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> Central Newcastle, in the north of England, may actually be
> the most dangerous place in the industrialized world. The Home
> Office in Britain reports that "incidents of violence against
> the person,'' which includes common assault, right up to and
> including murder, are the highest there:
I've got to take issue with this as it's simply not true, well,
very deceptive at best.
Central Newcastle is probably actually one of the safest
city centres in the UK, if not Europe. The problem is, the
area the is actually the "City Centre" is tiny and has
maybe 10,000 people living in it, possibly slightly more.
The whole area consists of shopping centres, Offices,
Restaurants, Pubs and clubs. 99% of the people who are
in the City Centre at any one time are not resident there
so if you are showing your crime figures by a rate per
1000 people the figures are going to be knocked out of
whack because the people who are being the victims
don't actually live there.
Beleive me there is no crime problem to any unusual
extent in Newcastle and it's almost certainly safer than
many other places I could mention.
Jonathan Laws
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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