Since the election was announced I've been religiously (OK, occasionally) checking for crime and policing stories to comment on. But there don't seem to be any! Except for a less than stirring defence of the Tory's plan for elected police chiefs from Philip Blond (rightly being opposed by ACPO, I note), and some rather desultory sniping from Labour about the DNA database there's been very little.
Is it just me missing stuff? Or is crime a bit of a non-issue in this election, up until now at least? If so, why? I guess one reason might be the paper thin differences between the main parties on most issues - although that hasn't stopped them going at it hammer and tongs about who will cut the most, which hardly bespeaks massive policy differences elsewhere.
Surely it can't be a nascent sense of perspective about the relevant importance of crime compared with other issues? You know, jobs, education, health, saving the planet, stuff like that. Actually, probably not, given the continued utter lack of perspective (or indeed truth) about immigration in the tabloids and the complete absence of green issues from the election debate ....
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...perhaps it's because not only the political parties don't differ much in their policing policies, but also left and right wing people apparently don't differ in their fear of crime or their confidence in the police...at least JJ efforts to find an effect have so far all been in vain.
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