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Old 12-03-2010, 12:39   #382
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Re: "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"

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Originally Posted by punky View Post
The difference with this case than others recently is the police can't be accused of doing nothing.
It wasn't the police doing nothing that was the problem here - it was the failure of all the relevant authorities (for whatever reason) to do something effective about the sort of longstanding antisocial behaviour that this poor man was subjected to and that there's supposed to be a zero tolerance of.

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There's been an arrest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/8563454.stm
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