I'm pretty sure most people will know of and avoid rough pubs, certain areas of town, and circumstances like late night travel on public transport; or if they don't avoid them they are on t… (View Post)

One thing this does show is that sadly regulators can be just as political and in some cases incompetent as anyone else. (View Post)

I don't think we can tackle violence generally if we have this tacit partitioning of crime into the accepted and the outrageous. If nothing else there will be an overlap between the resources, c… (View Post)

That's what I was saying earlier, we as a society do not give a fuck about most violent crime. How you expect the streets to be made safer when we tolerate a lot of violence is beyond me. (View Post)

Okay but that is all part of the same problem. For some reason as a society we have this notion that certain types of victims or perpetrators make a crime more or less outrageous, ranging between the… (View Post)