22% increase in violent crime
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:49 am
Oh labour when are you going to learn......
I wonder if Alistair Campbell was behind the timing of the George Osborne, Peter Mandelson and the russian billionaire "leak" to try and hide this set of figures..........
"Violent crime is up by 22% because the police have failed to record it correctly, according to the Home Office.
Jacqui Smith told Sky News she was not "explaining away" the increase, but said: "We need to be completely confident that we are recording things in the right way.
"We need to account properly so we can deal with it properly."
The Home Secretary explained that in some areas serious violence - such as threatening someone with a broken bottle - was not counted as violent crime.
The category includes serious assault, murder, attempted murder and manslaughter.
Officials said 13 forces were asked to re-examine their figures after they discovered some serious assaults were being recorded in a lower category of offence.
They admitted the under-counting could have been going on for more than 10 years.
Two of the most serious categories of knife crime also shot up after the miscounting was revealed.
Attempted murders in England and Wales involving a knife between April and June this year were 28% up on last year."
Alistair Campbell will spin Labour to another election win......... the man's a master at his art !
I wonder if Alistair Campbell was behind the timing of the George Osborne, Peter Mandelson and the russian billionaire "leak" to try and hide this set of figures..........
"Violent crime is up by 22% because the police have failed to record it correctly, according to the Home Office.
Jacqui Smith told Sky News she was not "explaining away" the increase, but said: "We need to be completely confident that we are recording things in the right way.
"We need to account properly so we can deal with it properly."
The Home Secretary explained that in some areas serious violence - such as threatening someone with a broken bottle - was not counted as violent crime.
The category includes serious assault, murder, attempted murder and manslaughter.
Officials said 13 forces were asked to re-examine their figures after they discovered some serious assaults were being recorded in a lower category of offence.
They admitted the under-counting could have been going on for more than 10 years.
Two of the most serious categories of knife crime also shot up after the miscounting was revealed.
Attempted murders in England and Wales involving a knife between April and June this year were 28% up on last year."
Alistair Campbell will spin Labour to another election win......... the man's a master at his art !