Another quandary for the BBC….they’ve had the problem of Thatcher’s success to cope with as mentioned in the last post, they’ve had the inconvenient fact that unemployment has been going down…’the great puzzle’….and now they are confronted with another bothersome fact…crime is going down.
Mark Easton has decided this too is a riddle…though never when Labour was in power.
The riddle of peacefulness
All a bit of a conundrum apparently.
He jumps about looking at various academic theories as to why this might be.
One thing of note might be ‘The correlation between policing levels and violent crime in the UK is “very weak”.
But anyway, no matter, Easton, the reporter, has his own theory which he isn’t shy about sharing with us.
‘Could it be that global communication, particularly the internet, is having a civilising and calming effect on people’s behaviour? We live in an age when, for the first time in history, people from all backgrounds can get an understanding of how the rest of the world lives without needing to leave the comfort of their living room.’
Ah yes…multi-culturalism….can’t let that old hogwash be consigned to the dustbin of historic failures.
This is precisely what we need from BBC journo’s…philosophy and creative theorizing….personally I’d just prefer a few facts from which I can dream up my own wild conjectures without a BBC hack trying to ‘educate’ me and mould my thoughts.
Surely it is Coca Cola that is the real crime reduction catalyst, the ‘real thing’ furnishing the world with love and perfect harmony from darkest Africa to the Steppes of the Ukraine….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NeogMh1JI
And we know the BBC loves Coke.
And the five least peaceful local authorities are
1. Lewisham, London
2. Lambeth, London
3. Hackney, London
4. Newham, London
5. Tower Hamlets, London
But Mark Easton certainly doesn’t want to mention the elephant in the room. Does anyone have any idea why these might be the most crime-ridden parts of Britain?
They are London Boroughs were Labour are the party controlling the Council?
If I’m right can I have a cookie?
There are Labour councils in London? Blimey. I thought Thatcher had done away with all that nonsense.
I live in Manchester where you can’t move for Labour councils.
Only two stabbings in the last month within half a mile of where I live.
Mulitculturism is flourishing, though so it’s not all bad.
Aha, a clue…”multiculturalism is flourishing”.
Arthur’s five least peaceful local authorities are full of hideous whites!
Oh, we have our fair share of those, I won’t deny it.
I don’t actually know who was responsible for the stabbings – one was just today.
I just know that multiculturism is flourishing.
“Does anyone have any idea why these might be the most crime-ridden parts of Britain?”
I think it’s the same reason that whites are also leaving the capital, but the last BBC article about that was equally…erm..obfuscatory.
Ssssshhhhh.
http://tinyurl.com/dymjk4w
Any reasonably intelligent criminal would go robbing where there was more wealth to be redistributed – the most crime-riddled should be the Tory boroughs. The conundrum is that so many criminals are lazy, they simply attack or rob their neighbours. Its always Labour voters that suffers the most from Labour policies. Was it ever thus.
“Labour councils fail to collect £2 BILLION tax”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/394601/Labour-councils-fail-to-collect-2BILLION-tax
Bloody tax avoiders. What is the penalty for such behaviour these days? The last I heard it was somewhere between fifty lashes and a month watching Jeremy Kyle re-runs.
Creepy reminder of ‘Zardoz’.
Easton draws unwarranted conclusions.
For someone like Easton, who claims some knowledge of statistics, this is simply another Beeboid opinionated piece.
‘And we know the BBC loves Coke.’
Depending.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22280297
As a parent I am keen on accurate information and sensible guidance in such areas.
However, as a parent, drive-by #prasnews such as this is daft and renders any value useless scaremongering:
‘A can a day raises the relative risk of Type-2 diabetes by about a fifth, compared with one can a month or under’
I see that the only crime that increased is pickpocketing;
another enrichment from Eastern Europe.
Mugging was a popular pastime amongs our ethnic cousins even back in the late 60’s in Lewisham as my wife found out whilst shopping in that rich and diverse shopping centre. We moved out shortly afterwards,as have family and friends. After all, one can only take so much cultural enrichment.
Has crime decreased? Really? You’d never know that from the news …
The answer is obvious and I’m sure that the BBC will soon be broadcasting it from the roof tops.
Falling crime across the developed world is a triumph of the liberal left policy and a defeat for the flog ’em and hang ’em dinosaurs.
After 50 years of almost universal adoption of the liberal left policy of:
>Its never the criminal’s fault
>Prison isn’t a deterrent unless you make it a bit unpleasant which is an abuse of human right
> Victims often get what they deserve
> Poverty is the cause of crime, so lets spend load of money of tax payers money, sorry I mean invest on these deprived communities
> Often crime is a protest by the disadvantaged, so lets ensure that even if some groups do commit disproportionately more crime we don’t talk about it ,or we blame the host community for not making them feel sufficiently welcome. Then we can spend more tax payers money, sorry I meant invest, on community cohesion projects that employ our friends in the local town hall
> Human rights trumps any other consideration, even ones regarding the safety of the country
> If all else fails we will just not register crimes as crimes and that will solve any inconvenient truths.
They must think we are incredibly stupid if they think we believe that crime is falling. They are just changing the way they measure it.
A lot of crime is not being reported, the victims being of the opinion that the Police will do little but give them a crime reference number for insurance purposes. It doesn’t take all that many victims to think it’s pointless reporting crime to a less than competent Police Service (God how I hate that title!) to lead to a 5 – 7% drop in recorded crime.
Have you tried reporting a crime? I got an email reassuring me theft is a priority, but nothing else other than a phone number for “Victim Support”
Cynical basterds – I don’t mean the police – like anyone they just want an easy life – it’s the people in charge who let them away with it – the dwindling number of New Labour placemen, now replaced by clueless Police Commissioners, like that useless quango-lite woman in Kent and her “youth adviser”
Policing is difficult when Labour-rigged judicial system consist of Labour-appointees guaranteed freedom from “politcal interference”. God that Bliar was a cunning (unprintable). Long after he has left office, Labour Zombies still at the helm, buttressed by EU-diktat.
Great moniker I saw on a web comment: CompareTheMarxists.com
What Democracy?
the trouble all started when we criminalised criminals.
Now we’ve stopped doing that crime is falling. easy realy