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""the English police still grossly underreport crimes"

It was about 12 years ago that the Washington Times ran a story on comparing the amount of crime during the day in D.C. to London.

Yeah, gang murder was higher here, but daytime armed breakins were astronomical there. 6 x's higher.

I truly can't understand why the left thinks this a good thing.

"the English police still grossly underreport crimes"

I think one ploy they have been using is to report multiple occurances of the same crime as one crime. That is ten break-ins in one apartment block = one crime.

BTW, what ever happened to those tough Tommies who chased Rommel out of Africa?

I truly can't understand why the left thinks this a good thing.

Because the elite live in gated communities with armed guards, and because crime is effective at keeping the 'little people' in their place.

I truly can't understand why the left thinks this a good thing.

Because a country rife with crime, and especially with a strong government and powerless people, is better than a strong and free country who citizens are armed - to leftists.

A central plank to the broader leftist platform is coaxing a clamor out of the masses for fool-proof police "protection" against criminals. This hue and cry will be used as a springboard to the complete abolition of privately held firearms of any kind. (Britain's close to it, as it is now.) Needless to say, police will never be an effective crime STOPPING entity. And the irony of the fact that the left largely created the criminal class now preying on the English sheep is never mentioned in polite circles. Look for a similar approach coming soon to an American city near you. It's no coincidence that the average American 'liberal' can be counted on to demand two things: gun seizure and the emptying of our prisons. Take your revolver from you and turn a mob of rapists and burglars loose to pry their prison-honed skills on the helpless public. Our Democratic pols WANT us to suffer a wave of crime similar to that raging through merry old England. Without a plague of mayhem, there will be little or no demand for government to come and 'help' us by watching us 24/7, seizing the contents of our gun cabinets and stopping us for interogation every time we venture onto a public street.

"the English police still grossly underreport crimes"

British police use a trick for reporting crime statistics. If a single thief robs 12 houses this is reported as 1 crime. In the US this is reported as 12 crimes. Comparing statistics is thus very difficult.