Tough on Crime and the causes of Crime

[ShadesWolf]

And yet another wonderful job being done.
'Tough on Crime and the causes of Crime'

Violent crime in the three months to the end of June increased by 6% on the same period last year, according to quarterly Home Office figures.
But crime overall fell by 2%, the figures for England and Wales showed.

The Home Office said the figures for violent offences - up from 301,100 to 318,200 - reflected improved crime recording and more proactive policing.

Annual crime figures published in July indicated one million violent offences in 2004-5 - up 7% on the previous year.

The 318,200 violent offences, including murder, serious wounding and other life-threatening crimes, in the second quarter of 2005, also represented a rise of more than 30,000 from the 284,900 recorded in the first quarter.

But dont worry overall crime is down, I can walk down the road and not have my phone knicked or my car stolen, but I might get murdered, seriously wounded etc...

What a great improvement

While recorded crime fell 2% in the quarterly figures, the alternative British Crime Survey (BCS), which polls people's experience of crime, found overall offences in England and Wales fell 5% in the 12 months to June 2005.

During the same period, 24% of people were the victims of at least one crime, the BCS indicates - the lowest percentage since the survey began in 1981.

Mr Clarke said: "This is a considerable achievement demonstrating the success of government initiatives on crime reduction and should not be underestimated.

"However, I recognise that the fear of crime is too high - it is not enough to reduce crime if people do not perceive that reduction.

Shadow home affairs minister Edward Garnier said violent crime was continuing to "spiral out of control".

He said: "The government should defer 24-hour drinking until it has got a grip on the problem of binge-drinking, which is fuelling violent crime."

Mr Garnier also blamed "the government's failure even to begin fighting the war on drugs" for rising violence.

New licensing laws allowing 24-hour drinking are due to come into force on 24 November.

[Papewaio]

Actually there is a link in the publics perception of criminals being brought to justice and the amount they will report it.

People will report less if they don't think the cops can find the criminals.
The report more if they think the cops can make arrests.

[Red Harvest]

And sometimes you have to hunt them down yourself so that they can make restitution...it's amazing how pliant they can become when you track them down at their business. Had to do this with a hit and run. Since the person was from another town, the local police couldn't do much, other than send a letter. It was up to me to track the person down and make it in her best interest to come clean. Took me a few days of detective work trying to get the person's physical address and insurance info, until I found out in an off the cuff conversation with an insurance agent in her aread that the person owned a business. Suddenly there was great interest in settling the matter, and all sorts of apologies. That was lucky...because I had figured out where the vehicle was parked. My next planned move was to get her insurance by breaking out a window and rummaging around for the insurance card.

In the U.S. most "minor" crimes like this are ignored. If you report them, you might not even get a police report out of it. The hit and run person wasn't even charged with anything. Car theft is not even a big deal in Texas...unless you have a weapon. I reported one of those once (they stole a cop's wife's car, while it was warming up.) They didn't use a weapon, but they had one in their possession when they were apprehended at their high school parking lot. Those boys did some time in the pen.

A friend of mine had his jeep stolen while he was in a convenience store. The clown who took it tried to run him down and there was a witness--which got the fool an attempted murder conviction and some serious time in pen. The funny part is that the idiot took off so fast that his partner fell out, and my friend caught the unlucky passenger and beat the crap out of the guy. He really enjoyed "subduing" the fellow to make sure he couldn't leave before the sheriff arrived.

[InsaneApache]

Perhaps violent crime was up because Prescott was slapping people around again? ....that's when he's not abusing his priviledges by using taxpayers money to have his wife chauffeured to the hairdressers. Very egalitarian I'm sure.
Some of the biggest crooks going are in Bliars cabinet.