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Old 21-07-2017, 12:44   #255
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Re: Government & Post Election Discussion

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
10% seems an awfully high jump in a year!

It's anecdotal but the moped thefts (people on the moped's stealing) seems to be reaching crisis levels in London over the last 2-3 years. Now acid attacks.
In order to judge these figures we need to understand whether, for example, there's been additional reporting of crimes that were hitherto not reported for whatever reason. A great deal of effort has gone into encouraging people to report hate crimes, for example, and given the terrorist attacks we've seen in the last year or so it's not entirely surprising that there'd be a surge in reports of reprisal attacks in whatever form they've taken whether verbal abuse or serious physical assault.

As for the acid and other moped attacks, IIRC the lads arrested recently were held in relation to 5 or 6 attacks that happened in once evening. These crimes whether attempted or successfully completed are easy to commit in large numbers and it wouldn't surprise me at all to discover that there's a very few people actually responsible for a vast number of them. Have there been any acid attacks since the young men were arrested? I haven't heard of any being reported.
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