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The Conservatives have a few themes, one of which is to be “tough on crime.” But there is a difference between being tough on crime and being stupid about crime, a difference the Conservatives have not learned. Most of the policies are useless or counterproductive, as almost every expert in the field will attest. And they will cost way, way more than the Conservatives have blithely suggested, as the Parliamentary Budget Office is about to explain in a report next week. But these deeply simplistic policies apparently sell well in a society bombarded by news media coverage of crime in the face of falling crime rates.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1559391/
Bang frickin on.
The whole 'tough on crime' wedge panders to the stupid and the fearful or both and there's no shortage of them.