If the police massage crime statistics, then why don't they massage the statistics about cybercrime being on an upward trend?

 That link that Timmy Magic posted the other week about crime numbers falling was undertaken by the Crime Survey for England and Wales. This is from their website: "The survey records all types of crimes experienced by people, including those crimes that may not have been reported to the police."

 We were burgled at this address in 1987, literally a few months after moving in.

 Burglaries are awful, glad they didn’t get in… Got burgled FIVE times in 8 months when I lived in Sydney (Australia) for a year - that wasn’t pleasant, but it was almost 45 years ago…

 Spit - the police did give me a crime number ....... I think that counts as being solved. Doesn't it ? 👍😉

 Padds - i' been in the same house since 1987 and have lived in Mitcham since I got married in 1984. It's generally not as bad an area as people make out, though, even i refer to it as a shithole. :-)

 Of course in 1980 when I was burgled the active police response was "we're not going to catch them, here is your crime number for the insurance"

 As always stats don't include many who don't report crime,as we all know sweet FA is done by plod.

 Of course the poiice will massage figures to put themselves in a good light and keep Khan happy. Trust no one!

 Yes any victim of crime or attempted crime is not interested in the statistics but otherwise it seems ridiculous, but a modern trend, to say what one believes matters more than actual facts.

 I doubt if those statistics bring any solace to the Sparty family.

 Yes Keefy, he phones up the Met Police statistics group every week and asks them to delete 75% of the crimes.

 Is that from Khan's book of fibs.

 "London burglaries are significantly lower in 2025 than in 1990; while 1990 marked the start of a long decline, 2025 figures show substantial drops (around 90% in 30 years for many crimes) with recent data showing decreases, though numbers fluctuate, with around 48.7k reported in late 2024/early 2025, reflecting major drops from peak levels in the late 90s/early 2000s" but that is a very boring idea.

 I store my sports equipment all round the house, by chance my baseball bat is near the front door.

 May be pleasanter somewhere else in the long term, eh?

 If i'd have heard him, I'd have jumped him.

 Padds - Mitcham. Someone tried to force our front door about 2 years ago as well.

 Where do you live, Sparty?

 Spartan and some still think our streets are as safe as 35 years ago 😡

 There's some total low lifes around. Bring back the stocks.

 I've got some footage on my ring doorbell of someone trying to false our front door at 4.30am this morning. He was wearing gloves and a crash helmet. I'd only just gone to bed at 4am.

 I had confirmation this morning that my seat has been sold (can't make it) so maybe bodes well for a decent crowd

 Yes, this time is clearer, today's games are being treated as a 'weekend' with just two on SS+. Last season the Newport game was a rearrangement and other rearranged games that day were shown but ours wasn't. The Sky decision making in such cases seems murkier.

 OTD is Richard Jolly IIRC, Mark Beard behind him