Police data shows crime rising at increasing rate in England and Wales - Polidicks

[t]http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10536400.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Britains-Prime-Minister-Theresa-May-speaks-during-a-QA-at-Cross-Manufacturing-Company-in-Odd-Down.jpg[/t] ALTERNATIVE (REAL) TITLE: [UK] Gun crime up 25% [url]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/19/rising-at-increasing-rate-in-england-and-wales-police-figures-show[/url] [quote] The rise in crime is accelerating, with the latest figures showing a 13% increase in all police-recorded offences across England and Wales, and even greater rises for violent offences including knife crime, sexual offences and violence against the person. ... “But while it is clear that [b]much of the rise in police-recorded violent offences is due to better recording[/b], we know that some of this increase is likely to be genuine, which is why we have taken urgent action to stop these crimes and keep our communities safe,” she said. ... The increasingly violent nature of England and Wales is underlined by double-digit increases in types of violent crime that, although low in volume, cause significant harm and alarm. [b]They include a 27% rise in gun crime to 6,696 offences, a 26% increase in knife crime to 36,998 offences, robberies up 25% to 64,499, sexual offences up 19% to 129,700[/b], and stalking and harassment up 36% to 243,086 reported incidents. ... The overall category of violence against the person, which includes homicide, death or serious injury caused by illegal driving, violence with injury, violence without injury, and stalking and harassment, rose 19% to 1,229,260 reported incidents. There were also double-digit increases in domestic violence and public order offences. Some categories of police-recorded crime fell in the past year, including drug offences, down 9% to 132,935, and non-domestic burglary. ... The Home Office data shows there were more than 8,000 allegations of rape reported to police that were not officially recorded as rapes. [/quote] This comes after some pretty substantial and sustained cuts to police (and other services). Tis worth noting that some of this (according to Sarah Newton, much of this) increase is from better reporting and recording. Also the pants shittingly high 27% increase in gun violence is likely due to its relatively low baseline figure, so a relatively small number will provide a huge percent increase. My own personal view on this: While we need more funding for police, this is not a reason to fear leaving your house, the chance of being affected by crime (if you're not a woman and you're not in an ethnic minority) are fairly low.

[QUOTE]While we need more funding for police, this is not a reason to fear leaving your house, the chance of being affected by crime (if you're not a woman and you're not in an ethnic minority) are fairly low.[/QUOTE] It's still beyond unacceptable. We all know damn well why this is happening: because of Brexit, there's an increase in violence against minorities. Because of the Tories, there's been major cuts to the police force. If anything, there should be an increase in police spending, so they can actually do their job instead of having to fire perfectly capable officers just because they can't afford to have them around.

Without sounding like I'm trying to stir up hysteria, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Obviously the entire country hasn't turned into some post apocalyptic wasteland, but the effects of police cuts are more obvious in some places than others. My area has been hit particularly hard by the police cuts, and some nights it really is like we don't have any cops at all. A year or so ago there was this pretty widely talked about case where some cars got torched and the police told residents to just hide indoors because they couldn't respond- the local radio milked the fuck out of the story because some vintage camper van treasure was among the vehicles that got burned. Ever since then it's like people know the police wont come if they vandalise shit, every night a new street of cars gets their wing mirrors pulled off, or all their windows smashed, always reported, always caught on cctv, nothing is ever done about it. It seems that over the last year or so everyone I know has witnessed or been the victim of some kind of crime, of varying severity, and every time they end the story with "and the bloody police wouldn't do anything about it". Criminals aren't even bothering to cover their faces when they shoplift or try to mug people, and in a close semi-rural community like mine, chances are everyone knows exactly who they are- still never see them get arrested. Fuck, last week my girlfriend and I were driving to Tesco at 2am because it was the only store still open- and she had to slam on the breaks because there was a drunk guy crawling up the middle of the road towards us on his belly. At first we thought he had been hit by a car, We put the hazards on and got out and asked if he was alright, the dude started swearing and shouting incoherently, threatening to kill us both. My girlfriend calls the cops, explains that there's a bloke crawling up the middle of an unlit rural lane, threatening anyone who stops quick enough not to run him over. Their response? "the current active car is in the town over, nothing we can do, just go around him." The [i] one [/i] (1) police car they have running has better things to do- just fucking go around the dude potentially attempting to commit suicide against your car?. Again, it's not like there are riots every night, Ive personally only had to call the police 3 times in the last year- but it's fucking scary that every time I have called them they have essentially told us they aren't coming and we are on our own.

I don't think it's just the police cuts. The Tories/brexit or whatever make it harder for people to live, I'm struggling to catch up with inflation. I imagine for people that're doing worse off, crime's just becoming more desirable, either for personal gain or just frustration with the system. But, it'll probably take another tory victory for the post apocalyptic wasteland we've been waiting for.

