UK Crime Statistics Hit Record High
When you talk crime statistics with an establishment type in the UK, they always try to make things out to be better than they are. These days they have a very hard task.
Crime in the UK is exploding at an alarming rate. According to recently released statistics, it’s the most violent place in the European Union. And those who parry that “it’s not as bad as the U.S.” — as so many do when talking crime statistics — are correct. The UK is worse.
In the UK, there are 2,034 offenses per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-place Austria at 1,677. The U.S. has a rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada has 935, Australia has 92, and South Africa has 1,609.
Yes — the UK has a larger problem with violent crime than South Africa.
Needless to say, government ministers and criminologists are wheeling out the typical excuses of “different legal systems” and differing ways of reporting crime to explain why the UK is leading Europe is such a spectacular way. The minister in charge of such things tried to put a positive spin on it:
Violent crime in England and Wales has fallen by almost a half a peak in 1995 but we are not complacent and know there is still work to do. That is why last year we published “Saving lives. Reducing harm. Protecting the public. An Action Plan for Tackling Violence 2008-11.”
Much of this violence is racial and ethnic in nature. Violence against Jews reached a record 114 incidents in 2007, the highest number since records were begun in 1984.
So what’s going on?
This is a country that has completely disarmed its populace and enacted severe penalties for those engaging in self-defense. Victims who fight back are as likely to end up in court as those that attacked them.
Despite increased home invasion crime, Tony Blair ruled out legislation to aide the homeowner.
Because burglars know they have little to worry about from their victims, burglaries are rising — many resulting in lengthened ordeals for the victims including threats of killing and torture:
Around ten minutes later he came back down. He said, “There’s more piggies aren’t there?” and that it was my fault this was happening. I said there wasn’t any more, then he said “Which one do you want to see die first?”
It is pathetic that the Brits would let themselves get to that point. Hopefully, we won’t do the same with our country, but it looks bad.
Not with a bang,but with a whimper. RIP England.
That is why they wanted to kepp Michael out
Cut crime.
Ooops, he isn’t a criminal. forgetaboutit
It just shows that liberal policies have damaging consequences. Maybe the people of UK will realize this and start putting conservatives and return sanity to their country.
The right of self defense has been declared illegal in the UK. We currently have a President who as an Illinois State Senator voted against the right of self defense. Yes, unfortunately, the liberal/progressives see firearm ownership as necessary for the formation of our country, but not necessary now, and an impediment to their version of an ordered society. Representative Susanna Hupp of the Texas Legislature had it right when a few years ago she said: “…How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of….” The handwriting is on the walls and we all need to take action to prevent the loss of our hard fought for liberties. If we fail to take action, the liberal/progressive crowd will continue their push and we will be disarmed, that is, all except the criminals. President Obama has said he will push for Senate approval of the 1998 Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and other Related Material (known as CIFTA), which was signed by President Clinton, but never voted on in the Senate. This treaty could be the liberal/progressive end run to effectively gut the Second Amendment from our Constitution, and put us under the UNs vision of firearms control.
Listened to the liberals — Banned guns, how is that working out for you.
What did that wise Latino say? You don’t have a right to self defense? Why would she say that?
Well at least we know what wise Latino means, room temperature IQ.
words fail us don’t they, but at least try to get them straight. wise latina not latino. the issue with “wise latino” is that she said she was wise, that immediately puts her in another category. the right to self defense issue makes her a hypocrite. she defended herself well enough in the senate grilling didn’t she. if you don’t think evasive words are self defense. wait that is self preservation that isn’t a right its an instinct. but what do words really mean. the english don’t have a right to life, liberty and the American way of life(pursuit of happiness).
The fundamental problem of the UK’s “zero tolerance of violence” and anti-self-defense laws is that when a thug robs, assaults, kills, or otherwise harms a regular person (esp in their home), the thug leaves and is hard to find. When a regular person uses violence in response, they are easy to locate and target (again, esp at home). Therefor, the laws only deter regular people from using even justified force. They do nothing against the thug.
The same applies to gun and knife (!!!) control laws.
The left either doesn’t understand this or INTENDS it. Why the latter? Because a thug culture helps them accumulate power.
Modern liberalism: The annoying fear that someone, somewhere can help themeselves. Power… imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever (that gives modern liberals a thrill) as described in Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four.
