Worse Than Feared

[FredPuli43]

Home Office condemned by own figures; 100 pages of its own statistics show that detection rates are down, assaults are up, including sexual assaults (those by 10.4 per cent), thefts and burglaries up (the latter by 9.3 per cent) and other economic crime (fraud etc) by 5.9 per cent. Murders are down but attempted murders are up. Police complain that they are being drowned in a sea of paperwork and bureaucratic rules of procedure.

Hang on. This report is in today's Le Figaro, and relates to France. Stand easy! Now, I wonder how many other countries in Europe are facing the same problems?

[Zacs-Master]

Yes and if the cheese eating surrender monkeys delay my holiday flight again there will be a few more crimes they can add.

[ToraToraTora]

for a minute there I thought it was going to be a "humiliation" for the PM!

[Zacs-Master]

Yeah but not as bad as having to wear bins.

[Sqad]

Fred....one thing that I have learnt since joining AB, is to seriously question statistics from whichever country and particularly governmental statistcs.

[youngmafbog]

EU and paperwork go hand in hand together with bureaucracy.

[ludwig]

// Murders are down but attempted murders are up. //

Interesting. This must mean the french are becoming worse at murder.

[keyplus90]

Lack of religion and family values to blame.