[identity profile] madscience.livejournal.com 2013-03-25 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
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%.