11Feb/104
Police force costs more than just letting people commit crimes
It is a shocking revelation that will amaze everyone: the cost of policing crime actually costs more than just letting criminals get away with it.
The annual cost of running the police force will be several times more than the cost of just letting people break the law.
Someone said: "Is this really value for money, when we could just let people get away with it? Why don't we just let everyone get away with it? It would cost less than having to try and stop people from doing this."
Inspired by this, which to be fair at least doesn't have a Taxpayers Alliance quote.
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February 11th, 2010 - 12:27
Anton, have you seen this rather woolly Daily Mail cartoon? http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/02/11/racist-daily-mail-cartoon-equates-immigrants-with-animals/
February 11th, 2010 - 13:32
To be fair, the cost of this expenses monitoring body is absurd, unless its remit goes beyond just doing the expenses of MPs. I keep thinking that there must be something I’m missing, like this is just an article the BBC put up to get the ranting going on HYS, but taken at face value this is really absurd.
February 11th, 2010 - 14:14
If the police really did cost a lot more than the crimes they were preventing, surely it would be right to get rid of them?
Justice (like anything) is not infinitely valuable, so you need to have a cut-off. How much would the expenses body have to cost before you would consider it to be a waste of public money?
February 11th, 2010 - 17:29
Indeed. I suppose with policing there are lots of things I don’t appreciate the the cost of (training, wages, equipment, behind the scenes staff, etc), but with something as straightforward as expenses we all know it’s going to pretty much come down to a few accountants and a set of reasonably straightforward rules on what MPs are entitled to.
I’ve filled in expense forms for work before, they’re tedious, but the expenses process is not something that requires the investment cited in the article.