Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

The violent crime rate in London is atrocious, the last figures I
saw -taking into account the the police are reluctant to reveal the real
statistics for political reasons -

The figures that you read about are from the Home Office, not the police
themselves. Police don't reveal figures because the raw figures are
potentially misleading. It has nothing to do with politics, that is the
job of the Home Office. They are also *reported* crimes. In other words
they are only the crimes that someone has been bothered to report and
they *may* have reported the wrong crime (e.g. a number of allegations
of theft of motor vehicle should really be classified as an insurance
fraud). Add to that certain criteria that the Home Office impose (I
don't know about today but they used to only allow a murder to be
classified as such when/if a person was convicted of murder). The
figures often only represent the faith that the victim has that the
crime will be solved. Think of it like some of those dodgy weather
forecasts we hear. To the uninitiated, they probably sound quite plausible.

were showing one gang rape per week, at
least several killings a week topped up with plenty of stabbings, muggings
and vandalism at an unprecedented levels.

That sound very conservative. Crime was like that several years ago when
I was a serving Met Police officer. I'm sure it has got worse since then.

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Howard Neil