NY Supercop’ has claimed that the “major issue” with rising crime in Britain is that the police are “resource starved”. Bill Bratton, who is jailed as one of the heroes who helped drive down New York’s crime rate, told LBC that: “A major issue in your country and particularly the Met…is that you are resource starved to be quite frank with you.
“You cannot expect to keep reducing your police services and expect them to continue to do more with less.
“We had a motto in the Los Angeles Police when I was there: ‘Too few, for too long had been asked to do too much with too little’.”
He argued strongly that authorities need to have the resources they require, saying: “I would argue on the basis on my experiences here in America, when properly resourced, when properly led, when properly controlled, police can have a dramatic effect on crime and disorder.
“You have to work on both, you can’t do one and isolate the other – if you do, you’re doomed to failure.”
Britain has seen drastic cuts to police resources. Greater Manchester police for instance have seen a £250 million cut and a loss of 2,000 officers – and violent crime is up 161%. You can’t do law and order on the cheap.