Yet what we get, each time someone decides to be "tough on crime", is "tough on criminals", because that's easy and short-term, and to the tabloid reading masse

Yet what we get, each time someone decides to be "tough on crime", is "tough on criminals", because that's easy and short-term, and to the tabloid reading masses is mistaken for "tough on crime". The closest we ever got that closest religious fruitcake Blair saying "tough on the causes of crime" but he turned out to be like the rest[1]. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-has-not-been-tough-on-the-causes-of-crime-says-woolf-6170880.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-has-not-... and much more