Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Friday, 15 March 2019

Targeting works (which is why ASBOs and PSPOs are ineffective, lazy, divisive policing)

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"Broken window" theory (or, to use its pompous operational name, "order maintenance policing") is the idea that lies beh...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Is terrorism more driven by identity than extremist ideology?

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How do you define, in the context of free speech, extremism? Is extremism a belief, opinion or world view beyond arbitrarily defined societa...
Saturday, 5 January 2019

Don't lock 'em up - prison doesn't work

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It is an understandable response to crime - lock 'em up, throw away the key. The problem is that this visceral desire to punish doesn...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Immigrants (even illegal ones) don't commit more crimes...

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Of course, you all know this (just as you knew immigrants are more likely to work, pay a higher proportion of earnings in tax, are less like...
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Thursday, 1 November 2018

It seems it's now policy not to make arrests (or a clip round the ear)

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Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke That gets us out of hand. Our mothers all are ju...
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Sunday, 27 May 2018

Unpopularism (some policy thoughts for conservatives)

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There's a media caricature of conservatism as being a sort of red-faced, reactionary creed. And, at times, we do sound like the angry ...
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Monday, 9 April 2018

Crime and gentrification...

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We were all utterly shocked to discover that, for the first part of 2018, the rate of murder in London was worst than that once Capital of...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

In the end bans usually make things worse - the case of cigarettes

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The problem with banning things is that it seldom stops them. Even when you take the sort of extreme and violent steps we've seen recent...
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Tuesday, 12 May 2015

The most striking thing about these figures is how low they are...

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**** Bradford's Telegraph & Argus has revealed the findings from a 'freedom of information' request relating to the number...
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Friday, 13 March 2015

Crime down, drinking down but more licenced premises. Hogan Howe is talking authoritarian rubbish.

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**** The Hillsborough enquiry reveals how police called for dogs rather than ambulances and every new day reveals another example of the p...
Monday, 22 December 2014

"Yet in thy dark streets shineth, The everlasting Light." - thoughts on crime and streetlighting.

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**** It's the longest night of the year (or pretty close to it) so what better choice of subject for a Labour Party press release than...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Beaten up simply for being an old soldier. That is what we mean by extremism folks.

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**** Imagine the outcry, the calls for new laws and the accusations of hate crime that would accompany an attack by white skinheads on a M...
Thursday, 14 August 2014

Quote of the day: on race and crime

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**** Anyone who thinks that race does not still, even if inadvertently, skew the application of criminal justice in this country is just...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

The consequence of prohibition is always crime

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**** Bhutan banned tobacco. They're about to repeal that ban (h/t Chris Snowdon ): Now the country’s Upper House resolves that ban...
Saturday, 11 January 2014

A reminder of the effect of protectionism...

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**** Amidst all the nannying fussbucketry about sugar, I stumbled on a consequence of making the evil white stuff more expensive: ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014

In which I agree with George Monbiot

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**** I promise this won't become a common occurrence but George is absolutely right about the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policin...
Friday, 20 December 2013

Bogus booze and fake fags...

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**** Prices soar thanks to the government's ravenous desire for our cash and the urging of the Church of Public Health to ban everythi...
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Thursday, 28 November 2013

More crime, more smokers, fewer jobs - hey let's do it! The story of plain packs for cigarettes.

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I heard an interview on the radio about plain packs for cigarettes. The public health doctor being interviewed (I forget his name, they al...
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Thursday, 31 October 2013

It's Hallowe'en so we get some nonsense about rural crime from the Country Land & Business Association...

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**** We're always that October and November are peak months for burglary - lots of stuff about the clocks going back and the nights dr...
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