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BBC Protecting Blair on Crime

April 29, 2005 -- The Society for Action Against Crime has repeatedly asked BBC programme editors - and individual presenters and interviewers - to pose specific questions on crime, particularly in respect of New Labour's failure to honour their "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" promises.



Now, after almost 8 years and 3 Home Secretaries, Britain is still suffering 50 million unsolved crimes to which a further 10 million plus are being added each year.



This Society knows why. We also know how the annual 10 million crimes could quickly come down below 5 million, then continue to decline, albeit more slowly



Despite our continually keeping the BBC appraised of our work, and proposing that they should question our politicians in greater depth, they studiously avoid disturbing the status quo. By their failure, they are helping to condemn the British public to another 5 years of high crime and the BBC has not once challenged Tony Blair on the pathetic aspiration in his manifesto to bring down crime by only 15% by 2008. Nor has the BBC relayed to either their viewers or listeners, this Society's attempts to highlight the encouragement which is being given to criminals by the paucity of prison places.



Britain has only 75,000 prison places, so the BBC should be asking where Tony Blair would put the hundreds of thousands of villains if only 1% more of the 50 million backlog of crimes get solved. Just 1% is 500,000 people, to many of whom the Courts would wish to give custodial sentences, so why is the BBC not quizzing the Government on this.



Unless we have many more prisons, it is pointless bothering to try to solve crime because there is simply nowhere to put the villains when caught and convicted.



The criminals are well aware of this, which is just one reason why we are condemned to suffer such incredibly high levels of crime.



Peter Winstanley-Brown

on behalf of

The Society for Action Against Crime Ltd.

A not-for-profit N.G.O.

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