The Spectator’s Natasha Feroze sits down with Dr. Lawrence Newport, academic and founder of the new campaign Crush Crime. They discuss the alarming increase in crime rates across the UK over the past decade and explore the roots of the problem, including policing challenges, judicial inefficiencies, and societal factors. Dr. Newport shares his 8-point-plan for crushing crime, involving practical reforms, community involvement, and restoring public trust in the justice system.
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Could not the insurance companies sue the police departments or the government for each case the police did not investigate and thus incurred a cost to the insurance company for the insured item?
Does Britain not have a type of British securities and investments commission that investigates the performance of businesses, state and local government authorities and can enforce compensation and arrest of individuals when harm has occurred in the instance of failed duties?
What about fraud?
Deport.
Bring back the Bloody Code.
Wow, ironic that a lot of this came about from when Gover was Secretary of State for Justice and now he gets to publish content about his own failings.
Two stolen bicycles. Police could not care less. One of my clients, a mum with a smart electric, has had her bike nicked TEN times! We live in London. The only place I feel safe with my bike (I am a gardener with a trailer for my gear) is St John's Wood where the locals hire a private cop to patrol the street. Police don't like patroling alone even though their presence serves as a deterrent. Common sense.
It's hard for people to want the best for fellow citizens in s country committed to multiculturalism.
This whole country is unsustainable
The same criminals committing the same crimes – yes, corporate executives who commit fraud every day and are never charged, tried or punished.
Great point about fast feedback loops.
I understand traffic police are known as 'jury wreckers' by other police, as anyone who interacts with them has little faith in anything the police say, and is much more inclined to discount their verbal evidence and acquit.
The police of vice and virtue are likely to be even worse.
I usually despise the spectator and everything it stands for but fair enough this lad has done some very interesting research
Crimes starting to affect the rich so were now seeing it in the news. We all knew this years ago.
It's annoying how unengaged the interviewer seems to be with the topic. The guest makes a statement with what seems to be a lot of interesting background behind it, yet she just moves swiftly on to the next question each time as if it's some whimsical topic. "Ooh, bike theft!" I had my bike stolen last week and it has made my life much more taxing. Also, who are these people, a minority making up the majority of the crimes?
There are many small islands around the British Isles At least one of them is perfect for a colony of prisoners who will benefit from a tranquil environment where they are able to reflect, think about their lives, break with previous bad influences and if this new life has a few more challenges, they can reflect on how fortunate they were to be part of a mutually supporting community. By challenges, I suggest that a rather dull and unappetizing diet can be relieved by the the prisoner himself cultivating a plot of land, growing vegetables, perhaps even keeping a few chickens, goats even sheep, which would require some cooperative interaction with others. Bedding would be what my ancestors of one millenium ago would have used; vegetation
.Do gooders will condemn this idea as cruel. I think it could be idyllic if organized properly and a more humane way to heal damaged people than just locking them up.
Also, whilst on this island, security problems diminish and they cannot harm society.It would not cost the thousands per day that conventional prison is claimed to cost.
Aren't we all former academics?
I've worked retail off and on since 2018 and have intuitively known that theft was legal. It's immensely gratifying to see an intellectual who's actually interested in doing something about it.
Every law that is not enforced is not a law, merely a suggestion. Any crime that is not punished is legal. Any crime that is punished only with a fine is legal for a fee.
Courts are a joke in this country. I did jury duty last year and got 2 cases in my 10 days. One was a sexual assault that had been awaiting trial for 2 years. The second one showed me why I should never have anything to do with the police if I can help it. A woman was in court for stealing from a home she was hired to clean. Her case had come before the court 4 times, had juries disbanded. The defendant couldn't speak English, and the case was disbanded because one of the jurors had a panic attack, because she had a panic disorder which should have been disclosed before we were empanelled and she shouldn't have been made to serve jury duty. It's a MASSIVE time and money sink. Dozens of people coming to a courthouse and then having to leave and come back the next day and waste everyones time all over again. It should be fast, it should be effective. NOBODY is motivated to improve the service because the flow of shit never stops. It's a disgusting waste of taxpayers money. When you hear about police investigating journalists for non-crime hate incidents you start to think we are descending towards Soviet communism.
It’s much the same in New Zealand. It’s well and good to build more prisons but there is a lack of staff. Psychopathy is a crucial driver of antisocial behaviour. Psychopathy is at around 1% of the general population but contributes around 50% of the prison population. The forensic psychiatrist, Dr Bandy Lee, makes the alarming point that psychopathy costs society more than all other mental health disorders combined.
You’re right about Leicester not being very good.
"Singapore-on-Thames" 😊
Jail time for an opinion , probation for knife crime.
Mass deportations of immigrants who commit crime , 10,000 prison spaces are taken up by foreign nationals , close the border , clean out London of its extremists, the 30,000 illegals in hotels once in the community will be terrorising communities also , Britain will only get worse until this is all addressed , take responsibility for our own population after deporting the responsibility of the foreign nation immigrants that have invaded our land
Decriminalise recreational drugs and save the courts, police resources and prisons for actual criminals.