There's no getting away from it, Britain has become a soft touch on crime! We learned yesterday that the Prevent program, designed to tackle the huge threat of terrorism, has more or less overlooked the main issue - Islamic fundamentalism - which, to give you a quick elevator pitch, stands for the total obliteration of the West. Charming.
Given the disproportionate threat this toxic ideology poses to all British citizens, it's shocking but not surprising that just 16% of cases referred by Prevent relate to Islamism. It seems the authorities are happy to let ISIS plot more human devastation for fear of offending anyone or being accused of Islamophobia. Britain is clearly a soft touch when it comes to organised grooming gangs, which is the subject of a stunning new GB News documentary that airs on Saturday at 8 pm. Essentially, vulnerable young women have been abused, raped, and exploited by men. These men have evaded justice in spite of warnings from the local community and victims because the authorities don't want to be called racist. So they'd rather let young girls continue to get raped instead. Brilliant.
This country is a soft touch on burglary, with just 6% of burglaries leading to an arrest last year in England and Wales. 6% for a shocking and invasive crime. Based on that statistic, burglary has effectively been decriminalised. The same is true for rape, domestic abuse, and sexual assault, which are shockingly under-reported. 6.3 million crimes were reported last year - this is out of control. Just think of the number not reported. Stabbings have become the norm, with drug gangs controlling their own postcodes and residents living in terror and afraid to leave the house after dark.
But right now, it's not working. And sentencing is a problem too, with the likes of evil paedophile Gary Glitter getting out of prison halfway through his 16-year sentence. How do his victims feel about that?
Today, we saw a lot of pearl-clutching from the media and political elite about Tory MP Lee Anderson's suggestion that we should bring back capital punishment for the worst crimes.
Who could blame him? He wants things to change. He's not talking about a parking ticket here; this is evil mass murderers who cannot be rehabilitated. There is a strong argument to be made that they sacrifice their own life when they take someone else's.
Look at this chart demonstrating how bad crime has become compared to a century ago. It shows the rates of recorded offences per 100,000 people, so it's adjusted for population size. And the rates of crime are through the roof.
Chart showing recorded offences per 100,000 people in England and Wales during the 20th century
House of Commons library
Welcome to hell. As journalist Ed West has pointed out, there averaged just 400 street robberies a year nationally during the 1930s (when absolute poverty was much higher than now). In the year 2000, in Lambeth, just one of London's 32 boroughs, there were 8000 street robberies. So that's 400 nationwide in the 1930s, compared to 8,000 in one London borough in the year 2000.
Brits go about their lives now expecting to be victims of crime. They expect their phone to be snatched from their hand as they walk down the street, their homes to be broken into, and their car, motorbike, or bicycle to be stolen at any moment. The expectation that the police will do anything about these crimes is close to zero. People I know who have been victims of crime often don't even report it these days, as it all feels so hopeless. Woke policing, which would rather attend to a supposed offensive Facebook post, is letting real criminals off the hook, which is a crime in itself.
We need more police officers, more prisons, tougher punishments, and a culture in which those who break the law face a genuine fear of getting caught. Being safe is a human right and should be the expectation of any civilised country. Britain should be one of the safest countries in the world, and it used to be, but it's turning into a lawless hellhole! It's time for the police to step up and start tackling real crime. It's also time for underperforming police chiefs to be taken in for questioning. They have no right to remain silent.