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"One of the most fundamental duties of any government is to protect its citizens from violence. Violent crime has more than tripled since 1997, the year that Labour came to power. The number of homicides per year has increased from 705 in 1997 to 954 in 2005. The number of rapes reported to the police has doubled to more than 14,000. And those statistics do not capture the horrific amount of intimidating violence on the streets of our cities: the gangs of hooded young men swaggering threateningly through residential neighbourhoods, the drunken hordes that congregate around pubs on Friday and Saturday nights, the drug dealers who carry guns and use them to wipe out the competition - and often kill or wound wholly innocent bystanders in the process."
