Cut the price of crime

The Police have been ordered by the Government to shave 480 million pounds of  next years budget, by shave they mean cut and the only way that will happen is to cut frontline services, to you and me that means less Police out in the streets. We already have in many Towns and City’s across the Country the ridiculous state of affairs where Police stations close at certain times of the day and night, if  criminals stuck to a schedule this would not be a problem, unfortunately they don’t, crime is a bit haphazard, rather like the  Government  policy toward law and order. In case anybody at Westminster hadn’t noticed we are in the grip of a recession, traditionally crime rises at these times, I know it sounds obvious to  point this out but as people lose jobs and have money problems they can turn to crime. £480 million pounds is a lot of money, but it will ultimately cost more than that to catch prosecute and house in prison the increased number of offenders these cuts will produce. We lurch from bad to worse in this Country at the moment, roll on a general election so we can at least have a change, even if it proves not to be for the better a change is needed desperately.