Comments on: UK Crime Statistics Hit Record High

By: Clive Christian

Clive Christian — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:54:43 +0000

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.

By: JEP

JEP — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:20:13 +0000

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

By: Jumper

Jumper — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:34:59 +0000

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.

By: Sussex Man

Sussex Man — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:41:49 +0000

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.

By: longun45

longun45 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:32:15 +0000

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.

By: StevieG

StevieG — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:43:13 +0000

My Bad, should have been Warren v. District of Columbia

By: StevieG

StevieG — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:16:48 +0000

Please read Wade v. District of Columbia

By: rattanman

rattanman — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:14:08 +0000

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”.

By: Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:58:08 +0000

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.

By: eon

eon — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:54:37 +0000

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?

clear ether

eon