Backlash over Theresa May’s denial of link between crime levels and officer numbers
The prime minister sparked a backlash over the government’s handling of rising knife crime after she insisted there was “no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers” amid new evidence of a sharp rise in teens using knives.
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