Figures released this week minimise crime figures by purporting to show that 7,951 offenders committed a total of 16,415 crimes between April 2006 and March 2007, whilst being supervised by the Probation Service and other agencies.Firstly the figures for KNOWN repeat offending are laughably minute. With maybe 100,000 released from prison in any given year, it is detection levels which then become the issue.
Let us factor in that at least 95% of crime goes either undetected or unreported.
Make it half a million and I would still struggle to believe this piece of calculated dishonesty.
What the figures manifestly fail to do of course, is to record all those who were undersentenced and had no connection with the Probation Service as well as those who were put under their supervision for just 6 months, a period which then expired within the year described.
