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Crime
Despite numerous government initiatives, the present system of crime control is failing. We live in an increasingly surveillance-based society and yet are more fearful than ever. The police are given more and more powers, but seem even more distant from the communities they serve. The Green Party believes we need to address the social causes of crime so that crimes and criminals are not able to flourish in the first place.
Policies on crime should go hand in hand with those on education, social care, health, economics and housing. Some who commit offences need supervision, but we want a society to prevent crime not just punish, a society where
offenders make reparation to the victims and where the police are fully accountable to the people they serve.
The Green Party
will:
• Ensure that police officers spend more time working in local communities, focussing on crime prevention as much as detection.
• Reduce the threat of crime by keeping public spaces well maintained and increasing resources for caretakers,
attendants and staff on estates, railways stations, parks and other public areas.
• Where appropriate, bring offenders together with victims so that they are made aware of their impact on people’s lives, and, where possible, can make reparation for their crimes.
• Tackle drug-related crime by increasing provision of treatment for addiction and breaking the link between drugs and criminal activity.
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