From the beeb.
Maths was never my strong point but all the figures are up but crime as a whole is stable, maybe they ignored a few thousand speeding fines to level the overall picture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4949878.stm
Robberies up 6% but crime stable
There were nearly 1.4 million recorded crimes in late 2005
The number of robberies committed between October and December last year was up 6% on the same period a year earlier, the Home Office has said.
Quarterly crime statistics for England and Wales also showed that drug offences rose 21%, sex offences were up 3% and violent crime up 1%.
However, the report said overall reported crime showed no overall change when comparing the two periods. There were 1,377,100 recorded offences during the last three months of 2005. This was stable, as in the previous quarter recorded offences had fallen 1% to 1.37m incidents.
Maths was never my strong point but all the figures are up but crime as a whole is stable, maybe they ignored a few thousand speeding fines to level the overall picture.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4949878.stm
Robberies up 6% but crime stable
There were nearly 1.4 million recorded crimes in late 2005
The number of robberies committed between October and December last year was up 6% on the same period a year earlier, the Home Office has said.
Quarterly crime statistics for England and Wales also showed that drug offences rose 21%, sex offences were up 3% and violent crime up 1%.
However, the report said overall reported crime showed no overall change when comparing the two periods. There were 1,377,100 recorded offences during the last three months of 2005. This was stable, as in the previous quarter recorded offences had fallen 1% to 1.37m incidents.
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