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1月22日 Is the credit crunch fuelling a crime wave?
What’s happening?
The number of robberies involving knives increased by 18% in England and Wales between July and September last year, according to figures released today by the Home Office – the first official sign that the recession is fuelling a violent crime wave.
What are people saying?
The Tories insist there is a link between rising theft and the credit crunch. “These statistics show yet another harsh consequence of Gordon Brown’s economic downturn,” Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, said in a statement released to the press. But Home Secretary Jacqui Smith denied that it was inevitable. “It has been the case in the past when we have had previous recessions that it has had an impact on crime,” she told Sky News. “That is why we started working last summer to make sure we could be on the front foot to prevent that from happening. I do not think these things are inevitable, there are things you can do about it.”
Why should we give a damn?
The 18% rise in street robberies involving knives is “a truly alarming statistic”, writes Guardian home affairs editor Alan Travis – not least because it comes despite government efforts to reduce knife crime in 10 notorious hotspots. But it is the smaller rise in burglaries, fraud and forgeries that will set alarm bells ringing in the Home Office, writes Times home affairs correspondent Richard Ford, because they “suggest that overall crime could soon start to head upwards dramatically – with highly damaging consequences for a government heading towards a general election.”
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