PETER HITCHENS: When you visit your local town centre, smell marijuana all around you, and witness endless antisocial behaviour, do you believe the claims that crime is falling? Me neither. And I’m about to tell you the sad truth about these ‘figures’
Large numbers of politicians have proclaimed that crime has been going down for many years now.We, the public, have apparently got it all wrong and are having a moral panic.
Britain’s most politically correct broadcasting station, BBC Radio 4, is currently transmitting a series arguing that we’re all wrong and that crime is, in fact, going down.
Really? Well, so they sa…