🚔 Britain does not just need more policing. It needs everyday policing back. Matthew Bowles' debut paper for the Prosperity Institute, Broken Windows Britain, sets out a plan for policing low-level crime and disorder before it corrodes public confidence. Watch here👇

@Matthew__Bowles Anyone denying that our streets feel less safe and orderly than they did even 10 years ago is in cloudcuckooland. Essential recommendations in this report.

@Matthew__Bowles Great paper Wheels will need to be reinvented.

You missed one of the cheapest fixes. Follow places like Japan that immediately deport for minor anti social behaviour. This is also valuable as almost every serious offence by a non-citizen is not their first offence. You should deport on the minor, high frequency to avoid the serious low frequency.

@Matthew__Bowles Well spoken @Matthew__Bowles - why did Britian ever need to lose that feeling of knowing your local bobby...

@Matthew__Bowles Alas that Police and Crime Commissioners did not solve this one.

📖 Read the full report for free here 👇

🔍 In his first policy paper for Prosperity Institute, @Matthew__Bowles argues that Britain has developed a disorder gap: serious crime has fallen, but visible low-level disorder and antisocial behaviour have proliferated.

🏘️The paper draws on James Q. Wilson’s and George Kelling’s Broken Windows theory to show why neglected public spaces, vandalism, aggressive street disorder and routine antisocial behaviour matter to people's day-to-day sense of safety.

‍🚶‍♂️ The answer is not simply more resources. The report calls for patrol-based neighbourhood policing, predictable deployment and a culture that rewards the proactive maintenance of order.

⚖️ @Matthew__Bowles sets out six proposals: make antisocial behaviour a central policing priority, standardise graduated enforcement powers, deploy predictable patrols, integrate environmental maintenance, allow proactive stop and search, and reform police culture.

🇬🇧 Britain must decide whether it can afford not to police low-level disorder. Public confidence, community cohesion and long-term crime prevention depend on maintaining order in the spaces people use every day.

🚀This is start of a new research project at the Prosperity Institute, devoted to restoring the British people’s trust in the crime and justice system. 📖 Read the full report for free on our website here 👇

@Matthew__Bowles @Matthew__Bowles’ thinking and writing isn’t just sound, it is unusually elegantly written. Looking forward to reading this report!

@Matthew__Bowles Splendid. Norman Dennis and Civitas did a lot of work on this in the late 90s.

@Matthew__Bowles Great video! I'm looking forward to reading this paper, Matt.