Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look A Police Crime Statistics

Crime Of The Century - A Chilling Look At Crime Statistics In The UK OFFENCES AS PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL RECORDED CRIME

Violence against the person – with injury Violence against the person – without injury TOTAL VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PERSON OFFENCES

Most serious sexual crime17 Other sexual offences TOTAL SEXUAL OFFENCES TOTAL ROBBERY OFFENCES Total burglary in a dwelling

Total burglary in a building other than a dwelling TOTAL BURGLARY OFFENCES

TOTAL OFFENCES AGAINST VEHICLES OTHER THEFT OFFENCES

TOTAL FRAUD AND FORGERY OFFENCES26,30 TOTAL CRIMINAL DAMAGE OFFENCES

TOTAL PROPERTY CRIME34 TOTAL DRUG OFFENCES

TOTAL OTHER MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES TOTAL RECORDED CRIME – ALL OFFENCES

HOCR NCRS

19971 1998/992 1999/00 2000/01 2001/02 2002/033,4 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 5% 4% 4% 4% 4% 0% 6% 7% 7% 8%

6% 8%

1% 1% 1% 1% 1%

8% 9% 10% 9% 9% 9% 9% 8% 9% 9% 10% 10% 10% 11%

5% 10% 11% 12% 12% 14% 16% 19% 19% 19% 19% 19% 20% 1%

1% 9% 9% 8% 8%

1% 2% 7% 8%

1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%

0.04% 0.25% 0.22% 0.21% 0.20% 0.23% 0.23% 0.27% 0.27% 0.25% 0.24% 0.23% 0.25% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 2% 11% 9% 8% 8% 8% 11%

1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 7% 6% 5% 5% 6% 6% 6% 7%

6% 6% 6% 6% 6% 6%

22% 19% 17% 16% 16% 15% 14% 12% 12% 11% 12% 12% 12% 24% 22% 21% 20% 19% 18% 16% 15% 14% 14% 13% 13% 11% 23% 21% 21% 22% 22% 22% 22% 22% 22% 22% 23% 23% 24%

3% 5% 84% 6% 83% 6% 82% 6% 82%

1% 3% 2% 2% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1%

6%

80% 2% 1%

5% 78% 5% 75% 4% 73% 4% 73% 3% 72% 3% 71% 4%

19% 17% 18% 19% 19% 19% 20% 21% 21% 22% 21% 20% 19% 91%

70%

2% 3% 3% 4% 5% 5% 5% 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 2%

100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% This diagram illustrates the sharp decline in percentage terms of property (volume crime) expressed as a percentage of total recorded crime.

• The steep decline in property crime as a percentage of overall crime is synonymous with one or more of the gaming activities being present, as this is the largest group and most susceptible for the big hit activities referred to earlier in the report. As outlined, whilst this has the outward appearance of reducing crime, in fact officer time is expended on the higher yield, less important matters at the expense of crime that requires greater effort, time and skill to resolve.

• The property group is also the most likely to experience “cuffing” unless an insurance claim is involved, where a crime number is often required to validate the claim. However, even this is not insurmountable, as we have experienced many cases where cases are reported as an “incident” but not subsequently elevated to a “crime” so such cases never appear in the statistics. Burglary & vehicle crime are particularly susceptible to these distortive effects.

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