UK AND IRELAND SET NEW STANDARDS....
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 09:15AM Nice to see the UK and Ireland trail-blazing new standards in our wonderful European Union.
The UK is now the most burgled country in Europe, a disturbing crime survey reveals. This lack of respect for private property is hardly surprising given the Government's refusal to allow us the right to defend our property. Meanwhile levels of assault are also the highest across the EU, while car theft, robbery and sex offences are also well above average. As you can see, under Labour, we are reaching new standards.
In the overall crime league, the UK comes second only to plucky Ireland, with more than a fifth of the population in both countries exposed to crime in the past year. Ireland just manages to clock up the highest level of common crime in the EU.
Particularly embarrassing for the Government is the clear link researchers found between levels of violent crime and alcohol consumption - at a time when booze-fuelled violence is rising in the wake of the 24-hour drinking reforms.
The data for this survey results comes from the European Crime and Safety Survey, a joint project involving the United Nations and the EU Commission involving some 40,000 interviews across the continent, and is described as 'the most comprehensive analysis of crime, security and safety ever conducted in the EU'. Instead of relying on official crime data published by EU governments, the researchers started from scratch, asking huge numbers of adults about their experiences during 2004.
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Reader Comments (9)
You mean the ROI surely :) Just messin.
seriously though. there is a serious amount of unreported crime happening in the ROI. People just feel that its not worth reporting.
Drink and Drugs have a massive part to play in our crime levels.
If you work - Brown steals all you money.
If you go on a crime spree - nothing much happens you
Bit of a no brainer really.
Small story. We live in a suburb of Dallas. One X-mas my wife had a little display of Winnie the Pooh at X-mas. (Girl thang). Any who, some kids of course snatched Pooh. Wife calls police. Two officers sent out. Cop asking me for description. "Height? 3 feet sir. Weight? Dunno, but round in the tummy."
When I expressed my embarrassment at calling the police over Pooh, they said "No, we need to know what's going on in the neighborhood. If these kids get away with this, next it'll be cars and houses."
(We did find Pooh later on. Piglet very happy!)
Is the USA SAFER that Britian?
A couple years ago, 2 twenty year olds were breaking into the house across the street. My wife called the police and they were out in 5 minutes, guns drawn. Caught'em red handed in the act. They were hand cuffed on my lawn. We're all part of the "Neighorhood Watch") Would this happen in the UK?
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html
Mahons, don't be mentioning Disney to David. George Mitchell is a Director there as well.
http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/bios/george_mitchell.html