Beat bobbies cut crime; You Say Email:letters@liverpoolecho.co.uk.The Government occasionally informs us that crime has fallen but seldom says from when. A recent report in the ECHO revealed that the police have dealt with 80 murders in the past three years. I remember the 1920s and 1930s when murder was so rare that if one was committed, not only locally, but in any part of the country, the Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical Express or ECHO published a special afternoon edition to report it. Every level of crime was much lower in those pre-war days, because we had a real deterrent de·ter·rent adj. Tending to deter: deterrent weapons. n. 1. Something that deters: a deterrent to theft. 2. no longer seen, namely, police on the beat both on foot and cycle. N Roberts, L12 |
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