Lambeth Chief Supt Martin Bridger celebrating

[Minnie_the_Minx]

From the South London Press

"A CHIEF superintendent says new figures should dispel the public's fear of crime. Lambeth Chief Supt Martin Bridger is celebrating after releasing data which shows significant reductions.

Recorded crime across the borough has fallen for the sixth year running.

Rates of street robbery and vehicle theft have seen the most significant downturn.

Vehicle crime dropped from 8,986 in 2001 to 4,625 last year. During the same period muggings fell from 3,054 to 1,368.

But the top cop has admitted people are still afraid of being the target of criminals."



Nothing to do with diddling the figures and putting people down as having "lost property on the street" rather that "robbed" then :rolleyes:

[waverunner]

Those are massive drops though to be put down solely to messing with stats etc...

[Stobart Stopper]

These people live in cloud cuckoo land.
Does he ever get seen walking the beat? Around the market or anywhere like that?

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Those are massive drops though to be put down solely to messing with stats etc...


well if they just put half the muggings down to "property lost"... :D

[detective-boy]

well if they just put half the muggings down to "property lost"... :D
In my experience that sort of scale of drop could not be just down to fiddling about with classifications. There will be a significant genuine fall there (unless the figures are altogether wrong (as in not added up properly)).

[Donna Ferentes]

Double brackets are a crime against grammar. Call the Punctuation Police!

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Double brackets are a crime against grammar. Call the Punctuation Police!


They're busy at the moment so asked us to deal with the incident

http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/images/2005/10/03/grammar_police_car_203x152.jpg

[Donna Ferentes]

Man, arrest that officer!

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Double brackets are a crime against grammar. Call the Punctuation Police!


Awarded to Donna Ferentes

http://home.comcast.net/~stormkatt/Portfolio/Logos/GrammarPolice.gif

[Donna Ferentes]

It's a pleasure to do my duty, ma'am.

[Mrs Magpie]

So why are there boards outside the tube saying something along the lines of there has been an increase in street robbery in the area so be vigilant :confused:

[trashpony]

They're busy at the moment so asked us to deal with the incident

http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/images/2005/10/03/grammar_police_car_203x152.jpg

:cool:

*Saves picture*

[Donna Ferentes]

So why are there boards outside the tube saying something along the lines of there has been an increase in street robbery in the area so be vigilant :confused:Conceivably one claim relates to the area close to the Tube, the other to the whole of Lambeth?

[waverunner]

So why are there boards outside the tube saying something along the lines of there has been an increase in street robbery in the area so be vigilant :confused:
There's one like that outside Streatham Hill station but it looks like it's been there for donkeys years.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So why are there boards outside the tube saying something along the lines of there has been an increase in street robbery in the area so be vigilant :confused:



they'll probably claim that since those signs went up street robbery has dropped

[Brixton Hatter]

So why are there boards outside the tube saying something along the lines of there has been an increase in street robbery in the area so be vigilant :confused:
there's also one of those at kennington cross, just near oval tube - saying kids on bikes are nicking people's phones. it's been there a while now..but i guess if you were a kid on a bike ready to nick something, you wouldn't hang around near the sign...

e2a - haven't the police been doing some sort of operation badger or something over the last few months/6 months, targeting street crime? there certainly was something around christmas time...that might explain the drop...?

[rich!]

Double brackets are a crime against grammar. Call the Punctuation Police!
(you (have lisp) (used never))

[rich!]

e2a - haven't the police been doing some sort of operation badger or something over the last few months

I think you're thinking of Operation Badger Kitten, a deep long-term COINTELPRO operation to enable Tony to destroy public transport in London once and for all...

[detective-boy]

I think you're thinking of Operation Badger Kitten, a deep long-term COINTELPRO operation to enable Tony to destroy public transport in London once and for all...
:D :D :D

[CPCG]

Recorded crime across the borough has fallen for the sixth year running.

Rates of street robbery and vehicle theft have seen the most significant downturn.

Vehicle crime dropped from 8,986 in 2001 to 4,625 last year. During the same period muggings fell from 3,054 to 1,368.

Last year was a good one for Lambeth in that gains of the past five years were sustained an additional improvements squeezed out in some areas. For example, Lambeth showed a small reduction in personal robbery against a rise across London generally.

However, the figures above from the SLP are something of a mystery which the police are unable to explain...clearly a glitch somewhere along the line.

Details can be found here (http://www.downloads.lambethcpcg.org.uk/Police%20Report%200605.pdf). Headlines page 1 et seq, detailed figures page 17 onwards.

Longer term trends are here (http://www.downloads.lambethcpcg.org.uk/CrimeStatsMonthlyCurrent.pdf)

[Droppin']

I can't see how they think car crime has fallen!

Some of the suped-up supercharged technicolour pimp mobiles I see driving round the borough when I'm out and about are nothing but criminal