Ask yourself if some of the long - running and notorious miscarriages of justice which have come to light in recent years would have taken so long to resolve if
campaigning police and crime commissioners had been in place, subjecting themselves to the judgement of the people every four years.
Ed Miliband is set to turn this November's
police and crime commissioner elections into an effective referendum on the coalition's law
and order policies -
and has the
campaigning power of John Prescott on his side.