HARD though it is to dispute the good intentions of the anti-burglary drive launched in three of Blackburn's crime hot-spots -- all part of a £250-million nationwide burglary-reduction initiative by the government -- isn't there a more effective way of dealing with this curse?
For laudable though it may be to fund physical measures to combat this crime with better locks, closed-circuit TV, neighbourhood watch schemes and so forth, would not burglars be deterred much more effectively if they were guaranteed jail for every offence rather than probation or wrist-slapping community service?
And isn't that what burglars deserve -- and once could expect when burglary was nothing like as common as it is now?
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