Medicine is a good analogy, because you almost always want to spend more on prevention, yet government usually does the opposite. In that case, prosecuting "gateway" crimes is better value.… (View Post)

And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just look how good the stats are on physical violence, theft (primarily because burglaries have dropped off), and so on. If you were to take a cold look a… (View Post)

Speculation that they simply won't bother to vote this evening. This is the equivalent of councils not doing overnight counts - rubbish. (View Post)

Jeezo, this has really upset you. FWIW, my local Scotmid regularly gets cleaned out by a group of 16-year olds. I'm not suggesting it's not happening, just that the sudden obsession with it… (View Post)

You'd have picked up on it 5 years ago if your finger was on the pulse. But I do think a discussion on crime is overdue. There has been brilliant progress in violence, theft, criminal damage and… (View Post)