‘Let this change us as a nation’
As part of a comment on the murder of Rhys Jones, The Sun comments on the relative costs of more police and ID cards:
The numbers of police on the beat are a national scandal. It is little wonder armed gangs roam free when they fear nothing but other armed gangs.
Nine out of ten police are stuck behind a desk. This has to end. We need proper police. Not community support officers. Proper police, respected by the lawful majority, feared by the lawless. And many more of them too.
Doubling the current 130,000 will cost £4.2billion. It’s less than the Government will spend on ID cards and far less than the savings from the dramatic crime reduction which would surely follow.
