England’s Baby Steps

The United Kingdom’s political elites are apparently feeling the public pressure. They’ve decided to pursue some actions against the “grooming gangs,” although the efforts are insufficient to achieve justice.

On Thursday, the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans for a nationwide, three-month audit of evidence on the grooming gangs; it will focus on the “societal and cultural drivers” and ethnicity of the gang members. According to Cooper, this audit will evaluate data that was not previously available, including some that was “collected by the police taskforce.”