Forums › Life › Politics, Media & Current Events › UK : East : crime drop in Ipswich during December 06 – a sad indictment on society…
you might think this is a strange subject line; why am I not happy that crime went down in my town last year? There were 100 less burglaries in December for a start, and a drop in other crimes on the street..
Remember what happened though – 5 prostitutes were murdered, and as part of the investigation town was literally flooded with cops; hundreds of extra bobbies, tens of CCTV cars, nearly every force in the UK was here at one point..
it was Middle Englands dream – you literally could not go down any street in some areas without seeing a police officer, which is what all the “Daily Mail” readers seem to clamour for.
Has society become so dysfunctional that a significant minority of people seem to need a police state to deter them from trying to help themselves to others’ property?
the implications of this do worry me, as the situation in Ipswich has been heavily scrutinised by the Home Office (particularly as they are paying for a lot of the extra policing costs last year)…
to those unconcerned about civil liberties it does show that flooding areas with high profile police patrols actually “works” in reducing crime (at least in the short term) – it also shows just how many people are prepared to prey on others if there isn’t a greater force (i.e cops) to keep them in line…
incidentally cops have been keeping up the pressure in the former “red light” area and have driven most of the prostitutes to Norwich – where they become “another county’s problem”.
Doubtless someone in power will be seeing that as a “quick win…”
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