Scots Lose Confidence in SNP's Lenient Justice Approach
Click here to visit the Scotland home page for the latest news and sport One in three Scots are living in fear of rising crime levels amid plummeting police numbers, a damning new poll has found. Three times as many people also feel crime levels are getting worse rather than better. The findings emerged as new figures showed the eye-watering scale and cost of overtime for Police Scotland’s stretched frontline. The Scottish Conservatives said law-abiding Scots had ‘clearly lost trust’ in the SNP ’s ‘soft-touch justice system’, while the body representing frontline officers called on ministers to making policing ‘a greater priority for Government’. SNP justice Secretary Angela Constance said she was ‘concerned’ by the survey results. The Survation poll for 1919 Magazine asked more than 1,000 adults to describe how much their local area crime rate had changed in the past two years. A total of 34 per cent some a lot or a little more, 44 per cent ‘a...