Subject: Choose - Facts or false "Reports"
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 08:38:50 +0100
From: [ ed at Perceptions ]
To: [ BBC addresses ]

   Hello,

   1 I must protest at a broadcast repetition of a lie, during a Radio 5
     Live interview - at 0810 today - with Fred Brown [sic, actually 
     Broughton, we are told], Chairman of Police Federation. He said
     "Violent crime is increasing".

   2 We have proved that violence in society has been falling throughout
     recorded history - see http://www.perceptions.couk.com/violence.html

   3 The BBC seems to have a policy of deceiving the public by 'spreading
     alarm and despondency' but they are not alone. We have also proved that
     police and government have a vested interest - along with the media - in
     lying to the public about "violence". 

   4 Although, since we have established that the BBC is without principles
     regarding plagiarism and covering-up plagiarism, this justified
     complaint on behalf of the public will probably be ignored - see
     http://www.perceptions.couk.com/biglie.html

   5 See published news extract - from a Police source - establishing the
     false premises that media and others present to the public as "alarming
     statistics".
     QUOTE
     >  News - from interview in "Drive" - Radio 5 Live
     >  18 July 2000
     >  The presenters on the programme are Peter Allen
     >  and Jane Garvey.
     > 
     >  Tony Butler who is the Chief Constable of 
     >  Gloucestershire Constabulary and spokesperson of
     >  The Association of Chief Police Officers
     >  frankly stated that 80 % of modern "violent
     >  crime" reports would not have been reported in 
     >  past times. 
     > 
     >  The police-chief also stressed that today police 
     >  encourage greater reporting of certain crimes,
     >  giving the example of rape.
     > 
     >  [ Previously a victim was actively discouraged
     >  from reporting 'sensitive' crimes. ]  
     >  
     >  In addition he revealed that 18% of violence is
     >  of a "domestic nature" - violence against women.
     >  British police formerly ignored all domestic
     >  violence (anything short of murder).  
     UNQUOTE 
    
     <<<
        Perceptions analysis agrees with the 
        police-chief's first statement, that widened
        classification has inflated "violent crime"
        figures by about 500%.
 
        We also estimate that increased reporting,
        his second point, has further inflated the
        figures by a ratio yet to be determined -
        probably more than threefold.

        From those conservative estimates we can see
        that modern "Violent Crime" reports could be
        inflated by 1500% or more when compared
        with the past.
 
        Or to rephrase that, if a day's events - with
        15 apparent crimes being reported - were replayed
        30 or 40 years ago, only one "crime" would have 
        been reported - and maybe not even that one.  
     >>> 

   6 I request an immediate correction from Radio5 Live and a repeat
     correction later during the day for working people. The Chairman of the
     Police Federation may also wish to apologize for an apparent attempt to
     deceive.

     regards
     R J-D (ed. at perceptions)

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