Nottingham Evening Post reports that “GUN crime in Notts has increased 116% in nine years, according to new figures.
There were 240 offences involving guns in the county between April 1 2007 and March 31 2008, compared to 111 in 1998/99. The Notts rise is above both the national and East Midlands average for the same nine year period.”
Under the comments for this article the following interesting point is made.
“A Home Office spokesman said it was “misleading” to compare figures for 2007/9 with those from before 2002, due to changes in recording practices.
The spokesman added: “There has been an 11% fall in gun crime since 2005 and provisional figures for firearm offences recorded by the police show they account for 0.2 per cent of all recorded crime¿.
So the reason for the fall in crime figures is¿¿¿.due to changes in recording practices. QED.”
Follow the link below to read more.
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Gun-crime-Notts/article-1457616-detail/article.html
October 30, 2009 at 11:12 pm
It’s people that kill and maim other people, not guns and knives. OK, it might be easier if you have a gun but any increase (imagined or real) in violent crime is a reflection of a social malaise that will continue to get worse until we realise that our mainstream politicians haven’t got just their attitude to crime wrong; they’ve got everything wrong. And until we all realise that society is us and we all have a responsibility to arrest the awful, capitalist-inspired, consumer-driven decline we are in.