#120 - Lisa Townsend - Common-sense Policing: Drugs, Gangs and Hurty Words
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#120 - Lisa Townsend - Common-sense Policing: Drugs, Gangs and Hurty Words
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About this listen
Lisa Townsend is the elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for the Conservative Party in Surrey. In this interview, we discuss openly about the failure of prohibition, the politicisation of policing & growing crime.
We discuss:
– Crime, police priorities & why frontline officers are demoralised
– Drugs, gangs & the rise of middle-class shoplifting
– Whether prohibition has failed & what to do about it
– Policing vs mental health vs social work: who's doing what?
– State bloat & NHS reform
– The case for decentralisation, taxpayer control & back-to-basics policing
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Intro
00:04:45 – Public Safety
00:10:20 – PCCs vs Politicised Policing
00:15:30 – What the PCC Role Does
00:18:49 – The Real Job of Oversight
00:28:10 – Who Should Enter Politics?
00:32:00 – Can We Still Afford the State?
00:36:30 – Crime, Cost & Council Collapse
00:46:30 – Who Really Sets Police Priorities?
00:56:00 – The Shoplifting Spiral
01:01:30 – Middle-Class Theft Surge
01:06:30 – The Cocaine Hypocrisy
01:10:45 – Policing's Hidden Frontlines
01:16:00 – Has Prohibition Failed?
01:21:00 – Drugs, Markets & Legalisation
01:32:45 – What Should the State Do?
01:42:00 – The Mental Health Breakdown
01:51:00 – NHS Reform & Political Cowardice
01:56:00 – Can the PCC Model Work?
02:00:00 – Should PCCs Be Better Known?
02:06:00 – What's Wasting Police Time?
02:08:00 – Final Thoughts
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