-periods during which crime was recorded in different ways. In other words, he was comparing apples and pears which is a simple way of distorting anything to make a spurious point.
Listening to him at any time on STATISTICS - or the Sun on ANYTHING AT ALL a fortnight before an election (or any other time for that matter) - is as rational as handing an angry teenager a Sten-gun.

Another memory I have is of Boris Johnson claiming that he - unlike Ken Livingstone - had the answer to knife crime in London. Not so's you'd notice, it seems! Another Tory buffoon.

[Lonnie]

Not to mention a myriad of other things, in my opinion, the two things that have done for this country, are the 'Human Rights law', and 'Political Correctness'.

These two things alone, as they stand, make it impossible to be tough on crime.