Thursday - July 02, 2009

The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. ..

I hate seeing that but am not surprised one bit.

I’ve been following this subject for awhile and have been aghast at the rate of crime, and the nature of same, in a country I once thought of as among the safest.

I clearly recall some 25 years ago, being able to walk streets quite late and seeing others do the same with no fear.  Try that today. I dare ya.

There isn’t any real honest to gosh penalty to discourage the bad guys and sadly now, women as well in greater numbers. And many not yet women but young girls.  ASBOS are not the answer and neither is giving ppl a break. 

Just yesterday the headlines told us about Bernie Madoff getting 150 years for the biggest ponzi scheme in history.  Good. The bastard deserves to be in jail. But wait a damn minute please.  Why not the same for rapists and killers?  What kind of punishment is deserving of ‘yoots’ who set their victims on fire?
Oh… screw with large amounts of money and it’s jail for life and no time off.

For a long time ppl here kept pointing to my country every time a horrid crime over there was reported. Almost as though they have it better here.
Well, they do not. If they ever did and they may well have , that’s all ancient history.

Was a time here when even many criminals would not carry a gun.  That’s because the penalty was so high.  And the thought of shooting a policeman wasn’t an issue. Well, mostly it wasn’t. Seemed to be some kind of unwritten rule or law about assaults on cops and especially with guns.  But that’s no longer the case.
The UK has something else to worry it that perhaps 25 years ago was only in the far future.  Foreign and illegal criminals and and many who can’t be deported.
So the bottom line is ... a totally defenseless law abiding public.  And I will confess that at my age, that’s a worry more now then ever.

The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

By James Slack
Last updated at 10:34 AM on 02nd July 2009

Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour. 

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party’s election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million - or more than two every minute.

The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

* The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
* It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
* The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
* It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.

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What a sad state of affairs.  If you read the comments by Brits that follow the article, it’s plain the people know the system is screwed and they know why. And they do have answers.  But the powers that be are deaf. I swear they must be. Or else their attitude is much like the late MIL and this isn’t meant to be a joke.

The old lady used to say, “ I hear what I want to and ignore all the rest.”
I think that must be how politics work.  How else would anyone explain where we are now and how we all got here.

Posted by peiper     on 07/02/2009 at 09:44 AM   
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