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Justice and Crime
Crime is one of the biggest issues facing the country. It is far too high and too many people don't feel safe - in their own homes and in their town centres. The Liberal Democrats want to cut crime to make you safer.
For too long the debate about policing and criminal justice policy has been centred around what sounds tough rather than what works to cut crime. Labour and the Tories have become embroiled in a sentencing arms race in a bid to pander to tabloid newspaper editors and to exploit a politics of fear. As well as putting 10,000 more police officers on the beat by scrapping ID cards, the Liberal Democrats are committed to meaningful reform of the police service and to putting criminal justice policy on an evidence-based footing. These proposals were outlined in our Cutting Crime by Catching Criminals paper in September.
Labour's catastrophic mismanagement of the criminal justice system has led to prisons bursting at the seams; the creation of over 3,600 new criminal offences since 1997; and an unprecedented criminilisation of our children. Instead of using prison and sentencing as a proxy for real action on crime, the Liberal Democrats will use alternative measures that are proven to reduce re-offending. These include community justice panels, the nationwide use of restorative justice and rigorous community punishments as an alternative to short-term prison sentences. These ideas were outlined in our youth justice paper A Life Away from Crime in July.
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Liberal Democrats outline radical police and criminal justice reformsMon, 08 Sep 2008The Liberal Democrats today accused both Labour and the Conservatives of ducking the hard decisions on police reform in favour of a sentencing arms race, as they launched their proposals for fundamental reform of the way the police are run. |
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Liberal Democrats outline youth crime proposalsThu, 07 Aug 2008Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne, today accused both Labour and the Conservatives of "falling over each other to be tough on crime" as he promoted his party's new plans for stopping young people from committing crimes. |
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Liberal Democrats back plans to safeguard personal freedom and privacyWed, 17 Sep 2008The Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference today passed plans to safeguard personal liberty and privacy in the face of unprecedented collection of personal data by central Government, and a number of large-scale failures of data protection. |
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