TY - JOUR
AU - Neyroud, Peter
AB - Editorial Protecting the Frontline: The Recessionary Dilemma? Peter Neyroud ‘Protecting the frontline’ is becoming a major po- deed, the financial investigators, who are the focus litical theme in policing in the UK as the global of Bullock’s article, in this issue. recession bites on the public finances that support The context for the UK party conferences was policing. A similar debate has already taken place provided by the media coverage of a tragic suicide in the United States, where the Obama government and death in a Leicestershire village of a mother, responded with a $4 billion programme of invest- Fiona Pilkington and her disabled daughter (BBC, ment in policing, a large part of which was directly 2009). The subsequent inquest ruled that the mother designed to sustain the employment of staff in lo- had taken her life and that of her daughter fol- cal law enforcement. The Obama funds have been lowing a campaign of harassment and intimidation channelled through the Department of Justice and against her daughter by local youths, which had been have been linked to one of the key themes of the reported to, but had not been satisfactorily dealt Obama government---‘what works?’ There has been 
TI - Protecting the Frontline: The Recessionary Dilemma
JF - Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
DO - 10.1093/police/pap053
DA - 2010-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/protecting-the-frontline-the-recessionary-dilemma-T7zjvFdQzc
SP - 1
EP - 3
VL - 4
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -