Do you are feeling kind of protected in Britain than you probably did a couple of years in the past? The most recent crime stats are out—and the UK, properly, sadly, it’s changing into a playground for criminals.
Crime rose a staggering 14 per cent within the 12 months ending December 2024. Do you keep in mind issues like this?
There have been just below 55,000 incidents involving a knife within the 12 months to December 2024. That’s up two per cent. However what about this?
Pickpocketing is up 50 per cent. It’s truly on the highest stage since data started. Have you ever seen something like this in your native store? As a result of I definitely have.
Theft is up 13 per cent. That’s 2.9 million theft incidents in only one 12 months. Shoplifting is up too. In reality, there have been half one million recorded offences—that’s a 20 per cent improve. Has something like this occurred close to you?
Thirty-six per cent of individuals skilled or witnessed anti-social behaviour over the 12 months. Thirty-six per cent of the inhabitants of England and Wales. That’s mad.
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The sexual assault statistics are grim. A million folks have been sexually assaulted. Now, statistically talking, in Britain nearly all of perpetrators are in all probability going to be white.
Nevertheless, we’re importing plenty of this downside. Between 2021 and 2023, international nationals have been 71 per cent extra more likely to commit intercourse crimes in Britain.
In reality, this difficulty has grow to be so vital {that a} group known as the Ladies’s Security Initiative has simply been launched to spotlight the hazards of mass, uncontrolled immigration on the subject of the protection of girls and women in Britain.
That group shouldn’t should exist, ought to it? And but it does—which is a damning indictment in itself.
In the meantime, there’s been one other 50 per cent rise in telephone snatchings, reaching the very best stage ever. Fraud is up 33 per cent, with 54,587 incidents recorded involving a pointy improve in monetary scams.
The Annual Fraud Indicator now estimates that we lose £219billion to fraud yearly.
Simply to place that in context: in 2023–2024, the Division of Well being and Social Care spent £188.5bn on well being providers. Take into consideration that.
We’re dropping extra to fraud than we spend on your entire NHS. That’s insane—completely insane. You could possibly fund the NHS almost twice over with that.
And after we do lock folks up, generally we are able to’t even maintain them there.
Whereas we have been reporting, we noticed a person seem on prime of a fence—topped with barbed wire. He jumped right down to the place a black car was ready, the automotive door already open.
We have been doing a report on Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Minister, letting folks out of jail early… after which a man actually simply hopped the fence. Apparently, he’s nonetheless on the free.
Anyway—we’re now a low-trust, high-crime society. The query, after all, is: What will we do about it?