Category Archives: Crime

The BBC has its own clear agenda on crime which is advanced on a daily basis. Here we have a Biased BBC reader picking up on one strand of this bias.

“Even though it may impact rather positively on the coalition, the BBC are determined to tackle the ‘fear of violent crime’  which liberal minded commentators often like to tell us is actually worse than violent crime itself. In this case, they tell us of falling crime levels. There is no suggestion that people don’t bother reporting crime anymore because of changes to the police ‘service’;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18900384

These are the lowest rates since 1983, which is not something I anticipate the BBC connecting with Thatcher being in government. Not only do they hate the woman (as confirmed by Mark Thompson) but it would also seem to cast doubt on the theory that poverty causes crime. And we are often given accounts of what a terrible Dickensian society Britain turned into in the 1980s. In fact, one look at the graph shows crime at its very worse under New Labour.

”Officials said the fall in homicide figures was not unique to England and Wales and there had been reductions in Europe, Asia and North America since the mid 1990s.”

Despite the awful effects of austerity across the globe!? NEVER!

No mention at the BBC that in Kent, over half of murder suspects are non-UK citizens or any of the other figures relating to crime caused by immigrants;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9410827/A-fifth-of-murder-and-rape-suspects-are-immigrants.html

Why doesn’t it surprise me that they haven’t reported who is committing most crime?”

Well, I’ve been away for a few days and didn’t listen to the BBC but that changed this morning, God, but it is bad, isn’t it? This morning we had Diana Fulbrook of the Probations Chief’s Association on to shill for a liberal approach to those who commit serious crimes, following on from the BBC’s approval of Ken Clarke’s ludicrous statement that there is no connection between sending people to prison and falling crime levels. It seems to me that the BBC is in rapture to Ken Clarke’s uber-liberal approach to our Justice system.

Another teenager has been stabbed to death in London and the BBC want to discuss the issue. Partially. The issue is framed very carefully and the elephant in the room which the BBC will not discuss is the blunt fact that much of this gang culture is black youth driven. The BBC talks about the knives, not about who is wielding them. Why not? Is it because it pierces a hole in the multicultural dream so beloved of the State Broadcaster and exposes the tragic breakdown of family life in the black community?

I don’t know about you but I have to say that I read the item title “Cameras capture Lorry Death Pair” with some disgust. This story relates to images captured on CCTV of little 9 year old Stacey Lawrence and her suspected murderer, Darren Walker, her mother’s boyfriend. Walker is suspected of sexually assaulting this child before strangling her. He later hanged himself. My point is that there is a chilling insensitivity in this heading – they were not a pair – and whilst it is not biased per se it does show stupendous crassness.

Few will doubt the calibre of person the BBC employs.

Wow – the BBC must have a fascinating recruitment process that can facilitate such a person to obtain such a lucrative position.

I caught the PM news headlines this evening on BBC Radio 4 and they were feverishly retailing the notion that crime is at an all-time low in England and Wales. There was a consistent stream of government friendly sound-bites from the PM gang suggesting that it is only our “perceptions” about crime that we now have to fear. The BBC breathlessly relates that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is “extremely pleased” at this welcome “news”. I wonder if she is related to the Jacqui Smith who announced that she would not feel safe walking the streets of London after dark? Perhaps crime has tumbled since she said that back in January?

Lord David Ramsbotham – three words that strike fear into the heart of anyone concerned about the criminal justice system.. You see Sir David is the kind of guy who thinks a criminal is just a friend you haven’t met yet and he was on the BBC this morning pleading for government to spend more of our taxes creating a to back a network of young offender “academies”. The aim would be to provide continuity for offenders aged 10 to 18 before, during and after periods in custody. Access to a range of health, education, and family support services would be offered, to try to stop re-offending. He got a sympathetic hearing from the BBC, as you might expect – no tough questions at all, no articulated concern for the victims of these teenage thugs. The BBC is in harmony with Ramsbotham’s view that crime is the consequence of parental neglect, truancy or eviction from school, lack of meaningful employment, drugs, violence and other causes. Individual culpability is not considered – society is to blame, guv. The thing is that Ramsbotham is never off the BBC, pontificating ever more ludicrous schemes to shift responsibility for crime away from the criminal and onto the victims of crime. He must give thanks that the BBC is always there – ready to provide a public pulpit for him and his soft on crime notions.