If only police and politicians took the mugging of teenagers as seriously as the car-jacking of Mercedes

Official responses to the recent well-publicised car-jackings speak volumes about who and what this society is prepared to protect. Scotland Yard has now been given the go ahead to deploy 11 “elite armed response vehicles”, manned by marksmen wearing protective clothing and armed with rifles and handguns.

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb/12/ukcrime.comment