Just get rid of gun control, allow conceal carry, broadcast it so criminals know it, and you can get the violent crime rate down just like El Paso, TX.
It’s not rocket science people.
Once criminals know there is good chance their victim is armed and knows how to use their weapon, it will significantly lower crime.
Also, the UK should try a free market capitalist system which will greatly increase economic opportunity for its people.
Timeless truths applied.
I don’t know how you can claim that the BNP is a Neo-Nazi political party. They’re British “nationalists” who are obsessed with making sure Britain is governed properly, its culture and native people preserved and whose interests are always placed at the forefront of national priorities. Which the Western left has disgustingly managed to convince Westerners is an evil mindset to have. Because of course only non-Westerners are allowed to preserve their cultural identity while Westerners themselves should adopt suicidal and self-destructive values of multi-culturalism. A mindset and worldview which has been proven to be disasterous from an objective perspective. Yet even right wingers have widely adopted this moronic set of left wing values as well out of political correctness. And yes they are indeed “racists” in the same sense that other ethnic based orgainzations (which unlike the BNP are totally free of any outside stigma and criticism) are racist when they openly state their mission is to advance, promote and defend members of their own ethnicity first and foremost. Which isn’t unlike all of the other identity based organizations we have right here in the United States which are not only immune from criticism due to political correctness but are lionized and cheered on by the left and the right. Try to keep in mind that the ethnic British -are- the natives. It isn’t like the history of America where a foreign ethnic group dominated the indiginous population. The native British have often lived in the same town for several thousand years before there was even any other humans on the land they settled on. And they built up their entire country all on their own from literally the ground up. So why aren’t they offered the same protections and encouragments that say the native Americans are offered here in America? Instead they’re called Neo-Nazis and racists. And all the supporters of the BNP that I know personally are as far away from the Nazis as you can imagine. They’re almost always extremely isolationist when it comes to foreign and defense policy. They’re extremely opposed to their national involvment in both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict. And last time I checked isolationism wasn’t exactly a pillar of Nazi ideology… They also welcome Jews to join their political party as well. They’re basically a white British version of the NAACP.
It’s nice to see a more reasoned, well thought out and well put appraisal of what the BNP is all about. It’s about time the British media woke up to the fact that slandering an organisation and denying objective analysis is not promoting fairness or free thinking. Thank you Blackwater for your comment.
Clive.
IDIOTS.
By the way, don’t get me wrong. I’m totally opposed to identity based politics. But as long as all these racist tribal-like non-white actvist groups are allowed to exist without scrutiny or criticism then I’d like an activist group which speaks up for and represents my rights as well to counter-balance the plethora of people and organization who would gleefully enact legislation and laws aimed at discriminating against me and my friends and family. It increasingly seems to me that we need an American version of the BNP to publicly oppose bigoted activists such as Sotomayor and to look out for the best interests of America.
“What did that wise Latino say? You don’t have a right to self defense? Why would she say that?
Well at least we know what wise Latino means, room temperature IQ.”
There are plenty of wise Latinos. Don’t confuse Sonia Sotomayor with a wise Latina.
Having lived in the UK, and been a victim of a home invasion in Ontario, Canada — with its sanctimonious anti gun legislation — I much rather live in the American south with a legal carry permit than anywhere else. Long Live America.
The capacity for self defence breeds good manners and to this informed individual is clearly deterent.
Just get rid of gun control, allow conceal carry, broadcast it so criminals know it, and you can get the violent crime rate down just like El Paso, TX.
It’s not rocket science people.
Once criminals know there is good chance their victim is armed and knows how to use their weapon, it will significantly lower crime.
I would not exaggerate the extent that this will solve the problem. Shall-issue concealed carry laws certainly have helped us in the U.S., but the core problem of violent crime is cultural. Theodore Dalrymple’s essays about the British underclass is highly illuminating for understanding what has gone wrong in Britain.
Using the English vernacular. What a load of old bollocks. There are lies damned lies and the kind of nonsense that’s peddled in this article. Come over here, guys, find out for yourselves. I’m 54 years old, have lived in the grottier parts of London, Manchester and Leeds. I still visit London on a weekly basis. I’ve not been on the receiving end of so much as a punch since I was eleven years old. I know you guys love your guns, but come and ask an English person if we’d swap with you. Not in a million years,.
