Rates of mobile phone theft, domestic burglary, vehicle theft, and murder have all fallen – despite perceptions that all have risen, a new study has found

New research on public perception of crime found the public guessed foreign nationals make up twice the number of sexual offenders than official statistics show (30 per cent compared to 15 per cent). They also estimated foreign nationals make up 25 per cent of the prison population, when in reality they make up just 15 per cent.

Rates of mobile phone theft, domestic burglary, vehicle theft, and murder have all fallen, despite perceptions that all have risen, the study found. In fact, researchers at King’s College London found, the general public were wrong about crime on nearly every measure

Based on two surveys of 1,797 and 2,164 UK adults, the research suggested Reform UK supporters stand out as consistently the most wrong

Color me surprised!

  • Denjin@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    So with normally working laws percentage of crimes committed by foreigners should be noticeably lower.

    We already have mechanisms to prevent those convicted of crimes from being allowed to remain in the country. How do you propose preventing those who might commit a crime in the future from entering the country? It’s impossible.

    • username_1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16·
      6 days ago

      It is possible. It is quite trivial, actually. Just intellect/erudition test. Clever people tend to be less criminally active. Especially primitive crime-wise like robberies, sex-related crimes, etc. I’m sure an a year or so that test might be tuned to be very effective and absolutely not restrictive.

      • Denjin@feddit.ukEnglish
        51·
        6 days ago

        Clever people tend to be less criminally active.

        So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.

        I’m not even going to engage with the ridiculousness of your statement only to say that you must be a career criminal…

        • username_1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          13·
          6 days ago

          So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.

          I never claimed anything like that. I said that in most countries immigration laws are not good enough.