Crime rise is due to less money on policing
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I’M sure I’m not the only one to write to you concerning the appalling increase in crime since June 2017, as reported in the media recently. However, I feel that despite continuous government excuses, it is simply a direct result of the drastic reduction in police personnel and police funding.
It has now become undeniable that the ‘reorganisation’ of policing has, in fact, actually directly resulted in the empowerment and reorganisation of opportunistic and organised crime.
Increases in council tax only seem to result in an illogical decrease in council services. Or so it seems to most of us. Our money is continually being directed into funding minority popularist schemes such as cycle tracks, dedicated bus routes, smart motorways etc., in preference to the more basic requirements of our less vociferous citizen majority.
We now, more than ever, need to address the requirements of our ordinary citizens to have their basic entitlement to protection from crime and violence regarded as a prioritised right, by simply redirecting funding to increasing the number of our bobbies.
The recent improvements in crime prevention and detection technology are very encouraging, but these will not work if there is an insufficient police force available to use them to the full. R M Greaves, Heaton Moor, Stockport