The violent crime legacy

As one can see the second half of the 1990s saw the violent crime rate consistently drop. The increase since 1999 speaks for itself, and the release of the 2008 crime stats show that it continued throught 2008.

From Dec 1999 to Dec 2008, the number of recorded violent crimes went up 51%, and the rate per 10,000 residents went up 35%.

And before you try and claim it is just an increase in non reported domestic violence, grievous assaults increased 105% or adjusting for population by 85%. And those assaults are very very hard to go unreported as they include stabbings etc.

Let us hope that the next nine years do not see another 35% increase in recorded violent crime rates.