Remember when the Police were telling anyone who would listen that the cuts imposed on them would cause crime to rise and were dismissed as 'scaremongering' by the Home Secretary?
Well guess who was right? (Spoiler alert- it wasn't the Home Secretary)
The latest crime figures show rises pretty much across the board. Homicides, which can't really be hidden in the figures, has shown an 11% rise in the year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...medium=twitter
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Violent crime increased 27 per cent last year to 939,518 recorded offences in England and Wales, official figures show.
There was an overall seven per cent increase in police recorded crime in 2015 compared with the previous year, with 4.4 million offences.
The year saw 573 murders - an increase of 11 per cent - after the previous set of quarterly data revealed an unexplained spike in homicides in London and the south east.
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