On Sun, 16 May 2004 22:45:53 GMT, Carl Nisarel
wrote:
Attempting Eddaic Poetry for the first time, Gunner wrote --
Good Lord man..do you actually live in a cave????
We know that you do, Gunner. We also know that you're lying.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0203.html
This is the second edition of Crime in England and Wales'
bringing together statistics from the British Crime Survey
(BCS) and the numbers of crimes recorded by the police. It
provides a comprehensive account of the latest patterns and
trends in the main high volume crimes.
The main points in this 2002/03 edition a
Crimes against adults in England and Wales decreased by two
per cent in 2002/03, according to the British Crime Survey.
There has been a 25 per cent fall in crime measured by the
BCS in the five years between 1997 and 2002/03.
Crimes recorded by the police decreased by three per cent
in 2002/03, after taking into account the impact of the
National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) on recording
practices.
Police recording of those crimes reported to them is now at
an historic high of 70 per cent, according to the BCS.
The risk of becoming a victim of crime remains at an
historic low (around 27%) according to the BCS, one-third
lower than the risk in 1995 (40%).
Chuckle...this is the same governmental organization that was caught
under reporting crimes, and encouraged the police to hide crime
figures. You are aware that those figures only show those that were
brought to trial, are you not? Snicker...
Lets look at other sources Cattle..sources that have nothing to
hide....
http://www.business-finance-online.c...15_10_2003.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3419401.stm (read past the ass covering
by the police)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...equestid=50048
Britain the most violent country in western Europe
By John Steele, Crime Correspondent
(Filed: 25/10/2003)
Britain has the worst record in western Europe for killings, violence
and burglary and its citizens face one of the highest risks in the
industrialised world of becoming victims of crime, a study has shown.
Offences of violence in the UK have been running at three times the
level of the next worst country in western Europe, and burglaries at
nearly twice the rate.
Britain has the highest level of homicides in western Europe and the
totals for robberies and thefts of motor vehicles have also been close
to the highest in the European Union, outstripped only by France, the
Home Office figures show.
Only Germany, which has 20 million more people, recorded more crimes
overall in 2001, the most up-to-date figure in the research -
International Comparisons of Criminal Justice Statistics 2001, with
data collected by the Home Office and the Council of Europe.
But the "victimisation risk" - showing the risk of suffering a crime -
in England and Wales is higher for overall crime than anywhere else in
Europe, and higher than in America. The same is true of falling victim
to "contact" - violent - crime.
England and Wales also had markedly fewer police officers per head of
population than France, Germany and Italy, according to the study.
The Home Office points out that police have achieved some reductions
in violence and robbery in 2003.
The study is also accompanied by warnings about the difficulties in
making comparisons because of differing definitions and methods of
recording crime. But the sheer scale of offending in the UK in recent
years is apparent from the figures.
Britain had 1,050 homicides in 2001, three ahead of France, the next
worst in western Europe.
In 2001, UK police recorded nearly 870,000 violent crimes, a figure
hugely above the next highest total - 279,000 in France. Germany
recorded 188,000 violent offences.
There were around 470,000 domestic burglary offences in England,
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Spain recorded 247,000 offences,
France 210,000 and Germany 133,000.
The figures for robbery, which surged in Britain around the turn of
the Millennium, showed about 127,000 offences in 2001.
This was surpassed only by France, with a total of 134,000. Both
countries were ahead of Spain (104,000) and substantially ahead of
Germany (57,000) and Italy (66,000).
Overall, in 2001 nearly 6.1 million crimes were recorded in the UK.
Only Germany had a higher total (6.3 million).
Hazel Blears, the Home Office minister for crime reduction and
policing, said: "This report shows the picture in 2001.
"Since then we have cut crime further and dramatically increased the
number of police on our streets."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../ncrime105.xml
Rising crime, falling accuracy
By Philip Johnston
(Filed: 05/04/2003)
What has happened to crime statistics? Once they were the gold
standard of the criminal justice system against which could be
measured the success of the police against the villains.
We relied upon recorded crimes - those reported to the police - as a
guide.
But, increasingly, the Government has come to rely upon the British
Crime Survey. This used to be conducted every two years (it is now
annual) among a pool of about 20,000 people who give their personal
experience of crime. It has a major flaw in that it excludes
under-16s.
Ministers began to notice that the BCS told a different story to the
recorded crime figures: it was registering a decline. So, the survey
became the new guide for the Government, talked up by ministers as the
only true measurement of crime.
Furthermore, the Home Office was unhappy with the way the police
recorded their statistics and so it introduced a new National Crime
Recording Standard - a sort of statistical quality control.
This, then, is where we stood yesterday when the latest quarterly
crime figures were produced. "Crime is down," said Bob Ainsworth, the
Home Office minister. "These figures show government measures to
reduce crime are working."
Well, do they? Let us take the claim that domestic burglary fell by 11
per cent from just over one million to 948,000 in 2002. This is not a
real figure but an estimate calculated using interim population
figures supplied by the Office for National Statistics. So, too, is
the 17 per cent "drop" in vehicle thefts. Why is the Government
relying on a survey to establish the theft of a car or a house
break-in? Who does not report a stolen car or a burgled house?
When we look at the crimes recorded by the police a different picture
emerges. Over the three months to December, domestic burglary fell by
less than two per cent and vehicle theft by just three per cent, both
of which are "statistically insignificant".
Total recorded crime rose by more than four per cent over the quarter
and by eight per cent over the year as a whole. The Government
finesses this by "adjusting" the figures to account for the new
recording standard. And, lo and behold, they then go down. Instead of
the four per cent increase in the three months to December, we
discover that it has, in fact, miraculously fallen by seven per cent.
However, this adjusted figure is also an estimate. Needless to say,
the Home Office highlights the two estimated measures of crime - the
BCS and the new recording standard, which show a decline - and ignore
the recorded crime figures that show an increase.
Or take violent crime, which the Home Office said "appears to have
levelled off". The recorded crime figures show a 28 per cent rise in
the final quarter of 2002. Yet after "adjustment", this declines
almost to zero on the grounds that "most offences are relatively minor
assaults". Adjustments are always made to make the figures look more
positive.
This statistical jiggery-pokery is making it almost impossible for
observers to know what is going on. The Home Office stopped publishing
monthly asylum figures because they produced bad publicity on a
regular basis. Recently the Home Office issued figures claiming that
the reconviction rate among young offenders was falling. Closer
scrutiny showed this just was not true. An official complaint has been
lodged with the Statistical Commission about the way race figures have
been used.
In the short term, the Home Office's inventive use of statistics may
get favourable headlines. In the long run, it risks damaging its
reputation for straight-dealing, perhaps irreparably.
Lets take a look at a joint study between Scotland Yard and the US
Department of Justice on crime in the US, England and Wales, shall we?
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cjusew96h.pdf
Chuckle...once again..Cattle ****s in his messkit.
Waaaay to go Cattle..thats the way to show the world just what lying
sacks of ****e you anti gun extremists are all about.
Take your spanking like the Sub you are. I know you enjoy it.
Gunner
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's
cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.
- George Orwell