left realism

• Policies to reduce inequality - left realists call for major structural change to tackle discrimination, inequality of opportunity and unfairness of rewards, and to provide good jobs and housing for all. This would reduce relative deprivation which is the main cause of crime
• Democratic policing - the police are losing public support, especially in poorer areas where they are widely distrusted. Their flow of information is up and they have to rely on military policing like stop and search creating further loss of cooperation
• To winback public support the police must involve local communities in deciding their priorities. They must focus on crimes that victimise the disadvantages such as domestic violence and hate crimes rather than offences such as possession of soft drugs.
• • Neighbourhood policing and police community support officers (PCSOs) have been introduced to build better relationships with communities
• Domestic violence and hate crime are now a high priority
• Many forces now make cannabis possession a low priority crime
• Multi agency approach - left realists argue that crime control must involve many other agencies apart from the police, schools, youth services, housing departments, social services, the probation services and NHS. local councils can improve facilities for young people to provide alternative to crime 
• No Knives Better Lives - an example of a multi-agency joined up approach aimed at reducing knife crime. This involved a wide range of agencies, including schools, local councils, leisure and youth services, and voluntary organisations as well as the police.
• New labour policies - some of the policies advocated by left realists reflect the approach of the New Labour governments from 1997 to 2010 which aimed to be tough on crime though on the causes of crime.
•  Labour invested in improvements to deprived neighbourhoods through the communities that care programme and example of being tough on the causes of crime