Sentences with phrase «more police on the streets»

We can build more prisons and put more police on the streets, and we will.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the government should scrap its identity card plans and use the freed - up funding to pay for more police on the streets.

«I don't believe we need more police on the street.

Putting 1,000 more police on the street makes Londoners safer for all.»

As ever police officers have shown incredible bravery on our streets in confronting these thugs but it's quite clear we need much more police on our streets and even more robust action.

Labour is promising to put 10,000 more police on the streets of England and Wales if it wins the election, to be paid for by reversing Conservative plans in the 2016 Budget for capital gains tax cuts.

Mr Grieve said: «Conservatives would deploy more police on the streets to catch and deter violent offenders, ensure more prison places so that serious violent offenders who should be in jail are in jail and tackle the long term causes of crime which lead to so much tragic violence.»

Mayor Lovely Warren says the budget allows for more police on the streets and lowers tax rates; she says it provides the second lowest business tax rate in almost 20 years.

He won't let Theresa May take any of the credit for the decision to get more police on the streets.

However, be advised that there will be more police on the streets to supplement the return of the buses.

If you want to have more police on the streets, more accountable police, if you want to have tougher sentences for knife crime, or if, as a former Lib Dem voter, you think we need to do more to reform our prisons to increase rehabilitation, to allow new organisations to come into the criminal justice system — all those things have been pioneered by the modern Conservative party.»

Squinting into a bright noon sun, the former LaFayette School Superintendent reiterated the main talking points that have defined her candidacy up to now: more police on the streets to fight crime, mayoral control over a struggling school district, and ethics reform.

Mr Clegg argued for more police on the streets, while the Labour leader stressed that, although crime was falling, more needed to be done.

More police on the streets may help cut down on the crime rate, sure, but a 2015 report from the Brennan Center for Justice showed that locking people up only drains resources from other potential solutions — including providing educational opportunities to pursue.