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Violent Britain, do you feel safe?

THE number of violent crimes soared last year, shock Government figures revealed yesterday. Police recorded a 14 per cent rise in offences involving violence. From July to September there were 289,500 violent crimes in England and Wales ? compared with only 253,000 in the same period in 2002. This included an 18 per cent increase in homicide and serious wounding, from 10,000 to 11,800. Sexual offences also rose eight per cent from 12,900 to 14,000, according to Home Office figures. Minor woundings, harassment and common assault rocketed from 203,800 offences to 238,000.

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I used to live in South Africa and that a violent place. These figures can be taken many different ways for example the population of the UK is 60 million so 289k violent crimes is fairly low. Ja.
Ok - Violent Britain? You can't just classify the whole of Britain as being violent. Secondly, yes I do feel safe. I do exercise a certain amount of caution as you would anywhere, but I feel safer on the streets of Britain than I have felt in various other countries I have visited.
I still feel safe but not happy that the police seem to be able to record the crimes but not prosecute or prevent them happening in the first place How many of the above figures are down to increased reporting of minor crimes rather than an actual increase in occurrence?
yes i feel safe
No I don't feel safe. As I get older (I am now a pensioner) I wouldn't dream of going out at night without my car. I sometimes don't feel safe in the daytime in certain areas. I grew up in the 1950s when we were safe. I have worked with offenders and know what they are capable of.
I was mugged 3 or 4 weeks before Xmas. He never got anything and I fought back like crazy. Within 20 minutes the police helicopter was out and they'd picked someone up for questioning. I wasn't hopeful of a conviction due to lack of witnesses and there wasn't one but I feel very safe, very protected and glad of the police in this area.
Completely safe, regardless of malicious scaremongers doing their best to make people fearful
Violent Britain no it`s our government that we have to worry about it`s them that make it violent the way they run the country
EDIT: Hilary, I just find it so amusing that the BNP claim to be the party for sorting out law and order, yet they can't sort out the louts in their own party. That said, which party is it nowadays? the BNP or the "Real" BNP. But thanks for your constructive criticism of my answer, very well thought out!I blame the BNP March 2007 David Copeland The Appeal Court increases David Copeland's sentence to a minimum of 50 years. The London nail bomber, who had been an active member of the BNP, had originally been sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for the three bombs he set off in 1999 which killed three people and injured 139 others. February 2007 John Laidlaw John Laidlaw is sentenced to life after going on a shooting spree in north London in May 2006. He shot Abu Kamara in Upper Street before accidentally shooting Emma Sheridan at Finsbury Park Tube station, as he aimed at a second man. Laidlaw had a string of previous convictions starting at the age of 14. They included property damage, public order offences and 16 counts of theft and possession of knives. He also carried out seven armed street muggings and had been in and out of jail several times. In October 2004 he attacked a black motorist, hurling racist abuse at him. A police report written after Laidlaw was arrested for the attack said he behaved violently in front of officers and was "foaming at the mouth". "In the presence and hearing of the black female gaoler the defendant made racist comments and remarks, stating he was a member of the BNP and that he hated all black people," the document says. He also said he was going to "kill all black people". He was convicted of racially aggravated actual bodily harm and using racist language. February 2007 Robert Cottage Robert Cottage, a BNP member and former council election candidate, pleads guilty to possessing explosives. He denies, however, as does his co-defendant David Jackson, conspiracy to cause an explosion. The jury are unable to agree a verdict. A retrial will take place in July. January 2007 David Enderby David Enderby, a BNP councillor in Redditch, is found guilty of assault on three members of his estranged wife's family. He is fined £100 for each assault and ordered to pay £100 costs. His wife later told the local newspaper that he had a history of domestic violence. January 2007 Mark Bulman Mark Bulman was jailed for five years for setting fire to Swindon's Broad Street mosque. He used a BNP leaflet as a fuse for his petrol bomb. December 2006 Richard Mulhall Richard Mulhall, the BNP's council group leader in Calderdale, was sentenced to do 200 hours of unpaid work on four counts of benefit fraud. Branding him "thoroughly dishonest", Recorder Felicity Davies said he only escaped jail because relevant legislation was not yet in force when he committed the offences. He was also ordered to pay £2,000 costs and to repay £603.18 in jobseekers' allowance. He had already repaid the housing benefit and council tax benefit. A jury had found him guilty in October of falsely claiming a total of £3,002.95 in benefits by concealing the fact that his partner was working. November 2006 Darren Francis BNP member Darren Francis is given a five-year restraining order after being found guilty of harassing Sally Keeble, the MP for Northampton North. September 2006 Robert McGlynn Robert McGlynn, a Swansea BNP activist, is fined £200 plus £200 costs for shouting racist abuse at an Asian woman. He was convicted on evidence from a passer-by. He later loses his appeal against conviction and is ordered to pay a further £140 in costs. July 2006 Allen Boyce The former National Front Remembrance Day parade bugler Allen Boyce, 73, now a BNP supporter, receives a two-year suspended sentence for giving bomb-making instructions to Terry Collins, a BNP member, who was sentenced to five years in 2005 for conducting a racist hate campaign against the Asian community in Eastbourne. May 2006 Angela Clarke A former BNP councillor Angela Clarke is fined £200 for resisting arrest during a fracas. May 2006 Kevin Hughes Kevin Hughes, who acted as election agent for the BNP Redditch councillor David Enderby in May 2006, is sentenced to 30 months in prison for assaulting an Iraqi asylum seeker. The sentence is later reduced to two years on appeal. March 2006 Luke Smith A former BNP Burnley councillor Luke Smith is imprisoned for 11 months for violent disorder, and a further six months for other violent offences. He is also banned from football matches for six years. Smith was expelled from the BNP in 2003 following an assault on a BNP organiser. February 2006 Stephen Bailey Stephen Bailey, a Lincoln BNP activist, is convicted of 35 charges of criminal damage and 19 of arson. He set fire to sheds, litter bins and a car and is believed to have vandalised more than 80 cars by slashing tyres and damaging bodywork. Bailey was arrested after police seized computer equipment and documents from his home. November 2005 Roderick Rowley Roderick Rowley, a former BNP candidate in Coventry, is imprisoned for 15 months after admitting 14 charges of making, distributing or possessing obscene images of children. He is also ordered to register as a sex offender for ten years. May 2005 Karl Hanson Karl Hanson is fined £400 for possessing heroin and crack cocaine. News of his arrest broke a few days before the May 2005 local elections in which he was a BNP candidate in Huddersfield. April 2005 John Cope John Cope, a Cheshunt BNP member and election candidate, is fined £750 and ordered to pay £104 costs for harassing an anti-racist campaigner. March 2005 Terry Collins Terry Collins, a BNP member, is sentenced to five years in prison for a year-long campaign of terror against Asian families in Eastbourne. He claims the BNP "brainwashed" him. Collins, a former Territorial Army soldier, admitted charges of arson, racially aggravated harassment and criminal damage. He also admitted the possession of bullets found in his home and asked for 11 further offences of racially aggravated criminal damage to be taken into account.
No and idiotic answers by Spawnees deflect from the question. The UK is very violent and to blame the BNP is as stupid as blaming the Muslims or Africans amongst us. Gang culture is rife amongst kids and until proper schooling, serious sentencing and role models - apart from useless footballers and pathetic film stars - happens then the UK will become a no go ghetto. No chance then.
As there is no place to lock them all up and a few forces are not arresting people for street disorder anymore!