Steed the BCS is not from the Police its independant and records crimes that were not reported tio the police.
From their website:
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The BCS measures the amount of crime in England and Wales. This includes crimes which may not have been reported to the police, or recorded by them. It thus provides an important alternative to police recorded crime statistics. Without the BCS the government would have no information on these unreported crimes. The BCS also helps identify those most at risk of different types of crime. This is used in designing and informing crime prevention programmes. It is also used to assess people's attitudes to crime and towards the Criminal Justice System. It is one of the major sources of information about levels of crime, public attitudes to crime and other Home Office issues.
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http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ssd/sur...ime_survey.asp
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Originally Posted by STEED
the south of England where knife crime is never out the news
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Thats the problem, knife crime is never out of the news, the media's obssession with crime is fueling yet another public panic about crime.
Its interesting that crime has been falling since 1995 when it peaked, two years before Labour came to power.