The Liberal Democrats today accused both Labour and the Conservatives of ducking the hard decisions on police reform in favour of a sentencing arms race, as they launched their proposals for fundamental reform of the way the police are run.The ideas, outlined in the paper Cutting Crime: Catching Criminals With Better Policing, highlight the urgent need to move the criminal justice debate away from...

Where to being on this post. What do you consider to be criminal activity?. Do you believe that the police should be keeping a database of Criminal Activity?.Do you believe that political protest is a criminal activity?

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau.

Commenting on today’s report from criminal justice watchdogs. which exposes the excessive bureaucracy involved in the way the police, probation, courts and other agencies work together to handle wanted criminals, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Spokesperson, David Howarth said: "This is ridiculous. These jobsworth attitudes must go and the whole of the criminal justice system has to work tog...

Fewer crimes being investigated by police fewer criminals being taken to court when they are actually apprehended.

The ideas, outlined in the paper Cutting Crime: Catching Criminals With Better Policing, highlight the urgent need to move the criminal justice debate away from what sounds tough to what actually works, with a shift away from prison towards policing and detection. The main proposals include: Reviewing the police contract including lifetime employment for 30 years, the single point of entry and pay...

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary has said.

Criminals can now be reported to the police on Facebook under a new scheme.

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary claims.

Glenn Reynolds links to a video interview of numerous Louisiana citizens whose property was stolen by the police and sometimes destroyed. It was a time when that property was most needed. Just because you have a badge does not mean you are not a criminal. The New Orleans police are storm troopers in my book and cowardly ones to boot. What else can you call heavily armed men who beat up an old lady...