[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

Of course it doesn't work, otherwise we'd have politicians on TV on a weekly basis bragging about how they were reducing crime. It's also pathetic that we just accept it as though it's normal. We don't have lower crime rates than the rest of the world, we don't solve crime at higher rates than the rest of the world, so it can't be the case that those 2 things happen, yet CCTV works.

that's because the british justice system is ****ed in other ways, you don't put assholes in jail where they should be, instead you have a system that let's anti-social criminals off the hook, and says "if we just go lenient on them, they'll get better". You take them off the street for one night, and then put them back out on the streets the next day, so of course the crime rates don't go down, you just give them a bed to sleep in for the night and put them back out on the streets to do it the next week and the next over and over again. Take them off the streets and you'd see a drastic reduction in crime.

It's a cultural thing in Britain, where being anti-social and abusive is seen as "cool" and masculine. there is something very wrong with British culture that being a criminal is seen as "cool" and "punk" and anti-establishment.