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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Although the problem with targets is depending on how they are defined and enforced, people can spend more time trying to fulfill targets than they do actually doing their job.
I think this *could* be good. While I don't think giving the police the power to actually assault people would be good, I think that if the police are more visibly patrolling (and I don't count haring round in miscellaneous vehicles here), it might persuade at least some people not to offend.
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I don't think that giving the police the power to assault people is the idea here Stuart ,it is more a metaphorical "clip" ,a way of showing the offender the concequence of their actions directly without clogging up the court system for months on end .
I do agree with your point about targets ,to often recources get taken away from one area to focus on another to get targets down, only to see the crime figures rise in a different area