10
Aug
2013
By Calvin at 09:56 GMT, 12 years ago
Thanks to our friends at Thames Valley Police for the following article:
Urban areas continue to have ‘substantially’ higher rates of crime than their rural counterparts, figures suggest.
While the rates of all types of offences in England have maintained a decline since 2005/06, data released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs shows that the rate of crime – including sexual offences and robbery – is higher in urban type environments.
Over 2012/13, the rate of robbery offences in predominantly urban environments was nine times than in rural areas. While the rate of recorded robbery offences in major urban areas last year fell by 0.5 per 1,000 people on 2011/12, the research claimed this type of offence occurred ‘at a substantially higher rate’ in these areas ‘than [in] any other type of settlement in England.’
During last year, the rate of violence against the person was 7.2 per 1,000 people in predominantly rural areas, compared to 12.3 in urban spaces. This trend was maintained with the rate of recorded crime for sexual offences, which was 0.4 higher in urban areas than rural. Similarly, the rate of vehicle offences was twice as high in metropolitan areas in comparison to predominantly countryside locations. The rate of violence against the person has been higher in predominantly urban areas since 2005/06, with all rural classifications holding a lower rate than the English average.
TCPW Comment: I think most of us reading this article would not be surprised with the findings, as a high density of population and all the problems that this brings with it tends to be exemplified by higher crime levels. This is why crime in England and Wales, when compared with many other lower densely populated European countries is so much higher. We’re not the bad boys of Europe; we just suffer the consequences of over population.
And whilst it’s good to have what we all probably knew confirmed by this data, we should not forget that the rural environment has its own particular crime problems, which deserve policing just like anywhere else.
Read more at: http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=110712
