The Conservatives: Tough on Govt. Spending. Tough on the Causes of Govt. Spending.
Serious Note: This was perhaps inevitable. There is always a point where cuts to police cause a dramatic change in perceptions of policing. When criminals think that policing is inadequate to catch them, they'll get more adventurous.
In before someone blames immigration for this.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
And how exactly would spending even 10 times the money have saved ANY lives?  Similar goes for violent crime. In general the Police can never really prevent that much crime. |
Can you ever post without using ridiculous straw-man arguments?
There is a tipping point in any industry, be it private or in this case public enterprise where cutting budgets has a disproportionate affect on results. Just like diminishing returns, there is a point where Pareto principle reverses. When you start cutting into the 20% that covers 80% of customers (This case, front line policing), it magnifies the effects of the cuts. It's the same reason why companies get into trouble once they run out of "efficiency" job cuts and it applies here. Policing cuts are now getting to the point where it IS affecting results. Nobody is arguing for policing budgets to be multiplied by 10, but it is a very reasonable argument to say that the policy of cuts by Govt is now showing to be damaging.