On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:21:07 +0100, Dave
wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Steve Walker
saying something like:

I doubt there are many more instances of child abduction /
interference etc than say 30 or 40 years ago. The difference is
that *everybody* now has easy access to news media and is willing
to go that route.

KK
I certainly saw a documentary (probably around eight years ago)
where they asserted that the number of children kidnapped and
abused/murdered hadn't changed for fifty years, so as you say, it is
most likely just that there is a lot more reporting of it.
Exactly.
I'm reminded of a study of the so-called 'crimewave' of the 1960s (of
which the tabloid rags made a big deal), done a few years later.
Turned out the incidence of real crimes hadn't increased at all, it's
just that almost every house had a phone in it by the end of the 60s,
so the reported crimes shot up, in lockstep with the number of phones.

Co-incidence? I think not.

Rather like the increase in the number of 'alcohol related' hospital
admissions coinciding with the police decision (after a few deaths) not to
keep drunks in cells overnight to sleep it off. Now its left to the
ambulance service to take them to A&E to sleep it off.

Same amount of drunks, different paperwork.

Why not change the paperwork again and put the drunks on the park
benches to look after themselves?

Dave

Or why not tidy them away in a special van. Where they get charged for
being removed.
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