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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots as spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyfe.

And it is Crime Week for the Government.

Number 10, plan a series of announcements about how they plan to tackle crime.

And to kick things off, we're talking about drugs.

James, what is underproposal here?

So the government's view is that nearly half of,

they calculate it, nearly half of all acquisitive crime is committed by people addicted to drugs,

largely crack and heroin, and that almost half of, roughly around half of murders have some

link to drugs. And so the thinking goes, if you can deal with drugs that will cut crime now

they're all kind of three bits to this approach one is clamping down on these county lines

drugs gangs and some of the ideas in there a little bit gimmicky like you know if they find

a drug dealer's mobile phone they're going to text everyone telling them that

you know that all the numbers in the phone telling them that drugs are illegal and the like

but there's also no doubt that canterlines drug scans are one of the things that are bringing violent crime

to places that hadn't previously seen it because they are bringing much harder drugs to often fairly small towns

seaside towns and the like the second second, which I think is a good

thing if done well, is an attempt to increase the amount of drug rehabilitation available to people,

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