Boris Johnson plans to hire 20,000 new police officers and beef up their powers to combat rising crime
LORRAINE BLISS is ready for the onslaught. “They’ll all be down here in the next few weeks,” she says, with a hint of resignation. The charity she runs, St Edmunds Society, which gives vocational training to disadvantaged youngsters, sits just outside Norwich North, among the most marginal of Britain’s 650 constituencies. Chloe Smith, the incumbent Tory MP, won only 507 more votes than her Labour rival at the last election. Both parties are flooding the seat with activists.
This might not have troubled voters much had crime rates continued a long decline that began in the mid-1990s. Yet, whereas overall rates have stayed stable, violent crime has jumped. Newspapers talk excitably of “Wild West Britain”. There are many explanations for the surge, including the emergence of the county-lines model. But police and opposition MPs have blamed the budget cuts. And voters have clocked that overstretched cops are falling behind.
As recently as early 2016, only 8% of those polled by Ipsos mori said that crime was a hot topic, the lowest score since 1991. Now 22% say so, making it the third-most-important theme, behind Brexit and health care. In talking so much about it, Mr Johnson is gambling that voters will credit him for his tough stance while forgiving or forgetting the cuts made by his predecessors.
Ms Davis says relatively harmless local weed-dealers have been replaced by county-lines operations flogging £10 bags of crack cocaine, with free samples of heroin thrown in. Adjusted for population, heroin now kills more people in Norwich than in London or Manchester. One secondary-school teacher regrets that most of his 13-year-old pupils know all about drugs paraphernalia and slang for weapons.
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