[QUOTE=The Jack;52800625]I don't think it's just the police cuts. The Tories/brexit or whatever make it harder for people to live, I'm struggling to catch up with inflation. I imagine for people that're doing worse off, crime's just becoming more desirable, either for personal gain or just frustration with the system. But, it'll probably take another tory victory for the post apocalyptic wasteland we've been waiting for.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSFU2w4jFw[/url] so that video is a radio show about why people join gangs, a buncha gang members phone up saying why they did what they did. One of the guys is talking about how he has gone legit but he's working a zero hour contract and really struggling and everyday its a struggle and he finds himself questioning whether or not obeying the law is the "right" thing to do. Very good video, good radio guy, good youtube channel(s) (the guy keeps making new channels to avoid copyright stuff)

Not surprised at all, as mentioned before police cuts and people going onto this ridiculous system "Universal Credit". Waiting up to 12 weeks in some extreme cases to receive any money at all, my neighbour is a month in arrears since he switches over simply because they just did not pay him. Glad I am not in that situation, I hope I never will be. Used to have to go to foodbanks when I was 17 and homeless, not a nice feeling believe me. [editline]20th October 2017[/editline] Oh and not only that the fact that you are charged £1.50 per [B]minute.[/B] That means an hour phone call is £90, which could have gone towards electric and food. I had to invite him in a couple times just to feed him I felt so bad, it's not my fucking fault either. This government needs to take some responsibility for it's awful decision making and step up and admit they were wrong.

[QUOTE=joshthesmith;52800677]Oh and not only that the fact that you are charged £1.50 per [B]minute.[/B] That means an hour phone call is £90, which could have gone towards electric and food. [/QUOTE] This is not correct: [url]https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-does-universal-credit-helpline-cost/[/url] - granted it should be free, but it's far from £1.50 a minute. Anyway, the rise in crime is purely down to spread of Radical Islamic terror, at least according to Trump: [url]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/921323063945453574[/url]

[QUOTE=GoingPostal13;52800805] Anyway, the rise in crime is purely down to spread of Radical Islamic terror, at least according to Trump: [url]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/921323063945453574[/url][/QUOTE] Oh dear, the talking toupee got its foot stuck in its moth again...

Yeah, how can anyone be surprised about this when social and public services have been gutted. More people are being engendered to criminality through financial hardship, while support to help prevent it is withdrawn and the ability of the police to deal with the fallout is diminished. It's simple fucking maths. In the last year alone one of my mates has been broken into 3 times (and he was there for one of them, got kicked in), another has crackheads always picking up outside his house, I've personally witnessed 4 attempted thefts, a few local shops and restaurants have been broken into. Every single one of these incidents has been reported to the police, in at least four of these cases the perpetrators' identities were either already known to the police or reported by the victims, and yet not one of them have been resolved. That they seemingly lack the resources or manpower to address some pretty heinous shit is telling.

[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;52800945]Yeah, how can anyone be surprised about this when social and public services have been gutted. More people are being engendered to criminality through financial hardship, while support to help prevent it is withdrawn and the ability of the police to deal with the fallout is diminished. It's simple fucking maths. In the last year alone one of my mates has been broken into 3 times (and he was there for one of them, got kicked in), another has crackheads always picking up outside his house, I've personally witnessed 4 attempted thefts, a few local shops and restaurants have been broken into. Every single one of these incidents has been reported to the police, in at least four of these cases the perpetrators' identities were either already known to the police or reported by the victims, and yet not one of them have been resolved. That they seemingly lack the resources or manpower to address some pretty heinous shit is telling.[/QUOTE] No, you see, it's the brown peoples' fault.

[QUOTE=IKTM;52800973]No, you see, it's the brown peoples' fault.[/QUOTE] No, it's the immigrants fault! The spread cancer and cause house prices to rise!

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52800995]No, it's the immigrants fault! The spread cancer and cause house prices to rise![/QUOTE] The immigrants ARE the brown people. Only foreigners are brown.

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52800995]No, it's the immigrants fault! The spread cancer and cause house prices to rise![/QUOTE] I think Frankie Boyle made a great joke if that you feed all the headlines into a computer and ask it to generate an average headline it would come up with "Foreigners carry a new type of aids that lowers house prices." Of course these days it would be "Foreigners carry a new type of ebola that causes terrorist strikes, melts the NHS and recives brexit boost."

Daft twerp blames it all on Islamic terrorism in tweet. [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41695667[/url]

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;52801340]Daft twerp blames it all on Islamic terrorism in tweet. [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41695667[/url][/QUOTE] Ironic when he himself is allegedly responsible for some himself. (in the US) [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/15/politics/trump-campaign-subpoena-sexual-assault-allegations/index.html[/url] How could anybody be stupid enough to believe Trump. Stupidity is literally the only remaining explaination

The Tories think they can push people to desperation and that we'll end up begging them to help us. In reality all it does is breed distrust toward them more.

[QUOTE=Chris Morris;52801548]The Tories think they can push people to desperation and that we'll end up begging them to help us. In reality all it does is breed distrust toward them more.[/QUOTE] At this point people trust Corbyn more than the Tories, at least where I am from. He helped IRA in quite a few cases from what I have read. Reminds me of the South Park episode about voting, you vote for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich, either way you're going to get fucked [editline]21st October 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=GoingPostal13;52800805]This is not correct: [url]https://fullfact.org/economy/how-much-does-universal-credit-helpline-cost/[/url] - granted it should be free, but it's far from £1.50 a minute.[/QUOTE] Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me. I heard it was over £1.50 not sure where. But yes, should be free especially to those who have literally no money and have been waiting weeks...

[QUOTE=joshthesmith;52805248]At this point people trust Corbyn more than the Tories, at least where I am from. He helped IRA in quite a few cases from what I have read. [/QUOTE] Helped them pursue non-violent means to their ends and establishing peace as opposed to continued bombings, yes.