The UK numbers are acutally much worse.
The police have long been manipulating the numbers by checking the theft box for burglaries and robberies or simply not reporting crimes.
Several UK ex-pats have described the crime situation in the UK in mags such as
The American Spectator. It is not pretty.
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why would anyone want to INCREASE the rate of crime?
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So the politicians and "experts" among the bureaucrats and policacrats can exert greater and greater control over your freedom and property.