11,500 Police Jobs have gone since the coalition took power and as predicted Poverty Crime is on the rise though not necessarily seen in statistics. Britain’s frontline police officers state that even though crime is rising up in the country, fewer offences are being reported and investigated because of cutbacks and a lack of faith in the judicial system. When people cannot feed themselves or their children, when they cannot heat their homes or afford the rent. When they are fined by Councils for being unable to pay initially only one thing will occur - crime will rise. Our system is setup to make criminals of the poor, the further into poverty one gets the more you are willing to accept possible punishment for trying to stay alive. The choice between crime or dying is an easy choice to make. Cut backs will affect both sides of Law and order and how can one not feel sympathy for Mothers stealing baby food or a man stealing to warm his family, this occurring whilst Tories claim expenses to heat their horses stables or for a 31p pack of staples. The working classes,the unemployed, the disabled are being driven to despair, suicide in way too many cases and more join them daily. News today of Barrets Shoes & Blockbuster losing 3000 jobs and Flybe shedding 500. The situation can only grow worse under the present Government, there is an old saying if you have nothing - you have nothing to lose. Our poor have nothing. Yet there will always be plenty of Police on hand to protect MPs when confronted by dissident group DPAC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crime rate rising in UK due to welfare cuts: Police A British police and crime commissioner has warned that the level of crime in the United Kingdom is going up due to recent government spending cuts. The home secretary [Theresa May] is saying that crime is falling even though weve had all the budget cuts. Shes wrong; it isnt,” Alan Charles, the Labour Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire Constabulary, said on Sunday. He added, “What were finding now predominantly in areas of higher deprivation, with the benefit cuts that the government have inflicted on people who are not in work and are claiming benefits etc, crime is starting to go up.” Charles went on to say that crimes such as shoplifting, theft from vehicles and non-domestic burglaries are on the rise in the UK. One of my commissioner colleagues described these as poverty crimes and I think its a very good description. Its not to say Im condoning it by any means at all, but it explains why this is happening, he stated. Latest police figures show that crime rose 3 percent between April 1 and November 6 this year in Britain compared to the corresponding period last year. The data further noted that 32,394 crimes had taken place during the aforesaid eight-month period in 2013 in comparison with 31,587 counts in the same period of the preceding year. Britain’s frontline police officers state that even though crime is rising up in the country, fewer offences are being reported and investigated because of cutbacks and a lack of faith in the judicial system. “The Office for National Statistics portrays a picture of reported crime but we believe a lot of crimes still goes unreported. Historically recessions have always produced an increase in crime. We would be surprised if in fact the real level of crime is not rising,” Steve White, Vice Chairman of the Police Federation, said. There have reportedly been 11,500 police job cuts since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in Britain came to power in May 2010. The number of police officers in England and Wales now stands at 132,235. Moreover, just under a third of police stations in England and Wales have been shuttered or are about to be closed. presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/10/333997/welfare-cuts-pushing-uk-crime-rate-up/
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