"While it provides a sometimes useful tool after an event, it doesn't address the root causes of crime and doesn't protect the public, " said the group's director, Nick Pickles.

WSJ: Bombing probe highlights expansion of surveillance

Over the past 20 years, the city has seen no major changes in the factors so often cited as the "root causes" of crime.

WSJ: Stopping Urban Crime Without Jail Time

By creating a circle of offending, punishing and re-offending, we are doing nothing about the root causes of these types of crime.

BBC: Pete Levy

This college gap could be the one that spells the most serious problem for guys, and can over time be at the root of a lot of increased frustration and even crime.

WSJ: Guys Left Behind

Doctors have to get patients to list their symptoms, describe their behaviour, make a diagnosis and work out whether the root of the problem is at work, home, or in something as vague as fear of crime, all within ten minutes, says Mary Church, a Lanarkshire doctor.

ECONOMIST: Why so many people are off sick while the economy is healthy

His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.

NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man