Car ASBOs?
Posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Anti-Social Behaviour
The government is awfully proud of their success in tackling anti-social behaviour.
Despite the fact that somewhere between 47% and 55% of ASBOs are breached, they remain a success, according to the ever-optimistic Vernon Coaker.
This is all based on the fact that last year, 1 in 6 people told the British Crime Survey (p53) they were troubled by anti-social behaviour, down from 1 in 5 in 2002/3. This is, apparently, the “true measure of our success” with ASBOs.
Funny, then, that the only change is almost solely down to a collapse in the number of people worried about burnt out or abandoned cars.
While that success is commendable, I really don’t think it has anything to do with ASBOs. Certainly, the last time I checked you couldn’t issue ASBOs against cars but maybe that’s next on the legislative agenda….
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March 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Your author is confused between ASB (anti-social behaviour) and ASBOs (anti-social behaviour orders). A collapse in the number of people worried about burnt out or abandoned cars is in fact a measure that fewer people are troubled by ASB. Not ASBOs. See?