Law-abiding majority must be liberated from selfish, anti-social minority

THE British public are sick and tired of anti-social behaviour causing misery to their communities.

In neighbourhoods where it is tolerated, more crime follows.

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Sun readers will agree that everyone deserves to feel pride in their local community.

Nobody should have to live in fear of their neighbours, endure disorder and drug-taking in parks, see their streets disfigured by graffiti, dog mess and litter, or feel unsafe walking alone at night.

So we have launched an action plan to tackle this, with safety, security, and respect for others at its core.

It’s about good old-fashioned, common-sense policing, with a focus on criminal justice, rather than social justice.

Too often offenders think they will get away with it. That can’t go on.

We are providing additional funding for increased patrols, and a new plan to deliver immediate punishment.

Illegal drugs destroy lives and wreak havoc in our communities, and abuse all too often leads to further criminal activity.

I decided we must ban nitrous oxide, making possession a criminal offence, and expand the list of offences for which police officers can drug test people once they have been arrested.

We will prohibit organised begging, and begging that is intimidating or a public nuisance.

Police forces must show a more common-sense approach to tackling antisocial behaviour and I will continue to hold them to account so they remain relentlessly focused on keeping people safe, not politically correct distractions.

There is no such thing as petty crime.

This government realises that.

We will act – because the law-abiding majority must be liberated from the selfish, anti-social minority.