We are being robbed of our Cops by Coalition cuts. Just by totting up the Force reductions announced by Police Authorities across the Nation Labour has estimated that we could lose over 10,000 Officers across the board. Good news for robbers, bad news for the rest of us.
I had tabled a proposal at the last Erewash Full Council meeting to get Erewash to stand up against the cuts. However Councillor Corbett threw a hissy fit and abandoned the meeting part way through thereby avoiding the issue.
These reductions will mean more crime, less detection and prevention, higher insurance costs and more accidents on the roads. Instead of paying for good Policing we will pay through the back door for the costs of crime. Less well off people will be disproportionately effected because they tend to live in the areas where the most crimes are committed. So yet again we are not "all in it together".
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