When will the media cotton on that the exploding crime is false allegations?
Since "sex offences" need no evidence at all for convictions, police love them (easy results) and "victims" adore them - compensation cash, sympathy, revenge, attention, blame for failure - who wouldn't want to be a "victim"?

Wake up media. Wake up.

And a tiny paragraph in The Sun (about a tenth of the size of the above PANIC headline) reveals Samantha Merry is facing jail (a week?) after police spent 235 hours investigating her false claim of rape which she eventually admitted. Her "victim" spent four months in hell. Chelmsford... but there are dozens of these a week - only a few end up admitting lies.

This is the idea of the "sex offenders register" is it not? To keep widening the scope of sex offences until it includes the majority.

10% more sex offences last year ?

I put it down to Viagra !

Chris Retro wrote:
This is the idea of the "sex offenders register" is it not? To keep widening the scope of sex offences until it includes the majority.


it is akin to making people wear stars denoting what their position is-'sex offendor' 'Jew' Gypsy''homosexual' and so on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badges

'sex offendor' registers are a media invention and have not a single thing to do with protecting anyone.

In fact they do more harm as my friend who was a local copper in NSW who was in charge of one used to say.

He left because he was disgusted with having to sit in an office and run this pointless exercise than not even his bosses could explain what the use of it was.

Indeed-his bosses openly admitted tthe whole pointless exercise was a pain in the neck and a waste of resourses but politicians demanded it.

Hey let's have an Armed Robbers' Register. Anyone on it is not allowed to live near a Western Union outlet, is prohibited from having a bank account and must notify police whenever they use money.

And how about a Car Thieves' Register? Their coat hanger-owning days are over, the rotten scoundrels. They are banned from being on a street where there are cars parked.

But seriously, if the state fiddles the laws, moves the legal goalposts and creates more and more non-harmful, pettifogging offences, so that more men can be convicted on less and less evidence (and indeed, no evidence) then yes, the statistics will rise.

The equivalent would be to increase the number of animals covered by the dangerous dogs designation by including all four-legged beasts with fur. The criterion for an animal becoming a "dangerous dog" is that someone (anyone) says it is, with no picture or video or independent witnessing and sometimes many years after the sighting. Absurd, but directly analogous to the sexual offences situation.

Of course, the correct approach is to concentrate on high-quality, objective investigation of alleged crimes, with a view to obtaining a coherent body of evidence to present in prosecution. This would focus resources on the most serious occurences and result in sustainable and worthwhile convictions. But that's more difficult than just fiddling the figures.

Totally true.

The 10% figure is worse than it seems.

Crime FELL nearly 10% for most other crimes.

That means in relation to other crimes SEX OFFENCES in one year have seen a 20% increase.

This is why :

1. The law has been changed so that if someone makes an allegation you will be arrested.

2. No evidence is needed to take these cases to court - so the clear up rate is 100% for allegations with no evidence unlike any other crime.

3. The Police rely on their "Paedohysteria" headlines to influence juries ( no smoke without fire ) to believe every Priest - teacher - nursey worker is kinky and weird and therefore is likely to be a paedo. In addition celebs are fair game because they have a hedonistic lifestyle where anything goes.

4. More money is made in cases where there is no evidence except the allegation because then it becomes a battle of "Character". The more "Victims" who can come forward ( and thus claim compensation means that the whole thing can turn into a "Salem Trial" within weeks of one small allegation.

This is modern UK - the Police are the evil enemy of the people. They cover up murders ( Kelly - De Menezes - Tomlinson ) and chase celebs ( JK - Gazza - Dave Jones - other TV and Sport personalties ) and victimise teachers- Priests - and others. Rather than chasing criminals - because most Police either have a criminal record themselves or have members of their family with one.

Ironically the worst criminals in Pentonville that I met had a bizarre career aspirations - most of the real crims wanted to be lawyers or Policemen - I kid you not. Totally ridiculous. I had to bite my tongue when told these things - and I can only assume it is because they feel comfortable in a system they know.

SJB wrote:
Hey let's have an Armed Robbers' Register. Anyone on it is not allowed to live near a Western Union outlet, is prohibited from having a bank account and must notify police whenever they use money.

And how about a Car Thieves' Register? Their coat hanger-owning days are over, the rotten scoundrels. They are banned from being on a street where there are cars parked.

But seriously, if the state fiddles the laws, moves the legal goalposts and creates more and more non-harmful, pettifogging offences, so that more men can be convicted on less and less evidence (and indeed, no evidence) then yes, the statistics will rise.

The equivalent would be to increase the number of animals covered by the dangerous dogs designation by including all four-legged beasts with fur. The criterion for an animal becoming a "dangerous dog" is that someone (anyone) says it is, with no picture or video or independent witnessing and sometimes many years after the sighting. Absurd, but directly analogous to the sexual offences situation.

Of course, the correct approach is to concentrate on high-quality, objective investigation of alleged crimes, with a view to obtaining a coherent body of evidence to present in prosecution. This would focus resources on the most serious occurences and result in sustainable and worthwhile convictions. But that's more difficult than just fiddling the figures.

well put!