If demand exceeds supply you have to ration resources. You can’t reduce police resources & then criticise them for not doing everything. For same reason, frontline officers are being prevented from delivering the service they want to give & then they’re being criticised. Unfair.
What evidence do you have that increase in violent crime is not due to a reduction in police resources?
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I'm slightly incredulous to be asked that question in return from a serving politician and Liberal Democrat. Progress is made on hypotheses, study, numbers, evidence - not on hunches and anecdote. Good governance, science, use of resources. This isn't a tit for tat conversation.
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A reasonable hypothesis is one that provides a strong & simple explanation for the observation. It stands unless & until there is evidence to disprove it or there is a stronger or simpler hypothesis. In the absence of an alternative or evidence, my hypothesis stands. Your move.
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Wow. I think it's best left there if you have no evidence. Disappointed in standards of our democracy. Not against fair resourcing. Far from it. Against polarised debate and spending based on anecdote without statistical causation evidence . "Your move" I'd expect from Trump.
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How about when you removed police dog patrols from Brixton as you deemed them racist when
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Interesting if true but it isn’t. I didn’t want static dogs deployed at top of escalators at Brixton tube as I was getting too many complaints. It was also 16 years ago! Never banned dog patrols in Lambeth. Very useful bit if kit.
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