The Public Safety Foundation
Writing in today’s Telegraph, our Founder explores what happens when political elites subscribe to naive ideas that you can tackle crime without locking people up:
“Westminster and Whitehall seem determined to favour the criminal over the law-abiding, just as they favour political correctness over public safety.
Why else would they permit groups to gather and pop open the champagne on prison grounds when thousands of individuals are being released early from prison?
What else explains the fact that the manifesto commitment in 2019 to introduce new targeted stop and search powers to tackle those already convicted of carrying weapons, ended up as a watered-down series of pilots in just four police forces aimed only at adults?
Why else would we have, over decades, consistently failed to adequately expand the prison system and failed to ensure that the prison regimes themselves were built on a foundation of control and order?
The simple truth that needs to be rammed home is that our political elites have, for decades, failed to properly value and prioritise public safety.”
