It's down, I tell you. Today we have those Home Office annual Crime Stats. And the Big News is that CRIME IS DOWN.As the BBC has been headlining all day, police recorded crime is down 9% over the year. And that's without even needing to fall back on the murky British Crime Survey opinion poll (see previous blogs),Great.Except... in that case, why do we all think crime is going up - Prog Con spokesma...

Commenting on today’s crime figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The public has lost faith in the crime figures. The Government tells them crime is falling but a rising number of people - now two thirds - think it is getting worse. If crime and the fear of crime are to be tackled, Labour and the Tories must stop posturing on penalties and start focusing on what...

Home Office - This publication presents the most recent crime statistics from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime.

Gordon Brown launches a new strategy targeting "new kinds" of crime such as knife crime, organised crime, e-crime and identity theft.

Why is Gordon Brown still Prime Minister ? Both the BBC and The Times quote him, without seeming to notice or care about exactly what nonsense or deceit he was uttering:: Mr Brown told a crime conference in west London: "We face new kinds of crime - especially knife crime, organised crime, e-crime and identity theft BBC: Brown unveils anti-crime strategy The Times:

Last year it was gun crime, this year it is knife crime, and next year it will be blunt object crime. There is hardly a day that passes without a headline about another young man who has been stabbed, usually in south London. And this is not to be dismissed. It is a serious issue. Regardless of the overall statistics, which show violent crime to be quite low compared to, say, the early 1990s, the ...

Mr. Morley The link between quality of life and crime is an important issue for the police. Sometimes, the police think that low-level nuisance crime is not a priority and that they should concentrate on more serious crime. They should be doing that, but cracking down on low-level, antisocial, nuisance crime, including environmental crime, will deter more serious crime. Sometimes, some individual ...

Yesterday's News of the World included an ICM poll of under 25s about knife crime. Considering that the British Crime Survey doesn't include juvenile crime, and that while actual stabbing will very probably end up as recorded crime figures, people carrying knives, or waving knives about probably won't, it gives an interesting view of exactly

Tough on the causes of crime As far as crime is concerned the Conservatives walk on water. Throughout the ages the Tories have been viewed as the party of authority. This has not changed under the leadership of David Cameron despite his focus on the "causes of crime" rather than being "tough on crime"   If we look back

Yesterday Chris Huhne set out the party’s approach to cutting youth crime: “If we want to tackle the problem of youth crime, we need to take action early to stop kids from embarking on a life of crime before it’s too late. “The old parties are falling over each other trying to be tough on crime, but