@ Chris H, #17
“I know you guys love your guns, but come and ask an English person if we’d swap with you. Not in a million years,”
Of the 90 some people who work in my organization, three were previously UK citizens. While one is sadly deceased from cancer, each remarked on life and crime rates being more civilized and lower, respectively, here.
Each felt they would not return to the UK if they could help it.
Remind how that migration rate is trending again?
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
All those who were overly concerned about their safety are getting what they asked for. The road to hell is well paved with good intentions. I guess guns don’t really kill people. People kill people.
Cheers to the UK: Enjoy the violence. You are going to see more of it.
I love the country but hate their politics and political correctness. Having relatives there and visited several times I am always struck by the way they feel they know what is best for America. They think our President is their President and 85% were in favor of Obama. The entire country is controlled by the BBC and Sky News. Those news outlets are as far left as you can be. The US is responsible for every malady know to man. We are responsible for racism, world pollution, global warming, and right wing talk show hosts. Everything we do is geared toward world domination and the exploitation the underdeveloped countries. I have pointed out that if that were true they would be one of our colonies and they would have a US appointed Governor in charge. The only reason we don’t do that is they are just too poor to bother with. But thanks to Obama they are beginning to see the light.
Europe countries, and the UK in particular, are use to treating their people as surfs. Instead of the Lord of the Manor, it is a “Lord of the House” they now revere. They have more of a democracy than we do but because of the tight control of the news they do not fare much better.
The violence there is not the failure to control guns but a failure to control criminals. The liberal mind is not capable of admitting that some people are better dead than alive and killing others. So they make the victim the criminal, just like we do here. Ted Kennedy said some time ago, “if a criminal enters your home your duty is to leave the home and not cause problems.” So much for “home of the brave, land of the free”. UK welcome to our world. Micheal Savage could have done you some good.
This is the long term effects of Gun Control, and I do not mean the kind of control that allows you to shoot a coin at a hundred yards. Cab anyone imagine a way out for England that does mot invove closing the BBC?
This is the long-term effects of Gun Control, and I do not mean the kind of control that allows you to shoot a coin at a hundred yards.
Can anyone imagine a way out for England that does not involve closing the BBC? With its use of taxpayer, money actively promoting a liberal multicultural (anti-traditional British culture) agenda the BBC will always stack the deck against reality.
The Brits, wether they know it or not, is well on the way to…
tah dah..drum roll please…..’SHARIA”..”SHARIA” FOR ALLLLLLLL…
Aw come on…you know it’s true. Well, interestingly enough if Obama and the gang have their way here, we’ll be a burka country soon..or brown shirt, and jackboots.
Chris H,
Worry not, we would not swap with them either and I have been there. Look up the town of Weatherford, their is an airbase near, I was stationed there for 2 yrs and 7 months.
Were I a pacifist then I might go, but I am not.
Actually, I grew tired of the constant anti Americanism, actually it was simple envy combined with a boat load of hate.
Does each nation for which numbers were provided use the same definition of “violent crime”? If not, the numbers are useless but if so that’s rather striking.
I call the BNP neo-Nazis based on their actions as detailed in this report, reading their rhetoric and what their members believe.
I’m glad Theodore Dalrymple was mentioned. He has his finger on the pulse of the social disintegration in the UK. The entire culture is sick. For most of my life I was a huge Anglophile and I’ve visited and loved it. I wouldn’t go now.
but come and ask an English person if we’d swap with you. Not in a million years
Could be that England is safer or could be that the English have been thoroughly brainwashed by their know-it-all elites.
Also I have been told that Brritish police advises not resist burglars in order not to anger them in fact to collaboarate with them, point them to and open the safe box, handle them your jewels. They don’t tell it but I think that implicitly the english police advise that if the burglars want to have a little fun with your wife you should hold her. Even if what you old were true I for one prefer one thousand times live with high crime rates and face attackers weapon in hand that act with the abject cowardice Bristish are supposed to.
As for “high crime rates” in the U.S., according to the latest FBI Uniform Crime Report (just out) the rate of violent crime in major U.S. cities has gone down sharply overall compared to what it was just a decade ago- except for cities like Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C. This in spite of an economic downturn and accelerated (court-ordered) releases of criminals due to alleged overcrowding of penal institutions. The experts, according to the Washington Post, are having trouble understanding why they’re not seeing a massive crime wave.
