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Old 01-24-2013, 11:08 AM
 
Location: London, UK
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Crime in England and Wales has fallen by 8% between 2011 and 2012 - what do you think has caused this?

Crime statistics for England & Wales: what's happening to each offence? | News | guardian.co.uk
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Old 01-24-2013, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Somewhere out there.
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Including a 5% drop in violent crime? What with no guns to defend people? How can this possibly be?

Hmm....
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Old 01-25-2013, 06:50 PM
 
Location: Baldock, hertfordshire, England
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Non reporting probably.

In the past couple of years ive been assualted, had a laptop stolen, credit card skimmed and been threatened by a knife weilding individual. Whats the point in reporting them though. Its not like the pigs do anything.
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Old 01-26-2013, 03:30 AM
 
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anyone see that BBC article which suggests teens occupied with smartphones and all this newer technology is the reason why graffiti crime has fallen in the UK?

i cant find the article now
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Old 01-26-2013, 06:03 AM
 
Location: London, UK
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anyone see that BBC article which suggests teens occupied with smartphones and all this newer technology is the reason why graffiti crime has fallen in the UK?

i cant find the article now
Yeah I heard that on the news. Makes a little sense young people are distracted so commit less crime
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Old 01-26-2013, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
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Yeah I heard that on the news. Makes a little sense young people are distracted so commit less crime
Well, hopefully it doesn't just turn to kids doing snatch-and-grabs for peoples' phones on the street or in buses the way it has in some US cities

My sister was standing by the rear door of a bus in SF and at a stop, a young guy grabbed her phone. She held onto it and started punching him with the other hand, but a group of hipsters though she was attacking him and pulled her off him... in the process, she dropped her phone, and he ran back onto the bus, grabbed it, and then ran off
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Old 01-26-2013, 01:44 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Non reporting probably.

In the past couple of years ive been assualted, had a laptop stolen, credit card skimmed and been threatened by a knife weilding individual. Whats the point in reporting them though. Its not like the pigs do anything.
You did actually report all this, right?
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Old 01-26-2013, 01:56 PM
 
Location: London, UK
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Well, hopefully it doesn't just turn to kids doing snatch-and-grabs for peoples' phones on the street or in buses the way it has in some US cities

My sister was standing by the rear door of a bus in SF and at a stop, a young guy grabbed her phone. She held onto it and started punching him with the other hand, but a group of hipsters though she was attacking him and pulled her off him... in the process, she dropped her phone, and he ran back onto the bus, grabbed it, and then ran off
Yeah they actually has been a increase in phone thefts in London. They call it 'snatch and grab'
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Old 01-27-2013, 04:23 AM
 
Location: SW France
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I didn't have a smartphone when I was a kid, but i never felt the need to write graffiti.

I agree with LAWS- many people have given up on reporting crime.
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Old 01-27-2013, 04:39 AM
 
Location: Leeds, England
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Non reporting probably.

In the past couple of years ive been assualted, had a laptop stolen, credit card skimmed and been threatened by a knife weilding individual. Whats the point in reporting them though. Its not like the pigs do anything.
Maybe this attitude is the reason so many things have happened to you.
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