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Originally Posted by carlingman
Well i for one think this thread is bound to wander being as Speed Cameras are such a hot topic at the moment.
I have read this thread from the start and it has thrown up some very interesting points.
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Judging by the media in General (and this forum in particular), it would seem the only thing an Elected commissioner would care about is speed cameras.. All those less glamourous crimes (you know the petty little ones like oohhh, murder, mugging etc) would get forgotten, unless there was an angle to them (like the victim being an old person, a young kid etc).
BTW, I believe that as thread starter, Incog does get some say as to what's on or off topic (even though she is not a Mod). She can certainly ask for the thread to be closed.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
<snip>look around the country and what are the publics issues with crime.
Anti-social behaviour
Burglery
Speed cameras
These issues are what needs to be tackled 24/7 and on what the police will be judged. Not isolated terrible public crimes as you suggest.
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Actually I disagree. The issue is not Speed cameras as such, but the bad driving (speeding/causing accidents etc) they use as an excuse to use Speed cameras. No speeding (which, while it may not cause accidents as such, does increase the severity of injuries caused by accidents) and no bad driving = no excuse for Speed Cameras.
I do agree that those crimes need to be sorted out. The problem is that come election time, the commissioner would be tempted to divert resources from those crimes to more glamourous ones that would get him or her more publicity. I am not saying they will do that, but I don't think we can take the chance they will.