Are the British police cuts a step in the right direction towards more liberty and human rights?

Help with a college essay please.


The government wants 10,000 fewer police officers, because public money is better saved or spent in other places rather than law enforcement.


Also its a very good sign that Britain is becoming much more tolerant and the answer to crime is education and tolerance. Throwing money in to policing is not only a waste it creates an intimidating society, people do not want to see armies of cops in our streets. Most of us in Britain agree that too much money is being spent on policing and prisons. As a socialist I have to the unthinkable and support the tories on their renewed more liberal attitude towards crime and punishment (but only on that issue!).





I think that crime eduction is much better than wasting money on policing. If people were to become more tolerant then that would reduce our fear frustration and anger of anti-social behavior, then we would not depend so much on police. The essence of being a liberal society and more like Sweden is with our tolerance and understanding.


Its nice to see Britain is taking steps which make it a much more liberal country. and it would be great one day for Britain to have the tolerance and liberty that we all envy in places like Sweden!





This is one of the very few conservative ideas I support.What are your opinions?|||I hate to dull the theme of your essay Simon, but I don't think the cuts of 10,000 police


officers has any connection to liberty and human rights. It will simply mean that most towns will have slightly less uniformed police to act as street social workers picking up the fighting and screaming drunks from their pile of vomit in the gutter|||Their numbers are being cut to save money and that is all. The Conservative government is cutting everything including new military aircraft that have just been built. Crime will rise as unemployment rises and there will be fewer police to cope with it and there will be more protests too. The UK is in for a heady five years of recession, crime and general depression.|||Sounds like you are trolling to me but for the record, the Conservatives do not wnat less Police constables but there cuts on the police force might actually mean that could happen.|||To be fair I haven't paid attention to political news lately, so when I briefly heard the headline about the police officer cuts I assumed it was simply part of the government's making spending cuts across the board to tackle this budget deficit. But you're explaining it as more to do with a change of political ideology regarding law and order.



You could literally get a whole essay in response to this question, even by just looking at one theoretical perspective. But basically I agree with you on the importance of education in tackling crime. Problems arise when young people feel education isn't providing a constructive purpose for them and when they conceive an adult life of poor career prospects. In the second half of the 20th century other countries were outperforming the UK in the provision of technical skills required by complex economies, because our schools were too rigid in their academic curriculum. The lower academic-achieving students were effectively treated as non starters.



With the current recession one in five 16-24 year olds who are not studying are now unemployed. The longer they remain out of work the more that employers will discriminate against/devalue them when weighing up job applicants. One source I read states that this trend is happening across Western Europe, but whether it's to the same degree I don't know. These young people are at risk of facing decades of poverty ahead of them - unlikely career progression or long-term unemployment coupled with a severe lack of affordable housing thanks to our insane property market. They will experience greater mental stresses from living in a society where the standard of living taken for granted by the generation above now seems so unattainable. A lot of parents appreciate the goal posts have changed and are subsidising their children into adulthood by letting them stay at home. It's a credit to this generation of young people (of which I am one) that the significant proportion at the bottom of the pile aren't contributing to a marked increase in theft, robbery or violence at present. It's amazing to see that they aren't more disillusioned and resentful of the situation. As for those who do lapse into criminality - the reasons for this have to be considered by the authorities and the necessary support given to allow them to better themselves in life.