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@NickTorfaen is using the destestable rise in domestic abuse calls during the pandemic to advocate for a tough on crime approach, but this is ignoring the statistical data about how victims of domestic violence actually feel about police responses... https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labours-nick-thomas-symonds-wants-22426123
66% of victims who had called the police said they felt no safer for the police having arrived and 43% said they felt they had been discriminated against by the police. 2/3 victims were afraid to contact the police again.
http://www.thehotline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/NDVH-2015-Law-Enforcement-Survey-Report.pdf
http://www.thehotline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/NDVH-2015-Law-Enforcement-Survey-Report.pdf
80% of them felt police would do nothing and 51% said they were scared that calling the police would make the situation actually worse and horrifyingly 1/4 women victims said they had been threatened with or actually arrested when reporting an incident of abuse to the police.
There is a deeper issue here with how police respond to situations, whether they act as conflict de-escalators and whether it should be the police that respond to such incidents in the first place because *they are* failing victims - it won't be solved by more bobbies on the beat
@NickTorfaen also in the article says he supports "tougher sentences on various crimes and I am always willing to look at that for the deterrent effect" specifically when he is asked about knife crime.
Jesus Christ this is living in the 90s if I've ever seen it
Jesus Christ this is living in the 90s if I've ever seen it
TOUGHER SENTENCES DO NOT DETER CRIME
Even the BBC has covered this! https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180514-do-long-prison-sentences-deter-crime
Even the BBC has covered this! https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180514-do-long-prison-sentences-deter-crime
Labour is smashing it's head into a bastard brick wall if it keeps thinking that bobbies on the beat and tough on crime actually prevents crime. It doesn't.
There are *reasons* why Britain and America are creating overcrowding in prisons and Norway is closing theirs down.
There are *reasons* why Britain and America are creating overcrowding in prisons and Norway is closing theirs down.
For Labour to come out with this hot garbage before it announces anything on addressing the structural issues in society that lead people down a route of confrontation with the police (which has a myriad of deeply unfair and discriminatory factors) is appalling.
There's no new ideas here. It's just looking at the playbook of what did well in the Nineties or economic neoliberalism and cultural conservatism and thinking that's gonna do alright here.
Dear God - STOP TRYING TO RE-RUN THE 1992 US/1997 UK ELECTION. YOU DON'T WIN BY APPEALING TO CENTRISTS ANYMORE. YOU WIN BY MOBILISING YOUR BASE.
