Riots show UK has lost respect for police, warns Home Secretary

Police about which Britain has apparently lost respect says the Home Secretary following the riots. 
 
Yvette Cooper promised to renew people’s trust in the law while warning the rioters that the streets will be full of policemen in the coming week. 
 
She observed in writing for The Telegraph a soft approach to justice that rendered too many people with the impression that crime has no repercussions. 
 
Some weeks ago the Home Secretary described the unrest which spread across many British towns and cities as ‘disgraceful attempted assault on the rule of law itself’. 

“I am not prepared to tolerate the blatant disrespect and contempt which a minority have considered appropriate towards our men and women in uniform, or the disrespect for other people’s property and life that has become increasingly common in recent years,” she said. 
 
This means dealing with those who are arrested for the violent disorder of the last two weeks, but also with an effort to reclaim police authority, and people’s compliance with the law. Whether the crime is as minor as anti-social behaviour or as serious as violence, there is the perception that there are no consequences for such actions because charge rates have been reduced whilst court delays have occurred. That has to change. 
 
‘A lot of reconstruction has to be made in our communities following the destructions of the past two weeks. ’ But respect the police, respect the law and respect your neighbour is where we need to begin. 
 
On Sunday one of the three child victims of the Southport stabbing attack, which occurred a fortnight ago, was buried. 
 
Memorials were held for nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar as her family posted a picture of her with her two brothers by the Tayor Swift dance class where she was murdered and told how they hoped to have a ‘perfect dream child’. 
 
Pseudo-news circulating on social media fuelled the riots, naming the attacker as a Muslim refugee who came to the UK in a boat. 
 
Ms Cooper admitted that there were many people ‘with very firm opinions’ on the subject of immigration but went on to say that was no reason to act as the rioters did. 
 
She said that prosecutions of the persons of interest involved in the disturbance, out of which over 30 have been incarcerated, would go on unabated this week. 
 
Just under 1000 individuals have been detained and over 450 individuals have been charged in connection with the riots and counter protests that have been conducted over the course of the past two weeks. 
 
On Sunday, Stephen Parkinson, the director of the Crown Prosecution Service, declared that stormers might get up to 10 years of prison in case of conviction. 
 
Britain’s opposition Labour party will have to speak about what policies it will pursue to combat some of the issues that have been cited as being behind the riots, such as perceptions about borders. It will also have to cope with the demand that high levels of immigration place on the public services. 
 
On his first day in power, Sir Keir Starmer abandoned the Tories’ Rwanda policy but has yet to provide much in the way of specifics on how he plans to achieve the former’s stated aim of reducing legal and, more pertinently, illegal migration. 
 
On Friday the Telegraph outlined how Labour is consulting on changing rules that would pressure social media firms to block fake news, and Ms Cooper has stated she wishes to see more PCSOs on the beat. 
 
However, high immigration will also put pressure on the public services able to fund which will also be a challenge facing the Government. 
 
Other also blame regional disparities as having contributed to the riots with seven of the ten poorest part of England experiencing the riots. 
 
While Sir Keir has begun dropping Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” mantra by this he could simply reassign money to the region most impacted to pay out for social integration projects. 
 
Ms Cooper said: There are many people in Britain who holds rather opinions regarding crime, immigration, the National Health Services (NHS) and so on. 
 
The youths do not seize bricks and hurl some at police, do not plunder stores or destroy automobiles or violently assault other individuals based solely on their skin hue, set buildings on fire while people are in them. 
 
“Sure, we said criminals would pay the price and we meant it, that my friends, is the rule of law in practice, it will be absolutely essential over the next few days to sustain the work that reduced the threatened violence namely the police presence on the streets and the tempo of arrests and prosecution. 
 
She said that the long-term strategy of Labour to recruit more neighborhood patrols into a thousand plus will help build confidence in the police. 
 
Her comments follow criticism of the party from Dame Margaret Hodge, a Labour elder stateswoman, for being ‘too scared’ to articulate the public’s fear of immigration. 
 
She declared the Government wants to know that the borders can be policed and they can send back migrants who offend.