Falling crime rates?
Tom Jackson responds to last week's article about criminal justice
Alan Russell questions why (13 November), with falling crime levels, is the fear of crime so widespread? When considering crime statistics one is immediately confronted by two different methods used in establishing criminal activity: police records, the first method recording all crimes reported, and the British Crime Survey, representing the views and opinions on crime of a sample of the population, whether victims or not.
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Alan also says that ‘Even prison numbers are going down.’ Regrettably, this does not seem to be the case. While there are minor fluctuations from week to week some recent figures are: 13 November 2009 - 84,593; 14 August 2009 - 84,154; 15 May 82,940; ... At best, it looks as if all we can say is that the rate of increase has slackened.