Wednesday, April 19, 2006
But the crime rate is down
Here are statistics that put other statistics in doubt.
Couldn't happen here in the U.S., could it?...
Couldn't happen here in the U.S., could it?...
In the U.K.'s Daily Mail, "Muggings go unreported in despair at police":
"If, as research cited by Demos suggests, police are not told of 58 per cent of muggings, the 80,780 offences recorded last year would in reality number 192,000."
"More than half the public have lost faith in the police."
"The list of unreported crimes also includes 35 per cent of violent attacks by strangers, 38 per cent of burglaries and 42 per cent of thefts from vehicles."