My estimate is, they were hoping for a sharp upturn, because these “experts” for the most part are gun-control and “root causes of crime” advocates, who see criminals as “victims of society” and guns in civilian hands as the ultimate evil. So, a massive increase in violent crime would be a good thing, from their POV, as it would be a justification for more demands for disarming law-abiding citizens and for being “more humane” to criminals.
But they aren’t getting the results they want. Probably because the use of firearms by law-abiding citizens to resist criminal attacks is on the increase.
Here in central Ohio, there has been a sharp drop in “home invasion”- style raids by criminals, apparently because in the last dozen or so in the greater Columbus area, criminals attempting same have been shot by their intended victims. (Everywhere except metropolitan Columbus itself, where gun ownership is next to impossible and the DA likes to prosecute people who resist criminals, that is.)
Now, either the criminals are getting the word that attacking people who can fight back is a losing proposition- or the number of criminals who used that MO is decreasing to to attrition. Either way, that form of rime is not as common as it once was.
Interestingly enough, non-violent property crimes (burglary when the homeowner is absent, auto theft, etc.)have not decreased concurrently, and in some areas have shown a slight increase. Maybe the criminals are concluding that not confronting their intended victims is safer?
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Come over here, guys, find out for yourselves. I’m 54 years old, have lived in the grottier parts of London, Manchester and Leeds. I still visit London on a weekly basis. I’ve not been on the receiving end of so much as a punch since I was eleven years old.
Can you explain to me why, when I visited in 1999, just about every newer rural motel we checked into had bullet proof glass for the hotel clerk? Or why there was bulletproof glass for the ticket agents in the London Underground? And I saw something at Heathrow that (until 9/11) I had never seen in the U.S.: police officers carrying automatic weapons.
Here in Texas the “Stand your ground” law was passed making clear that Texans have the right to use deadly force to protect themselves in their homes, cars, or places of employment. The British built tons of castles in Wales (my ancestral land) but we Texans have beaten them to the punch with the “Castle Doctrine”.
Please read Wade v. District of Columbia
My Bad, should have been Warren v. District of Columbia
Man has a natural right to defend himself and his family. Anything else makes him a slave, not much better than cattle. The butinski class has assumed powers and are making a perfect mess of it.
As an Englishman who can trace my family back to the Domesday Book (11th century), I have never had any problem with immigrants to this country. Provided they add something rather than taking I feel that immigration is, on the whole, a good thing. What I feel is wrong, however, is uncontrolled immigration that we now have. The US has population density of 80 people per square mile. The UK has 640 and rising. We have foreign criminals freely admitted to this country because to refuse entry would be an abuse of their human rights.
The signing up to the European Human Rights Bill has left us wide open to abuse. The government of Britain slavishly follows and obeys every bit of “guidance” contained in it as if it were law, while the rest of Europe simply ignores it. It is very easy to live in a country such as America – which I have visited and love – but unless you live here or have visited a lot, things are not always what they seem.
Years ago, as a young teenager on a tour boat to the Statue of Liberty, I was surprised and dismayed at the tourists keen to photograph New York City slum buildings alongside the harbor but expressing no interest in what I still consider an inspiring national monument. I’m glad you came and reported mostly on our better side. The media keeps us well informed about our shortcomings.
My father was a senior executive and chief chemist with one of this nation’s largest petroleum companies. At an early age, I began traveling with him. He had no regard for school schedules. They would bundle up the assignments and books and he’d make sure I tutored and prepared when I returned. I often lived with a host family while he attended to business.
What I learned is what others at this blog have stated. Each country has a patch of greener grass compared to elsewhere but each nation also has a raggedy patch of weeds about which no one seems to know what to do and people often suffer because of that.
On the other hand, the United States certainly has not turned out to be the glowing, cooperative, inclusive workshop our primary school teachers promised a few decades ago that we were all working to create.
Looks like gun control is starting to work actually:
A snapshot of crime in 2008-09
Here are some significant crime statistics from our most recent research, Crime in England and Wales 2008-09:
the number of police recorded crimes fell by 5% between 2007-08 and 2008-09
police recorded 6% fewer violent against the person offences, 10% fewer vandalism offences and 10% fewer offences against vehicles, but home burglaries have increased by 1%
the risk of becoming a victim of crime as measured by the BCS rose from 22% to 23%, but is well below its peak of 40% in 1995