The spiralling problem with gun culture was highlighted by figures that show 28 firearms crimes are committed in England and Wales every day.Couldn't they have a lie-in or a buyback or something--you know, something that's been proven to work...?
There were 10,182 firearms offences in the year to the end of September compared with 9,755 in the previous 12 months - an increase of more than 400 crimes, or more than eight every week.And those are just the crimes that were reported, mind you. If businesses are only reporting one in eight 8 crimes, what do you think the chances are those living in or around the criminal subculture have a higher rate?
Or that the ones being reported are properly accounted for?
"Spiralling" indeed. Like down the drain and into the sewer.
[Via Paul W. Davis]
All of the UK's problems are happening on an island! But if GA. and every other Southern state bans all guns, NY city won't have a problem with criminals using guns. Yeah. Right. Idiots.
ReplyDeleteThink the reporting rate is bad?
ReplyDeleteThen check out this reporting:
A recent attempt to cover up soaring crime rates
Last year a poster on the KABA website reported his experiences with crime in NYC, and how a number of violent crimes in his neighborhood, and even in his building, were ignored and went uninvestigated and unreported by the NYPD.
ReplyDeleteI have observed the same behavior in the PD of my small, rural town. Crime stats, especially meth and other drug crimes, almost never make it into the public record. Even though, for some reason, my county sheriff's dept has a refurbished Army-surplus armored personnel carrier in it's equipment inventory.
I strongly suspect, with only anecdotal evidence to go on, that every city in the USA underreports it's crime stats.
Doesn't surprise me that Britain does it, too.