I belive it all boils down to the do-gooders, not enough support of victims and FAR too much support for crims! Metpol makes some very good points regarding parents not taking responsibility for thier kids, if I had ever come home with any problems with the police, it would have been hell to pay if I was in the wrong!

Unfortunatly people fail to differentiate between the police catching and succesfully prosecuting a crim, only for the courts to hand out a complete waste of time of a sentance, and more than likley be back on the streets the same day ..

The whole country is broken, and needs mending fast. The problems as I see from my own point of view:

1) It is "cool" to be "gangster", totally agree with Nilrem about rappers glamorising being a cunt basically, it is much cooler to mug a granny than help her cross the road

2) No one takes responsibility for thier own actions anymore... If you fell over and grazed your knee, you got up, worked out why you fell over and thought "that hurt, I must learn to not do that again and watch where I am going".... Now, it's who can I sue, ahh, must be the councils/shoe makers fault! Learn to take the concequences of your own actions!! The comp culture is disgusting, especially all the "no win no fee" ambulance chasers making it 1000 times worse

3) A justice system that hands out menial sentances to repeat and serious offenders, and cushy prisons where it is more of a holiday camp. Do you know that prisoners get the same amount of phone call allowance per week as the British forces serving on ops in Iraq/Afghan get?? How is that punishment?

4) The dole/benefit culture.. Why do we support scum? It is there for people who need it not lazy people!

5) No pride in our country

I could go on and on, but basically we need some decent leadership and MUCH tougher sentancing for a start, building a few more prisons would create empolyment as well!