The UK's police haven't solved a single robbery in 8 out of 10 neighborhoods in the past 3 years but they have been more than happy to spend time monitoring social media and charging people for thought crimes.
May be part of it, but from what I've been reading it is also the case that the UK criminal justice system has been severely underfunded at every level — police, lawyers, courts, prisons, and parole — for a while now.
Maybe, maybe not, but I'd take many of these claims with a grain of salt. I'm pretty sure that in the entire history of bureaucracy, you're not going to find too many organizations that claim that they're overfunded.
That's all about burglary; I'd sooner be burgled than mugged.
And all the links in that Telegraph article seem to be to other Telegraph articles. It's not clear who these "victim's watchdogs" are. It's not clear what they mean by "neighbourhood".
And you seem to be relying on the Tory house newspaper.
>I agree it's disgusting how the Labour house newspaper and state broadcaster have ignored this.
The "state broadcaster" would presumably be broadcasting material favourable to the state. Perhaps you didn't notice, but Labour has been out of power for a decade.
The Labour house newspaper is generally said to be The Guardian. AFAICT they represent the extreme right of the Labour Party. As such, you'd expect them to be wittering on about crime statistics, and they aren't; so you have a point.
But this isn't a new thing; solving burglaries has been a problem for decades. There's no news here, so move along - BBC and Guardian, there's nothing to report.
> The "state broadcaster" would presumably be broadcasting material favourable to the state. Perhaps you didn't notice, but Labour has been out of power for a decade.
This is so disingenuous. The government doesn’t edit stories for the bbc. The right has been complaining about the bias of the bbc for years.
> The right has been complaining about the bias of the bbc for years.
Everyone complains about the bias of news organisations. It's true that most people working in news have some kind of liberal arts degree, and have leftish proclivities. But anyone with their eyes open can see that the BBC is strongly biased to the government of the day (10 years of Tory rule, and counting), and strongly biased toward the establishment (judges, rich people, royals, corporations).
I didn't say the government edits BBC stories; you've imputed words to me that I didn't utter. If you want "disingenuous", that's disingenuous.
