Haltemprice and Howden By-election
The Green Party questioned Mr Davis's stance on some civil liberties issues - including his support for the 28-day limit on holding terror suspects without charge, increased from 14 days in 2005, and his views on capital punishment and gay rights.
This is no Road to Damascus conversion by Mr Davis here, this is a careful manipulation of public concerns over the loss of our civil liberties.
Rape law campaigner Jill Saward, who stood as an independent, criticised his opposition to extending the DNA database and CCTV - which she sees as "the very tools the police need to keep us safe".
No Jill you are wrong.
Heinous as this particular crime is, the statistics regarding the amount of crime DNA and CCTV actually solve are minimal and with rape, a crime often conducted in an environment free of any surveillance, CCTV would have little or no impact.
Given also that many of the CCTV systems around the country are in poor state of repair or not manned 24/7, or that the images obtained are of a quality unsutable to be used in court.
Home Office Reports - Assessing the Impact of CCTV
Home Office - CCTV
CCTV is just another illusion which does not make us safer.
BBC NEWS | Politics | Davis cruises to by-election win
Friday 11 July 2008
BBC NEWS | Politics | Davis cruises to by-election win
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