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Labour Party Conference: Yvette Cooper speech; - We should never allow dangerous criminals to run abroad and hide from British justice. But that’s the shocking thing about this Government. They won’t put victims first. Taking 17,000 rape suspects off the DNA database Abolishing ASBOs so that repeat antisocial behaviour is no longer a criminal offence They don’t seem to understand the damage crime does to families and communities. Because they don’t believe in using the power of government or the strength of communities to cut crime or keep people safe. So let me tell you three things I think we should do right now to fight crime. People are fed up with the fact that some criminals seem to be untouchable, making millions on the drugs, trafficking or the security rackets that ruin young lives. Even if they go to prison, when they come out they get back into their flash cars and drive home to big houses. Money they’ve got through crime, extortion, violence. We’re only getting back an estimated five per cent of the illegal cash. Criminals have found ways round the laws we introduced. So it’s time to choke off the legal loopholes and choke off organised crime. Second we need stronger action on economic crime. Look at the LIBOR scandal that emerged this summer. It is a multibillion pound fraud. People were fiddling the figures to get rich, while small businesses paid the price. Yet no one has been arrested. In the US they have seen 800 prosecutions for serious fraud since last year. Yet as Emily Thornberry has pointed out, here in the UK where the Serious Fraud Office budget has been cut by 25 per cent, they have pursued only 20. If you don’t pay your TV licence you’ll end up in court. But defraud millions of pensioners or small businesses and you can get off scot free. We need an end to the double standards. New action and new laws. People need to be able to invest with confidence knowing everyone is playing by the same fair rules. ...