Posted on 10/25/2002 11:34:03 PM PDT by john bell hood
I need some help on statistics on crime and gun crime in Great Britain. Specifically, I'm looking for the annual number of homicides and homicides committed with a gun since at least 1997 to the present. And any other annual data on gun use in crimes would be appreciated.
A headline in the London Daily Telegraph back on April 1, 1996, said it all: "Crime Figures a Sham, Say Police." The story noted that "pressure to convince the public that police were winning the fight against crime had resulted in a long list of ruses to 'massage' statistics," and "the recorded crime level bore no resemblance to the actual amount of crime being committed." For example, where a series of homes were burgled, they were regularly recorded as one crime. If a burglar hit 15 or 20 flats, only one crime was added to the statistics. More recently, a 2000 report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary charges Britain's 43 police departments with systemic under-classification of crime – for example, by recording burglary as "vandalism." The report lays much of the blame on the police's desire to avoid the extra paperwork associated with more serious crimes. Britain's justice officials have also kept crime totals down by being careful about what to count. "American homicide rates are based on initial data, but British homicide rates are based on the final disposition." Suppose that three men kill a woman during an argument outside a bar. They are arrested for murder, but because of problems with identification (the main witness is dead), charges are eventually dropped. In American crime statistics, the event counts as a three-person homicide, but in British statistics it counts as nothing at all. "With such differences in reporting criteria, comparisons of U.S. homicide rates with British homicide rates is a sham," the report concludes.from here: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/21/205139.shtml that should be a help.
And the recidivism rates. Recidivism
I suggest you book mark both and use them on the gun grabbers. They can't dispute the facts..they're gubermint facts!
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