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Crime Reduction

It is striking that the Home Secretary has not yet mentioned the point trailed in the media this morning, that Britain is unique in the degree to which the fear of crime outpaces the reality of crime. I wonder why she has not mentioned that. Could it be that the Government are partly to blame for that situation, especially as the whole basis of new Labour’s strategy on crime is never to be outbid by the Conservative party or the Daily Mail? Is it not time to replace the strategy of having ““no enemies on the right”” with a new strategy that bases criminal justice policy on the evidence, rather than on prejudice?