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From: "Lee Penzias" <l_penzias@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Steve,
>I won't belabor the point beyond this (and only because you state it is
"ridiculous" - it's not); London (esp SE London) has the highest crime rate
in the UK - day or night. I could repeat what I said and insert "12 noon".
Media hype aside, certain crime there has rocketed (Home Office figures)
there to what it was even 10 years ago.<
The point is that if you measure crime rates by area then somewhere will
have the highest rate and somewhere will have the lowest rate.
These was an area in the northeast, a small comunity with an astonishingly
high petty crime rate. It turned out that it was all down to one individual.
When he was caught the crime rate dropped to almost zero. Now, you could
argue that the police in that area have the best record on clearing up petty
crime in the country, but all they did was arrest one person. Throwing
statistics about is meaningless.
These figures are all nonsense anyway because we are talking about
_recorded_ crimes. It may simply be that no more crimes are committed, but
more are recorded, quiter likley with CCTV in most towns and more
neighbourhood watch scemes.
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