Apparently, Police-recorded crime in England and Wales fell 9% in the 12 months to March.

How convenient, and right before a tricky by-election too. Well done, Labour. You must be really proud.

Especially of statistics like these:

1. Five people every week are stabbed to death as knife crime has risen by a third since Labour came to power.

2. The figures showed big increases in the numbers of men and women stabbed, with male victims jumping from 139 to 185 and female victims up from 58 to 73 over the three year period.

3. Almost 34,000 people were admitted to hospital in England as a direct result of violence in the year 2005/2006. Ten times that number attended Accident and Emergency, the study shows. This compares with 25,700 admissions in the year 2002/2003.

4. Separate figures have also showed that the number of people prosecuted for possessing knives had increased by 72 per cent from 4,489 in 1997, the year Labour came to power, to 7,699 in 2006.

Interesting then that the government’s annual crime report for 2007-2008 “reveals” the longest recorded period of falling crime - down 48% from 1995. And yet, inconveniently, last month Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s most senior policeman, criticised official crime statistics saying that people had “almost no faith” in them.

Damn right we don’t! Did you know that every time someone is cautioned, it’s put down as a solved crime?!

Do you know why violent crime appears to have gone down? Because they took things like gun crime and knife crime off into their own separate categories!
And if crime is down, why are the prisons full?

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