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There's a mathematical model that the Home Office run,it's used to predict the ebb and flow of crime.... the model shows that with every X% increase in affluence nationality crime increases X%. Coupled with every X% increases in population, crime increases X%. The country's doing well, and people are in better health and living longer. No big surprise that crime reflects that.The number of police officers had fallen by 11% due to Tory austerity. Crime has increased and the solving of criminal cases has fallen too. Also significantly, the number of experienced officers that left the police because of austerity (early retirement and other reasons) means that currently a third of police officers have been in the job for less than 3 years. Lack of police officers and a lack of police experience is the reason for the drop in crime detection. This wasn't caused by light touch anything, it was Tory cuts.
To blame Labour for anything after the Tories have been in power for 12 years begs the question why the hell are in government if they have done nothing in all that time.
Every crime metric shows the same rise, including those that use exactly the same methodology of 12 years ago when Labour was in power.
11% fall of police officers solely because of the austerity measures... I don't see that as the whole story. Besides that it was an opportunity to get 11% better police officers, the sort of police officers that don't strip search menstruating teenage girls because of the colour of their skin.
The sort of police officer that won't use their credentials to stop, kidnap, rape, murder and finally desecration of the corpse. The sort of police officers that won't take selfies with the 2 bodies victim's of murder then tweet "jokes' about "dead birds". The sort of officers that won't stop someone for "being black in charge of an expensive BMW" . The sort of officers that don't sit around Charing Cross Station sends homophobic, racist, vile and abhorrent tweets and social media post about raping their female colleagues... on work time.
It's the police that are driving up the crime rate wouldn't you agree?

