Four-fifths of all `modern crime' is unreported `old crime'.

 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.

 In the discussion about Britain's crime statistics the police-chief
 revealed that 80% of modern reports of `violent crime' would not
 previously have been reported. He said that these were of the "someone
 got pushed over in an argument" level of severity.

 The police-chief also stressed that today police encourage greater
 reporting of certain crimes, giving the example of rape.

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 "Perceptions" add. - this is contradicted by evidence of ongoing
 police and court bias and brutality against women victims - see 
 www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html#perv2 

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 Previously a victim was openly and 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).

 Interview in "Drive" - Radio 5 Live 18 July 2000
 The presenters on the programme were Peter Allen and Jane Garvey.  

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 "Perceptions" analysis agrees with the police-chief's first statement, that widened
 classification has inflated `violent crime' figures by about 400 - 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.   

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  From "The Independent", English broadsheet newspaper 

  Police try to measure scale of domestic abuse 

  By Ian Burrell, Home Affairs Correspondent 

  29 September 2000

  Police across the United Kingdom made a confidential audit of domestic
  violence yesterday

  The exercise - in which the 43 forces in England and
  Wales, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and Strathclyde
  Police in Scotland logged all reports about physical and
  emotional violence in the home - was kept secret to
  avoid the risk of distorting the findings. Incidents
  reported to Victim Support offices, Relate and women's
  refuges and aid agencies were also included. 

  The findings will be analysed by Professor Elizabeth
  Stanko, of Royal Holloway College, University of
  London, who said: "This is the first attempt in the world
  to get a handle on the daily impact of domestic violence.
  By focusing on one ordinary day we will highlight the
  extent of a problem which has become routine in many
  people's lives." 

  The results will be presented next month at an
  international conference, "Domestic Violence: Enough is
  Enough", to be hosted by Scotland Yard. 

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 "Perceptions" note:

 You can expect the findings to be presented as an `increase in violence'.

 This in spite of domestic violence being omnipresent 50 years ago,
 commonplace 30 years ago, but now only a minority occupation (a large
 minority but, at any one time a minority all the same).

 "Perceptions" conclusion in violence.html is being  confirmed yet again.
 With decreased real violence in society we become more sensitive to
 violence.

 [A truly violent society - such as we were 50 years ago - does not bother
 to measure domestic violence; such a society ignores commonplace violence
 until directed at the elite.

 Then it is called "mutiny", "riot" or "revolution" and suppressed by the
 bloodiest violence of all - that licensed by the "State".]

 2nd confirmed conclusion : police, gov't and media now have vested interests
 in amplifying the apparent incidence of violence of all kinds.

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