At 1:19 PM -0700 7/28/04, Guy Smith wrote:
> Aside from the misalignment with police reporting systems, has anyone
>seen any evidence that the BCS survey responses are not accurate, and if
>so, what the suspected source causing the bias?
I would say the following statement from the original newspaper article, if
true, is pretty indicative:
> The shadow home secretary, David Davis, said the BCS did not record
>"various categories of violent crime", including murder and rape, retail
>crime, drug-taking, or offences in which the victims were aged below 16.
I myself am stunned that it would even be possible for an MP make a
plausible claim that a government's general crime survey did not include
murder and rape.
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