Hey Arthur, you do know that New York cut crime while simultaneously reducing the size of the police force, or that all these cuts along with the wider ones will do is reduce the size of the public sector to around 2006 proportions?
Now correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the sky wasn't falling and criminals weren't patrolling the streets randomly killing and maiming during the last decade.
It's simple really, if the police do as the Home Secretary has requested and stop the obsession with community PR and targets all will be fine. They are, however, openly defying this at this time through things like renaming these rating schemes and reinventing them. At some point they became so busy trying to do paperwork that they apparently are struggling with the addiction - bloated public sector bureaucracy at its' finest and one of Labour's worst legacies throughout the sector..
But no need to listen to me -
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