Originally Posted by
shytalk
Yes you sent me one of her poems a while ago. There are a lot of artistic/creative/musical people around here. I often wonder if it is because there is still prohibition here, lack of booze might be the reason.
People from the Uk think I'm kidding when I tell them that 75% of this state is dry. But it is what the people want, they voted for it to be that way. The upside is that it is a relatively crime free area.
Latest crime figures published04:00, Oct 18 2007
Latest crime figures for England and Wales will be published by the Government.
The last batch of Home Office data, published three months ago, revealed a rise in night-time crime in the wake of 24-hour licensing.
There were 940,522 violent crimes, cases of disorder and criminal damage committed from 6pm to 6am in the year after the controversial alcohol reforms, up 7,000 on the previous 12 months.
Between 3am and 6am there was a 22% leap in alcohol-fuelled crime year-on-year, although averages across the whole day showed a slight dip.
And separate figures from the British Crime Survey (BCS) showed there were 1,087,000 violent incidents in 2006-07 where the victim believed their attacker had been drinking.
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The last batch of BCS data also showed violent crime rose by 5% last year, although officials said the figure was "not statistically significant".
The number of robberies recorded by police in England and Wales also rose 3% to 101,370 in the previous set of figures - the highest level for three years.
Causing death by dangerous driving or while under the influence of drink or drugs reached its highest level for 30 years, with 462 cases in the year, up 7%.
Recorded crime figures showed a 9% rise in drugs offences to 194,300.
The total number of recorded crimes fell by 2% to 5.4 million.
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