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One does have to wonder as overall crime wave trends tend to follow in similar oposite lines to economic state trends of which does of course stand to reason
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Remarkable insight and perfectly true - an leaked Home Office report said much the same thing, no matter how tough you are on crime the figures follow the economy. Which rather begs the question as to how come we came to lock so many people up that the prisons budget eats up the money that should be providing court and probation services and do the project prisoner numbers figure include an allowance for recession crime wave (no, I've looked. The DfT's projections for transport costs, which ruled out railway electrification, projected an oil price of $20 a barrel...).
In stable-door-horse-bolted news, Gordon Brown is discovering the wonders of effective bank regulation with his Euro chums, having spent years (prompted by his, er, banking mates) telling them about the wonders of laissez-faire deregulation and a light touch. Northern Rock is a hefty dose of clue, really.