There are two obvious answers: The media keeps trying to panic the public, as with swine flu…or the government/police are falsifying the statistics in some way. but this is the British Crime Survey, which is not under the control of either! the article is not of first year essay standard, which is a bit disappointing, … WHY ARE PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME SO AT ODDS WITH OFFICIAL STATISTICS?
Mostly calls for closer cooperation, but is aware of Member States reluctance to pass any power in this area to the Commission. This document is the Commissions contribution to the Stockholm programme….to which we had better find a link!
Joint report by Cabinet Office strategy unit and the Home Office. Better find the original.
Liverpool organised crime never seems to get into the national news. “Masked thugs on a scrambler bike” who fled in an off-roader. Burnt a van and poured petrol over staff cars….
New version of MyDoom virus on the loose…but was it a cyber attack by North Korea, or just another hacker playing with code? Update your virus defintions quickly!
Six former executives at Sky Capital, which used to be listed on AIM, charged with $140 million fraud
A4e, just awarded £100 million contract and employing David Blunkett, fined for staff making false claims of getting people into work…
Publication of UN World Drug report [http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2009/June/world-drug-report-2009-released.html ]
The article starts with a story about which I would like to know more. two Japanese arrested on the Italian-Swiss border with $134 billion in US Government bonds. the bonds were forgeries, and the article rambles off into another strange discussion as to whether the dollar is doomed. But I want to know more about … DOLLAR COMPARED TO SEAN MCGOWAN
From la Reppublica. names, ages, indictments. Allegedly those arrested include the Mafia boss of Trapini, Matteo Messina Denaro. Quite a lot of information, including stuff on the olive oil racket. There’s so little in the British press about organised crime that I’m back to other sources, I’m afraid. anyway, its good for your foreign language … 13 ALLEGED MAFIA MEMBERS ARRESTED IN TRAPINI
