tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666579996787484678.post8725841216004000044..comments2023-04-06T17:12:42.978+01:00Comments on A Just Future: Fair for All: Crime trends: asking the right questionsJon Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12792245973965010468noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666579996787484678.post-36201602333265581962014-05-02T10:13:59.663+01:002014-05-02T10:13:59.663+01:00Ever since there's been crime figures there ha...Ever since there's been crime figures there has been gaming of them by various organizations. Police recorded figures are best seen as a measure of police activity rather than the level of crime in society but even then are very imperfect for that.<br /><br />There's no magic bullet solution; local crime surveys might help but a culture change away from concentrating on the abstract figures would help.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666579996787484678.post-51521728355249506662014-05-01T20:51:40.601+01:002014-05-01T20:51:40.601+01:00Action Fraud's procedures are so time-intensiv...Action Fraud's procedures are so time-intensive a number of financial institutions simply do not report fraud to it. One institution asked can we have a simple method of dumping the data online and then Action Fraud can do what it wants. Answer came none.<br /><br />At least one large urban force has published it receives nine hundred reports from Action Fraud per month, they have a team to assess if any warrant investigation. I thought they were being recorded locally or in force. Interesting.<br /><br />One PCC stated that targets had NO impact on recording practices. He must have missed his own Deputy Chief Constable's statement to a meeting upon arrival - 'This force's problem is that it over records crime'. The same PCC allows his force to use 'milestones' instead of targets. Anyone who reads the papers presented to the PCC would notice the emphasis placed on 'milestones' and the difficulties in reaching them.<br /><br />The same PCC sits there and is told by his crime 'lead' we now better understand crime and are responding better. Oddly he didn't ask for "heads to roll" when the local paper reported for the second time city centre retail crime was not being recorded when reported. davidbfpohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14530167181611729116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666579996787484678.post-54315885008871403132014-05-01T09:34:55.719+01:002014-05-01T09:34:55.719+01:00Useful information - thank you.Useful information - thank you.Jon Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12792245973965010468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666579996787484678.post-74321921650511197162014-05-01T09:28:41.429+01:002014-05-01T09:28:41.429+01:00An excellent blog as always.
A point that has been...An excellent blog as always.<br />A point that has been overlooked when it comes to comparing performance, year on year, is that currently it is not like for like.<br />Since May 2012 most fraud offences have not been recorded locally but via Action Fraud.<br />These were previously classified as Other Crime, offences in this category have fallen by upwards of 90% nationally and represent 4% of All Crime.<br />This is compensated by the ONS nationally by adding back in offences reported to Action Fraud but this cannot be done locally.<br />So when PCC's publish performance figures for All Crime, 4% of any decrease in overall crime is down to a change in reporting procedure not performance.<br />This will soon not be the case 2nd Q of 2014 will see for the first time since the election of PCC's a like for like comparison. How will they explain the sudden rise in crime? The Eyehttp://www.essexinfo.net/essex-eye/noreply@blogger.com