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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
Tag, track, watch, analyse- UK goes mad on crime and terror IT Tech-happy UK Home Secretary David Blunkett was in his element announcing the Home Office's Strategic Plan yesterday. At multiple levels, starting with satellite tracking of repeat- and minor offenders and moving swiftly on through DNA databases and sundry terror- and immigrant-detection equipment, the plan proposes to harness new technology "to maximise key opportunities" and "stay ahead of the criminal." Sort of like the Jetsons with shackles.
The Register
9:35:38 AM 
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As David Blunkett claims a rise in binge drinking is helping to breed a culture of 'thuggery and intimidation' new research from the University of Warwick reveals that rather than originating the 1960s binge drinking was rife in the 1660s. What's more, it was religious Anglicans, demonstrating their loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War that initiated heavy drinking.
News-Medical-Net
9:35:07 AM
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Senior figures from businesses and the public sector could be appointed to run police forces, a report suggests.
They could also enter at superintendent or chief superintendent level to head some of the more than 400 Basic Command Units across England and Wales.
Schemes should be set up to "tap into the wealth of experience and talent" in other professions, the Inspectorate of Constabulary report suggests.
BBC
9:34:32 AM
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Our society has not the least notion of quite how much of a sledgehammer blow a prison sentence is. The fact that the prison population continues to grow merely emphasises how ignorant we generally are of the costs incurred, both budgetary and social.
Imprisonment has the effect, intended or not, of smashing family arrangements and obliterating other social support networks among those already more socially impoverished than most. Miscarriages of justice rub extra salt into this, one of society's more grievous wounds.
Guardian
9:34:04 AM
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So, Tony Blair regards the last seven years of law and order policy as "liberal"? (Liberal law and order days over, says Blair, July 19). He must be forgetting that during his tenure the prison population has continued its exponential rise, with overcrowding now affecting the majority of prisons. Suicides are up, prison education is down, and prisons can't recruit or retain staff.
Guardian
9:33:25 AM
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Updated: 29/7/04; 9:01:39 am.
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