Originally Posted by
airpolice
The Police don't need more powers, the courts need to enforce the powers already in place.
Agreed. The Tories have a habit of increasing punishments for some offences as an easy head line grabbing way of making it look as if they are doing something about the problem, There are two problems with that. First as you have pointed out the courts very rarely give out maximum sentences and second, there aren't enough police now either to arrest people at the scene or to thoroughly investigate the crime afterwards.