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Crime Wave Sweeps Britain Violent Crime May Be Up As Much As 19 Percent Lax Sentencing May Contribute to Increase Fear Is That Guns Will Infiltrate British Society
LONDON (CBS) Despite its reputation as a genteel and pleasant land, a new government report depicts Britain as one of the most violent urban societies in the Western world, a place where a person's chances of being assaulted, burgled or robbed are substantially greater than in the United States.
People outside of the UK are most familiar with the violence of British soccer fans, who recently disrupted the Euro 2000 tournament in Belgium. But CBS News Senior European Correspondent Tom Fenton reports that while violent crime in America has been going down for 20 years, the latest government study shows that it is on the rise in Britain itself.
A person is more likely to be burglarized, almost twice as likely to be robbed, and two-and-a-half times more likely to be assaulted there than in America.
The British Broadcasting Corporation reports that the Home Office's yet-to-be-released figures are expected to show a 19 percent increase in violent crime nationwide from March 1999-March 2000, with robberies in London jumping 38 percent.
Those figures belie police crime statistics, which show lower incidences of violence. Stats released in February, for example, suggested an overall drop of 1 percent in crime nationwide.
But British police statistics are deeply flawed, as only one in four assaults ever gets recorded. The reality is the streets and shopping malls of Britain are a battleground.
In one case getting media coverage in London, an American schoolteacher on a class trip to London was drugged and raped over the weekend. Police have asked the public for help identifying a suspect.
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