Priorities wrong

The Home Secretary has announced that "police in England and Wales are to have targets on minor offences relaxed" so that they can concentrate on violent, particulalrly knife, crime, according to BBC News. This is not the way to do it. Yes, increase the spending on dealing with violent crime: add the metal detectors and do the advertising. But not at the expense of the ordinary, everyday policing: the traffic offences, the anti-social behaviour, the burglaries.

Here's a radical idea: spend more.