us older folk will all remember the 'beat bobby', where every estate had a couple of cop houses with a jail in between, they knew every resident and their kin going back at least a couple of generations...you did not want to get on the wrong side of them and certainly did not want them going to your door, many a quick 'cuff' across the ear was taken instead of a vist to the parents but you grew up to respect them, older folks welcomed the peace they created.
what have we got now?... all those houses were sold off years ago, stations are closing down, paper work became almost impossible and made catching criminals a complete waste of resources then when they eventually get someone to court, up pops a solicitor with a hard luck story and every trick in the book to get an easy sentence or a fine.
shop workers are told to just stand and watch shoplifters now, possibly down to compen if they get injured or if the criminal gets injured...just be lucky we still have plenty of honest people around...jail should mean 'hard time', it should be a place no one wants to go back to, we should have more bobbies on the beat rather than someone shooting around in a car that they cannot chase anyone in, schools need to go back to proper education with home economics for the lasses and wood/metal work for the lads and i dont care how 'sexist' that is, it all has to start somewhere, top it off with wages that mean working is beneficial and finish it by reducing the abuse of power and 'legalised stealing' by those at the top.
