In an article in The Times on November 4, 1996, Tony Blair promised: "There must be a comprehensive attack on crime and its causes instead of a search for easy headlines."
In an article in the Guardian on May 27, 1995, Gordon Brown promised to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
Since 1997, violent crime has more than doubled, and gun crime has doubled. Almost 450,000 more crimes were committed in 2005-06 than in 1998-9.
But just one in four crimes is now cleared up by the police.
Is this not another example of how Labour have failed the people of Britain and Oxfordshire?
GEOFFREY BROOKING, Paradise Street, Oxford
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