BRITISH CRIME
- I GUNMEN AND BANDITS.
The British people have been taken aback by the publication of statistics lor 1923, showing that crime, augjnented chiefly by gunmen and bandits, has risen to tne highest point in uritish history. And since the activity ofithe up-to-date criminal was more intense last year it is probable that 1924 topped alt records the total number of cases .reported to the police in 1923 was 110,206, nearly 13,000 more than in!1922.
housebreaking, and all forms of dishonesty, accompanied by violence, are the categories in which crime increased. This is ascribed to the habit acquired since the war of criminals working in gabgs and using automobiles and nrcarnis more freely. The figures. However, are deceptive, as they actually show a decrease in the relative number of criminals if growth of population is taken into account, and in some respects they show surprising improvement in British deportment.
Prosecutions for drunkenness were 81,659 in 1923, as against the average of 189,204 for the last four years before the war. Homicides likewise fell, and crimes savouring of habitual criminality decreased, and commercial dishonesty, however, is described as flourishing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1925, Page 2
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