Tackling Crime

• Kinsey, Lea and Young 1986: police clear up rates are too low to act as a deterrent and police spend too little time investigating. Public must become more involved in determining the police's priorities and style of policing.
• Military Police:

  1. police are losing public support specifically in inner cities
  2. flow of information (90% of crimes) dries up
  3. reliance on military policing
• Military Policing Pt2:

  4. police swamp areas and use random stop and search

  5. alienated communities

  6. results in vicious circle
• Police must be made accountable to local communities and deal with local concerns
• Crime cannot be left to police alone rather a multi-agency approach is needed
• Must tackle inequality of opportunity and improve communities to lower crime rates
• we must become more tolerant of diveristy and cease stereotyping
• New Labour: 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime'
• Young: New Labour ASBO's did not recreate community and just adressed symptoms rather than causes of crime