Leeds shooting..

Former Member

Some one said that they think that gun crime is on the rise, i cant remeber who now, but imo i dnt think it is i just think that as we grow older we become more aware(sp) of it going on.

Former Member

Originally posted by molo
let me put it this way.

apparently my town has the worst teenage crime rate in the world.

truth is we have the most recorded teenage crimes, cus there dumb enough to get caught.

i'm sure theres a lot of worse places for it than here, just it doesn't get recorded

figure don't tell you anything.

:yes: new york anyone?

Former Member

"Offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used." This if from the official statistics website. This is the whole of the UK btw.


1994 - 15,985
1995 - 15,730
1996 - 16,177
1997 - 14,424
1998-99 - 15,778
1999-00 - 18,716
2000-01 - 19,457


http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=6025

edited so you can see the statistics better

Former Member

Yes, in absolute number they are going up, but compared to the number of people living within the UK they are relatively stable.

However obviously I will conceed that the population of the UK has not gone up 33% since 1998-01.