I remember some months ago my car was vandalised and I reported it for insurance reasons.
I knew and accepted that they would not catch anyone but the police kept making calls to make me think they were doing something. Then, most embarrassingly and completely pointlessly there were the calls from 'victim support'.... Understandable if I was an old lady who had been beaten of the head by a thug but I am big enough to cope with the trauma of my car being vandalised. All I would like to see in the vandal lying in the gutter bleeding but the police wont be able to arrange that for me....
Now I know I should report it, I know that it is important for their statistics and they use these stats to allocate resources. But I did not bother to report the two times my milk was stolen. I just let rip my annoyance on the forum to get it off my chest.
I simply could not face those calls from the police and victim support. As if I would cry over spilt milk
So today we hear that 'reported crime' is down....
How much of that is because people cant face the bother of all those calls and 'victim support'......
Thats one way to fiddle the figures and put people off reporting crime I suppose....
