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by Jim Kouri
While most Americans are witnessing dramatic decreases in violent and
property crime, our friends and allies across the pond in Britain are
experiencing alarming increases. In a recent British news article, the
writer lamented the loss of British citizens who have fled the United
Kingdom and moved to Australia or the United States. They estimate that over
a quarter-million Britons leave the British Isles each year.
Last year alone over 324,000 Brits left for greener pastures in the US and
Australia. However, Britain's population continues to grow with massive
immigration and their higher birthrate. Brit flight -- coupled with a lower
birth rate among Britons -- will almost certainly accelerate a change in
demographics.
The newspaper, The Independent, quoted one businessman who complained that
crime and immigration -- mostly from the Middle East and North Africa -- are
out of control. With this increase in immigrants -- legal and illegal --
came an increase in crime, violence and civil unrest. The businessman moved
to Australia.
An example of this disenchantment with life in the British Isles is the
recent release from prison of thousands of violent criminals and sex
offenders who are putting Britons at severe risk, according to a damning
report. A high-profile study to be published later this month is expected to
reveal that dangerous ex-convicts are not being screened properly before
they're released, and they are not being adequately supervised in the
community.
According to London-based journalist Sophie Goodwin, there are about 30,000
released prisoners convicted of violent and sexual offenses currently living
in the community, thousands of whom are infrequently supervised. The
potential threat becomes more profound by a soon-to-be released report after
an extensive investigation into the murder of a London banker. The final
investigative report is likely to blame his killing on the failures in the
British criminal justices system to monitor dangerous ex-cons, many of whom
are immigrants.
The International Crime Victims Survey, based on 34,000 telephone interviews
across 17 countries, found that 26 percent of people -- more than one in
four -- in England and Wales had been victims of crime. The figure for
Scotland was 23 percent and in Northern Ireland 15 percent. The United
States had a 21 percent crime victimization rate.
After Australia and England and Wales, the highest prevalence of crime was
in Holland (25 percent), Sweden (25 percent) and Canada (24 per cent), all
higher than the United States. In fact, if one discounts crimes committed by
illegal aliens -- almost 30 percent of American crime -- the US would show
even more dramatic decreases in violence and crime.
And what has been the British government's reaction? There are suspicions
that crime reports are being manipulated to cover-up the increased dangers
to public safety.
A headline in the London Daily Telegraph said it all: "Crime Figures a Sham,
Say Police." The story noted that "pressure to convince the public that
police were winning the fight against crime had resulted in a long list of
ruses to 'massage' statistics," and "the recorded crime level bore no
resemblance to the actual amount of crime being committed."
For example, where a series of homes were burgled, they were regularly
recorded as one crime. If a burglar hit 15 or 20 flats, only one crime was
added to the statistics.
A 2000 report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary charges Britain's 43
police departments with systemic under-classification of crime - for
example, by recording burglary as "vandalism." The report lays much of the
blame on the police's desire to avoid the extra paperwork associated with
more serious crimes. Others say the officers are told to reclassify serious
crimes to less-than-serious.
Not Surprising is the fact that Britons suffer through more burglaries than
Americans.
The US burglary rate is less than half the English rate. And, while 53
percent of British burglaries occur when someone is at home, only 13 percent
do in America. Some believe this may be attributed to the fact that there is
a greater likelihood of homeowners being armed in America, therefore
America's burglars prefer committing their crimes when occupants are out. No
so in Britain.
Recently, Britain's senior police officers claimed mass immigration has
created a whole new range of crimes threatening to overwhelm towns and
cities across the country.
Chris Fox, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),
claims that the mass movement of people around the world had brought new
levels of organized crime, with drug dealing, gun offenses, prostitution and
kidnapping.
Claiming the numbers of asylum seekers coming to Britain had reached "tidal
wave" proportions, Fox said, "Mass migration has brought with it a whole new
range and a whole new type of crime, from the Nigerian fraudster, to the
eastern European who deals in drugs and prostitution to the Jamaican
concentration on drug dealing."
Add to that the home grown criminals and we have a whole different family of
people who are competing to be in the organized crime world, he said in an
interview with The Observer ahead of ACPO's annual conference. Fox said that
he did not blame genuine asylum seekers, but some towns and cities were
struggling to cope with the influx.
"The mass movement of people has made it worse. It is accepted that [if]
people do move for security, safety and to avoid terror, among them there
will be people who aren't moving for those purposes. Similarly, gangs see a
chance to earn money by moving people and getting people into countries
without going through all the checks. This mass movement brings with it the
opportunity for criminals to move and to make money," Fox told The Observer.
While overall crime in Europe is rising, the liberal-left in American
continues to deceptively use the myth of low crime in Britain, France and
other countries in order to disarm US gunowners, embarrass US law
enforcement, and claim socialist programs will reduce crime in the United
States.
They will argue we should seek to duplicate Europe's strategies for
combating poverty, drug addiction, crime and violence. Well, we should just
tell our friends on the left, "No thanks, we're doing fine without your
help."
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"Honesty, Integrity, Compassion, and Decency"
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