Crime in England and Wales

[Dauphin]

I was thinking of an Andy Parsons comment

"Police numbers have been reduced. Police said this would lead to an increase in crime. In fact, crime has decreased. That’s a bit embarrassing for the police. The best interpretation is that police numbers have little effect on crime – the worst interpretation, that the police were causing a lot of the crime."

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Do the stats include white collar (mostly bank) crimes. They just keep on coming out the woodwork..

It's extremely unlikely that they would crop up in the Crime Survey. I can't see anyone going "Why yes! Yes I was a victim of LIBOR rigging!". And the sparcity of actual criminal convictions would make its presence in police figures negligible.

[molly bloom]

recommended me to go to Slough if I wanted to see things like that, but I never got round to it.

Not one of my favourite poets, but this is always amusing :

Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/bigread/bigread_betjeman.shtml

[Dauphin]

It's extremely unlikely that they would crop up in the Crime Survey. I can't see anyone going "Why yes! Yes I was a victim of LIBOR rigging!". And the sparcity of actual criminal convictions would make its presence in police figures negligible.

I know I lead with the chin in the way I phrased it, but it was a rhetorical statement with no question mark. The fact that there is a massive amount of economic crime not reflected in any crime stats is kinda my point.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

There's a massive amount of all types of crime not reflected in any crime stats. Hell, look at Harold Shipman. We suddenly acquired 200+ murders that nobody had noticed before.