Are proposals to toughen up on crime a true reflection of the state of things, or a cynical ploy?

Question

The Queen announced that her government intends, in the next year, to introduce yet more laws, and to toughen up existing ones, in order further to control crime. This seems to be at odds with the messages that we're given, year on year, that crime levels (incidence) are falling, and that more criminals are being caught (detection rates) and more severely sentenced than in the past. If the incidence (see every Police Authority's Annual Report over the last several years) truly is falling, and if detection rates (ditto Annual Reports) truly are rising, surely that means the country is, overall, a safer and more secure place tp live? I know that's not most people's perception (including mine), but perhaps our perception is being clouded by the media and governmental propoganda machine that appears, at least to me, to have a mutually vested interest in making us, and keeping us, afraid of shadows so that they can indulge in horror stories, and further erode basic freedoms.

Redmonk, Hi! You clearly haven't read, or have misunderstood, the question. Of course the prisons are full - "detection rates are rising". The Police maintain that,year on year, actual crime rates are falling. It's our distorted perception that allows the introduction of ever morte laws, which, while addressed ostensibly at crimw, also reduce, little by little, our basic freedoms.

Redmonk, Hi! You clearly haven't read, or have misunderstood, the question. Of course the prisons are full - "detection rates are rising". The Police maintain that, year on year, actual crime rates are falling. It's our distorted perception that allows the introduction of ever more laws, which, while addressed ostensibly at crime, also reduce, little by little, our basic freedoms.

Answer 1

your on the right track buddy many including me didnt notice and kind of didnt realise yet youve kind of worked it out for your self ,many people just go on about there lives and it doesnt even occur to them our governments could be working against us .all through out history governments and people that put them selves in high places eventually try to enslave the people they are suposed to be working for ,yet people dont seem to learn this lesson and history repeats itself .the main way in which they do it is by problem ,reaction,solution.they create the problem ,then they get the reaction from the people and then they give the solution in which they pass laws that affect the rights of the people yet the people dont see any thing wrong in that because the government is there to help us right ?these laws they pass will end up affecting us all .this subject is so vast and goes so far back that the picture is so big alot of people find it hard to comprehend any way i was lucky to stumble acrosss this link from someone on here and it totally woke me up to whats going on around us http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm any way from everything youve said your on target.

"people that give away neccesary liberty for tempoary safety deserve neither liberty or safety" benjamin franklin

Answer 2

HI! you need a real rethink on this one, crime cannot be decreasing when our prisons are full and yet crimes are still occurring. Murder has become such a normal event that if you were to murder me you would probably get no more than two or three actual years in prison. If you were to steal from a bank you could get ten to twenty years in prison. Now what is the most serious crime to you, stealing money or murdering someone. The problem is the do- gooders have removed all the resources to control crime. Crime busting should start at the start of a criminals Career i.e. when he or she is young. Remove young offenders from the age of eleven upwards to correction centres and not only make life better for those that live on the estates where they are creating havoc but give the child and parents time to evaluate where they are going. Forcing parents whose children keep offending to confront what is happening to the child and making the parents responsible for their own children's actions. Provide work related training for offenders and so on.

Answer 3

It is in the interests of government to keep the citizens afraid of bogey men, this is why people like Bliar and his henchmen like John Reid keep telling us tales to suggest we are all likely to be murdered in our beds. At the same time our Dear Leader is in denial about the situation in Iraq being a source of increasing the threat from Islamic terrorism. As has been said it's a convenient ploy to further erode our freedom.

Answer 4

As usual the governments proposals for law and order are a just a useless piece of electoral spin and has no substance to it. Everything has got worse under this government and they are too scared to tell the truth about what the reality really is. Anyone who believes the government, are really a gullible lot wearing rose tinted glasses.

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Crime has always been the one tory issue that makes them look good they have always been to the right of labour (more anti crime) By making the last queens speech before Blair leaves about crime it makes labour look strong and the tories look weak, it will be hard for the tories to object to many of these proposal, so cameron looks weak, brown takes over cameron looks damaged and has to play catch up, we have a general election labour does it again. Good Politics screw our public freedoms.

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we should never keep our hands down as far as crime is concerned, the less crime there is the better but at the same time we should always improve our laws and penal system no matter what, to scare those who thinks of doing crime.

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