KK wrote:You’ll see Khan on Twitter blaming the government, and the government respond by blaming Khan. And back and forth they go..
So Lotus is wrong that Khan is silent on crime?
Still remember how Boris was always on the phone to Osborne and May demanding more money for policing (and getting it). In fact he had so much money he pissed some of it up the wall on water cannons.
That just adds evidence to the problem being with the government rather than the Mayor. The Conservative Mayor of London was given money by the Conservative government, whereas the Labour Mayor of London isn’t?
But at least he delivered on one of the core principles of the Conservative party: law and order.
Law and order being one of the core principles of the Conservative party has not been true for decades. Cameron and May’s governments have imposed austerity and massive cuts to the police (Johnson begging his colleagues for money may be the exception there). Correlation might not be causation, but it’s pretty clear that cutting police numbers and police budgets is hardly going to lead to a crime free capital city.
The priorities are also all wrong. If you’re limited in resources, which they clearly are, then surely it’s common sense to stop focussing so much of it on social media offences and something that may have happened in 1969.
I don’t know what you mean by 1969, are we talking about Operation Yewtree? If so, then I think it is absolutely right to investigate and prosecute child molesters. I don’t give a gooseberry fool how long ago it was.
I doubt social media offences take too many resources, check Twitter, spot the racist hate crime, knock on the door. Done.
Giving the police the proper resources would mean that they could cut down on physical crime
and virtual crimes.