SkyBlueFlux
Well-Known Member
Anyone who actually believes those statistics is clinically insane.
I looked at the report and those are the numbers it says but there’s a huge caveat at the bottom to say that it’s based on police reported figures. So if people don’t bother reporting crimes then they won’t be in these numbers. It also says there are concerns with consistency in the way different police forces capture these numbers. They are given targets based on these numbers and, as a wise former manager once told me, any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure.
It is also cherry picking because if we are to believe these numbers then the Labour government from 1997-2010 actually decreased crime by a larger percentage during their tenure, these numbers were falling rapidly already when the Tories took it over.
Also strange he doesn’t mention the report stating that anti-social behaviour has tripled since 2013, and the data captured for that is not by police’s own numbers but a different surveying methodology which has remained entirely consistent.
So basically they’re doing great when they’re marking their own homework.