When will we learn?

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[madscience.livejournal.com]

One of those articles claims a 5% annual increase in violence against the person offences, after adjusting for the changes in reporting. That is many times the rate of population growth.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

Dude you don't get to take my criticism of one thing and apply it to another. I have no idea what 5% change you are referring to. I'm not going to be bothered refuting the myriad of non scholarly articles that you think are relevant.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

None of the articles you've cited were scholarly works, either.

"The new police figures show a 28 per cent rise in violence against the person offences, and a 22 per cent rise in overall violence, including robbery and sex crimes.

The Home Office insists the real 'adjusted' figures show more modest, though still deeply troubling, rises of five per cent and two per cent respectively."

That 5%.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

None of the articles you've cited were scholarly works, either.


ummm ok...

""The new police figures show a 28 per cent rise in violence against the person offences, and a 22 per cent rise in overall violence, including robbery and sex crimes.

The Home Office insists the real 'adjusted' figures show more modest, though still deeply troubling, rises of five per cent and two per cent respectively."


That 5%."
If the adjusted figures are related to recorded crime, (though I have no fucking clue given your citations) I'd refer you back to the BCS article I ORIGINALLY CITED. Crime rates are showing little overal change but reporting is up causing recordings to go up. This is much more intuitive than Aussies or Brits suddenly becoming prey to criminals following a gun ban. Have a nice night I'm done here.