EVENING Press reports about the amount of money granted to local residents to make their properties safe from burglary confirms my long-held suspicion that there is a vested interest in not offering proper sanctions or punishment against criminal behaviour because "fighting crime" is an industry on which many jobs depend.
Martin Cruttwell,
Hamilton House,
Scrayingham, York.
Updated: 10:37 Thursday, January 17, 2002
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