Britain announces another crackdown on anti-social behaviour
Good ideas jostle with bad ones
PLANS TO combat anti-social behaviour in Britain tend to elicit hollow laughter. Understandably so. Successive governments have introduced similar-sounding initiatives to tackle what is defined in law as behaviour “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress”, before quietly shelving them. And now there are fewer police officers around to tackle low-level crimes. The number providing the visible neighbourhood presence that might deter nuisance-makers has fallen over the past decade.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Neighbourhood watch”
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