Crime Tsunami? Options

[Guest_noobree_*]

I think I read in the NWN recently that crime rates in Newbury had increased by 30% in the last year.

I've never been one to argue that simply having more police presence is the solution because life's more complicated than that. It's impossible for the police to be everywhere and there are lots of arguments against the idea of having more coppers on the beat discourages criminals (e.g. they can see the boys and girls in uniform just as easily as we can and they just lie low until the area is clear).

However, the constant drip of burglaries seems to be worsening by the day. Maybe not a Tsunami yet (where we lived before we were burgalled 3 times and that was par for the course) but something bad is happening. And down here south of the river we rarely see either police on the beat.

My guess is that TVP concentrate their personpower in Reading and other hotspots and that leafy Newbury gets a bad deal.

Are there any pf the girls and boys in blue on here who could shed some anonymous light on the problem? Maybe the whole thing has been caused by Neigbourhood Action Groups - crime has certainly rocketed since they were established!!