Crime is infinite

Dr Nic Groombridge writes that he was only mildly surprised to read last week that the UK Statistics Authority had downgraded the ‘official’ status of the police recorded crime figures

Criminologists have long observed that crime counting rules can are are regularly bent.

He also argues that 'crime is infinite:

'If you run short of it you can redefine the formerly lawful to be illegal. And, if you are overwhelmed by crime, you can legalise the formerly illegal.'

Read Nic Groombridge's comment piece here.

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