'We cannot 'just magic' police officers'.

Really how did the Home Secretary and now PM make 20% of police officers disappear wasn't that by magic?

A meaningful presence on the beat and especially at youth level are essentials that Tony and Gordon understood and 'tough on crime and its causes. was a successful policy by labour.

But the tories just can't stand that, for them austerity, saving money, are an end in itself.

We are seeing the the results now after years of not listening to the police themselves.

We need to re-open and improve on the youth centres that have closed and prohibit the carrying of knives, we managed it with guns.

But the meaningful presence of police officers on the beat is something beyond value, even in Croydon High St the sight of a police officer is as rare as an osprey.

I think the tories have been very clever, hoodwinked the public into thinking the EU and immigration was to blame for all our ills so they could mug us off and slash our services, just a shame too many narrow minded people are conned by it. Police, schools and NHS creaking under chronic underfunding and millions trapped in poverty. Now the country is fast descending into a war zone but how bad does it need to get?

Paua oouaarancì Irà chiyeah Ishé galé ma ba oo ah

I would think that funding cuts and cuts in police numbers have caused a rise in violent crime. However, the main perpetrators of this violence, and the victims, seem to be largely and disproportionately from the black community. It also seems that recent immigration - particularly from Somalia and similar - has meant a rise in knife crime. Plenty of people have written about it and given statistics.
It seems hard for people to admit this and talk about it - due to the current politics surrounding race. Perhaps the first thing the government could consider is an open and honest discussion about these issues.
I would think that there are a complicated mixture of causes and left, right and identity politics all have a version of events to suit their own narratives. This is an urgent issue that needs the politics to be left out of it and a realistic solution to be found.

Red and Blue Army!

Whilst not exclusively, these are in general problems created by the black community. This is not racist opinion. Its fact which stats back up.

You don't get these problems on the streets of East Grinstead, Guildford or Horsham.

You don't find large numbers of Indians, Jews, Irish or Poles stabbing each other.Just the black community.

You can blame the Tories or anyone else you like however its not them taking 3 inches of steel and shoving it in someones neck.

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

There was no descent into racialism or obscure left-right arguments such as you see here, with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

They just got on with the job of making our society safer by being tough on crime and its causes.

And it worked.

The useful idiots of the Left.

Programmed to screw themselves.