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   Jeff Gaines to Colin Bignell   
   Re: London   
   23 Jul 23 11:38:16   
   
   XPost: can.politics, uk.legal, uk.d-i-y   
   XPost: uk.comp.sys.mac   
   From: jgnewsid@outlook.com   
      
   On 23/07/2023 in message <5PCdnXAXS_nGayH5nZ2dnZeNn_Vj4p2d@giganews.com>   
   Colin Bignell wrote:   
      
   >>The article is 13 years old, but I doubt much has changed.   
   >However, that does not look into the reasons why a particular sector of   
   >the population is over-represented compared to the general population. For   
   >that you need to include the drivers of crime, such as poverty, inequality   
   >and high unemployment, in the figures and see how that sector is   
   >represented among that part of the population affected by those.   
   >Statistics that don't include those can and probably do lie.   
      
   Bollocks. You need to look at why a sector of the population feels it is   
   acceptable to steal.   
      
   --   
   Jeff Gaines Dorset UK   
   Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists   
   or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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