The Good News Only - thread...

[Pross]

Como FC (was in the 4th tier not so long ago) 4, Man U:1

The Ratcliffe Touch. It's like the Midas Touch but everything turns to shite instead of gold.

 

[briantrumpet]

Guinea-Bissau stopped the planned RFK Jnr 'trial' of *not* giving the Hepatitis B vaccine to children to try to prove his antivax point.

 

[Pblakeney]

The Ratcliffe Touch. It's like the Midas Touch but everything turns to shite instead of gold.

The Donnie Touch.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Donnie Touch.

The Lincoln Project did #ettd (everything Trump touches dies), and it's stood the test of time.

 

[briantrumpet]

Genuinely wonder why. Crimers are always gonna crime. Or so I thought. (Fraud caveat noted here though.)

 

[Pinno718]

Genuinely wonder why. Crimers are always gonna crime. Or so I thought. (Fraud caveat noted here though.)

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The flag shaggers aren't going to read this and this won't be on the telly news tonight.

 

[Pross]

Genuinely wonder why. Crimers are always gonna crime. Or so I thought. (Fraud caveat noted here though.)

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I suspect a huge amount is down to reporting though. There's much more of an attitude that the police won't do anything and if they do the CPS will kick it out or the Court won't punish it so is it worth all the hassle? We need a graph showing recorded crime and people's faith in the criminal justice system.

 

[briantrumpet]

I suspect a huge amount is down to reporting though. There's much more of an attitude that the police won't do anything and if they do the CPS will kick it out or the Court won't punish it so is it worth all the hassle? We need a graph showing recorded crime and people's faith in the criminal justice system.

Except it seems to be an international phenomenon, so I'd be surprised if parochial changes in reporting were happening at the same time around the globe.

 

[briantrumpet]

For instance, I'd have thought that murders are one of the least likely to be unreported, and they've halved in 40 years in several European countries.

 

[Pinno718]

I suspect a huge amount is down to reporting though. There's much more of an attitude that the police won't do anything and if they do the CPS will kick it out or the Court won't punish it so is it worth all the hassle? We need a graph showing recorded crime and people's faith in the criminal justice system.

With a proper Y axis?

 

[AuroraSaab]

You need to look at context and demographics of victims and assailants in more detail to make a meaningful analysis. The drop in the Italian murder rate in the 80s was due to the government concentrating on reducing Mafia activity. It doesn't reflect whether the number of 'ordinary' murders went down. Likewise, the UK has had murders rising after things like Shipman, where 200 murders were added to the stats in one year.

I suspect a huge amount is down to reporting though. There's much more of an attitude that the police won't do anything and if they do the CPS will kick it out or the Court won't punish it so is it worth all the hassle? We need a graph showing recorded crime and people's faith in the criminal justice system.

There is an annual crime survey where people are asked about being a victim of crime. This includes unreported crimes. As you'd expect, the (extrapolated) rates are higher, especially for sex offences and things like vandalism.

https://www.crimesurvey.co.uk/en/index.html