Crime over the generations.

posting ur email address on a public forum is not a good idea btw. Just a tip for you ;)

And shouldn't you be grooming a dog or something? ;)
 
I think it is because if you are a kid in the years your talking about then you don't see it or think about it etc, your more occupied with being a kid and doing what kids do.

As you get a lot older you think about things a lot more, plus there is the internet etc and all the ways to access information, news travel fast these days.
 
Conm8 said:
If they legalised weed I am sure it wouldn't be so bad. But they don't want that now do they. They'd be no crimes!
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Driving under the influence of weed? (not like those wonderful weed smokers would ever do such a thing :rolleyes: )
 
I heard there's a link (or correlation) between the phasing out of leaded fuel and a reduction in crime. Obviously correlation is not causation, but you have to wonder what affect lead and other common substances we now know to be harmful had on the human mind.
 
Definitely seems like crime has gotten a lot worse from when i was a kid. Even the dogs walk around in 3s where i live!! They are so scared!
 
Well the experts (who ever they might be) can't agree if there are fewer or more crimes, neither can I.

A few years ago a guy bought a house near us and was converting it into 4 flats, the house was NOT occupied day or night. We watched the progress when we went to the nearby pub. We noticed that the guy had had a new panelled fence erected. A day later my wife was driving home from work and noticed a gang of yobs trashing the new fence. She told me and I phoned the police. What response did I get? "Well Mr Belly, how do you that the owner didn't give those youths permission to tear down the fence?" As such she wouldn't do anything about and assured me that the police would NOT go to the scene to investigate. Good Hey?

A year or so later, the county crime figures show a reduction in crime. The next year or so, we were told that the county police force were having their numbers reduced due to the drop in crime. Of course the police federation were up-in-arms about it, suggesting that numbers should NOT be reduced. How could they support their argument if reported crimes are NOT logged?

In my opinion it would be much better to record all crimes, try and do something about some of them and tell the population the truth. Fudging the figures doesn't work in my book.
 
Belly said:
Well the experts (who ever they might be) can't agree if there are fewer or more crimes, neither can I.
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What? The stats from both the British Crime Survey and recorded crime both show a long term decrease. That is pretty obvious to anyone who looks at the evidence.

Belly said:
A few years ago a guy bought a house near us and was converting it into 4 flats, the house was NOT occupied day or night. We watched the progress when we went to the nearby pub. We noticed that the guy had had a new panelled fence erected. A day later my wife was driving home from work and noticed a gang of yobs trashing the new fence. She told me and I phoned the police. What response did I get? "Well Mr Belly, how do you that the owner didn't give those youths permission to tear down the fence?" As such she wouldn't do anything about and assured me that the police would NOT go to the scene to investigate. Good Hey?
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If that happened to me I would have put a complaint in. That response is unacceptable.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
What? The stats from both the British Crime Survey and recorded crime both show a long term decrease. That is pretty obvious to anyone who looks at the evidence.
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Yes Burnsy but I seem to remember taking note that certain crimes (possibly drug related crimes, murder etc) are NOT included in the stats and as such those crimes were on the increase? The people feeding the information, didn't say if the net decrease in recorded crimes added to the increase in the crimes which don't go in the stats was greater or lesser than the previous reported stat if you see what I mean?

Burnsy2023 said:
If that happened to me I would have put a complaint in. That response is unacceptable.
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Yes, but after spending x number of minutes suggesting to the person answering the police call that I felt it unlikely that any 'normal' person who had just had a new 50 metre fence installed would the next day ask some yobos to trash it, I felt that I was wasting my time and as such that if I awoke to find part of my dividing panel fence had been vandalised I'd probably NOT have bothered reporting it. Hypothetical I know but it is certainly one way of making members of the public, like me, think it's NOT worth reporting most petty crimes. That will keep the stats down.

I used to have a policeman living next door (ex Royal Marine, Falkland's Vet) he moved about half a mile away, we were friends. Later we had problems with yobs on the street, one yob told one of my neighbours that he was going to burn his house down with the family inside. I was going to sort it out. The policeman came to see me and advised me that I was just what the police/welfare/do gooder service was looking for. He said "Belly we can break you, you have a good job, military pension, no previous convictions you're just what the system is looking for. If you try and sort it out yourself, the whole system will come down on the side of the yobs, poor background, unemployed etc, you haven't got a chance, you'll probably go to prison, don't do it!" I took notice of what he said.

He did the decent thing and emigrated to New Zealand
 
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