Guillaume Larrivé is a member of Parliament for Yonne and president of the France tomorrow movement.
The political debate on security is bogged down in frightening mediocrity, under the effect of four defects.
The performative illusion, first of all, which swells the words supposed to act magically on the evils: we are indignant, we compete with shocking formulas, we put firewood in the blaze of media polemics, we are deeply shocked, we condemn very firmly… but all this lyrical pseudo-force unpacking betrays a real practical weakness.
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The simplistic repetition, then: some say that it is enough to increase the police force (without ever thinking about the management of some 250,000 police and gendarmes who make up the human resources of internal security), others repeat in loop for nearly of twenty years the same slogans (establish minimum sentences, build prisons, punish minors as well as adults, etc.).
Legislative agitation, again and again: the penal code,
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