I suppose part of the issue is that an average person has a decent chance of becoming a victim of _some crime_. Phones snatched, bikes stolen, leafy suburbs are seeing carjackings – all of these are relatively common and feels like aren’t taken seriously, citing resources or the scale of the crime. This is the type of stuff people feel and vote on
TL;DR for those who only read the headline:
– No he hasn’t; it’s all right-wing nutters & Tories spouting bullshit. As usual.
The fact that crime hasn’t really increased does not imply in any way that the countermeasures taken are adequate and there isn’t more that can be done.
In some cities phones aren’t snatched
What in the bloody hell is going on in Cleveland? (And uh, what is Cleveland anyway)
One thing that is always missed when discussing crime rates, is what it could or should be.
Yes – its good if crime falls, but it should fall as technology and general human development improves. It should be close to 0. We have CCTV and more ability than ever to deter and solve crime. We also have less absolute poverty than ever.
Looking at these charts. We should all be like Japan. The US is failing worse than us, but that in no way justifies us not being closer to Japan. Japan also used to have way more crime up until about 2000)
The knife crime chart from the Guardian is pretty telling with London being one of the only places trending in the wrong direction.
YES.
He has. Just last friday I was coming out the pub when him with 3 youths pulled a knife on me and made me withdraw £200 from a cash point.
It’s the guardian – of course he hasn’t
Yes
With that acid attack twat I don’t get how the police didn’t track him via cctv straight away.
What’s the point of soo much cctv if they can’t track you easy.
He’s the worst thing that happened to London since WW2.
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I suppose part of the issue is that an average person has a decent chance of becoming a victim of _some crime_. Phones snatched, bikes stolen, leafy suburbs are seeing carjackings – all of these are relatively common and feels like aren’t taken seriously, citing resources or the scale of the crime. This is the type of stuff people feel and vote on
TL;DR for those who only read the headline:
– No he hasn’t; it’s all right-wing nutters & Tories spouting bullshit. As usual.
The fact that crime hasn’t really increased does not imply in any way that the countermeasures taken are adequate and there isn’t more that can be done.
In some cities phones aren’t snatched
What in the bloody hell is going on in Cleveland? (And uh, what is Cleveland anyway)
One thing that is always missed when discussing crime rates, is what it could or should be.
Yes – its good if crime falls, but it should fall as technology and general human development improves. It should be close to 0. We have CCTV and more ability than ever to deter and solve crime. We also have less absolute poverty than ever.
[https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00888/](https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00888/)
Looking at these charts. We should all be like Japan. The US is failing worse than us, but that in no way justifies us not being closer to Japan. Japan also used to have way more crime up until about 2000)
The knife crime chart from the Guardian is pretty telling with London being one of the only places trending in the wrong direction.
YES.
He has. Just last friday I was coming out the pub when him with 3 youths pulled a knife on me and made me withdraw £200 from a cash point.
It’s the guardian – of course he hasn’t
Yes
With that acid attack twat I don’t get how the police didn’t track him via cctv straight away.
What’s the point of soo much cctv if they can’t track you easy.
He’s the worst thing that happened to London since WW2.