Law and Disorder

Gadget highlights a problem that is all too common in communities around the UK, his article is here.

Government interference by sentencing guidelines, pleas by Ministers not to imprison, inaction and attempted slight of hand is eroding our society and the safety of law abiding citizens.

WYP plans to close the police station in Pontefract and in the process threatens the viability of the Magistrates court by removing local holding facilities.

By removing that option they are also increasing the likelihood of reoffending by many of those who give no regard for others.

Whilst this goes on there are civil servants tasked with arranging to support the fallacy that people are imagining crime and by police officers tasked with correcting and reclassifying crimes away to meet government targets and using alternate charges to make the governments flawed 2003 licencing Act and its impact on the "night time economy" look less stupid.