General Election June 2017

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hugo7 in reply to @stevo_com

to have to go full on army in the streets is a direct result of the culling of front line police roles.

Playing devil's advocate here in relation to your point, isn't that a better use of limited funds?

If we accept (for this example) that more police wouldn't have prevented this. Then using the forces to step in and fill a shortfall for an uncommon event makes more sense than having extra permanent police.

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stevo_com in reply to @hugo7

The police forces are already stretched and operating at or beyond capacity. None of the 20,000 were "extra"

Deploying the military in this instance is just another symptom of an already overstretched police force.

I would rather have funding funneled into policing than 'defense'.

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Chalfie in reply to @stevo_com

Or defence.

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