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Blair Gibbs
"Tony Blair says he wants a justice system more in tune with victims – he could start by giving citizens the right to determine how their own neighbourhoods are policed. In New York, crime fell every year while Mayor Rudy Giuliani was held accountable at the ballot box for the performance of the police commissioner he appointed, and the policing revolution they together pioneered. Britain’s current police leadership have clearly failed and won’t reform, so the public should have the right to demand that they are replaced by those who want to apply the broken windows policing the UK both needs and desires. Kelling’s point was simple: the true inheritors of Peel’s philosophy of preventative policing are now Americans, not the Met. It is time to bring home the broken windows revolution by making the police democratically accountable. "
