Pom-poms to make people feel better about crime

[Elliott]

Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester

[Gavin]

It's not April 1st yet!

I notice the criminologist says it'll make people "feel safer" - not that it will actually make them safer. So these "bon-bons" might facilitate more crime!

[Elliott]

Those were my thoughts too, Gavin. An absurd and infantilising waste of time.

[Gavin]

So predictable that this particular "ologist", a criminologist, should come out with this kind of thing.