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Police numbers - who believes What TM say?

(57 Posts)
Anja Tue 05-Mar-19 08:13:31

PS re believing this woman...I don’t see how anyone can if they pass her words through a reality checker. She just opens her mouth and all this rubbish gushes out. She doesn’t even sound convincing.

Anja Tue 05-Mar-19 08:09:04

Of course this is as a result of her cuts. It’s not just a case of being on ‘every street’. Because of cuts and lack of officers, criminals and youngsters are know said to be confident there is little likelihood of ever encountering a police presence anywhere. They can go out carrying and intent on causing trouble with almost guaranteed immunity.

Statistics are showing a direct correlation between falling numbers of police and a rise in all violent crimes. As one graph falls the other rises in direct proportion.

gillybob Tue 05-Mar-19 07:56:06

I’m not sure more police would have made any difference to the senseless murder of this young girl . They cannot be on every street corner in every town, village and city “ just looking for nutters with knives”.

LullyDully Tue 05-Mar-19 07:51:30

Community police,who are known to the population must be important whatever TH says

It does concern me that we wait for a scouting, white, six former to die before outrage is shown by everyone.. So many stabbing of the young is such a disgrace. It has to be linked to Police numbers, along with lack of services and resources ,due to cuts. We can not go on wasting lives like this.

We all realise.that organised crime is at the heart of this but this needs tackling before the streets become no go areas, particularly for young people.

MaizieD Tue 05-Mar-19 07:51:00

The first thing you have to realise, crystaltipps is that this country is being 'led' by a woman who is completely insane. Then everything falls into place.

tanith Tue 05-Mar-19 07:08:14

She’s just not living in the same World as the rest of us, it’s not rocket science is it? Fewer police officers lead to more crime I know that’s a very simplified view but it makes perfect sense to me.

crystaltipps Tue 05-Mar-19 07:04:05

Does anyone really believe there is no link between the cut in police numbers and the rise in crime? This is what is known as a negative correlation, but perhaps our esteemed former Home Secretary hasn’t heard of that. By that logic we might as well have no police at all. She also no doubt denies the link between austerity and rise in crime. Surely cuts in youth services, support for struggling families, also contribute? Shouldn’t we be trying to prevent increase in crime not just respond to it? I’m sure we’ve all got stories where the police haven’t responded to reports of car crime or burglary, because they are so overstretched. We should be campaigning to restore and increase police numbers overall.