The Thin Blue Line
Too scared to go out, a 73-year-old woman sits watching tv as thieves break in and steal her pension book. Down the road, a 50-year-old woman is raped as she walks home, elsewhere a 15-year-old boy is arrested for armed robbery. It's just a day in the life of an inner city borough where new research suggests that one in two houses will be hit by crime each year.
Tonight Panorama looks at whether police can hold the line in the war against crime. Reporter Paul Barry Producer CHRIS OXLEY Editor DAVID DICKINSON