From: slider@anashram.com

crime figures having indeed dropped though; with everyone staying at
home, burglaries, for example, have become almost non-existent, as have robberies of banks etc, muggings too & car theft having almost
disappeared along with shoplifting except from supermarkets and food
outlets, many imported illicit drugs are also becoming increasingly
scarce too, their transport around the country becoming difficult if not impossible and thus all rising in price meaning there's a lot less
dealing going on! and with all the pubs, bars and nightclubs closed too there's no more late-night weekend drunks staggering around the streets
for hours after chucking-out time either!

### - Just in: Crime down, anti-social behaviour up

Reports of anti-social behaviour have risen by 59 per cent amid the
Covid-19 lockdown.

Chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Martin Hewitt gave an
update on crime levels during the pandemic today.

He detailed an overall drop of crime in England and Wales in the four
weeks to April 12 of 28 per cent compared to the same period last year.

During the four weeks there has been a 37 per cent reduction in police
recorded burglary, a 27 per cent drop in vehicle crime, serious assault,
and personal robbery; and recorded rape offences have fallen 37 per cent.

Shoplifting has also dropped 54 per cent.

Fears have been raised of an increase in domestic violence amid enforced isolation at home, and police have seen an increase of three per cent in recorded offences year on year.

There has also been a 59 per cent rise in reports of anti-social
behaviour, being attributed to breaches of coronavirus lockdown rules

### - anti-social behaviour; that's peeps openly defying the lockdown
innit, even had some of that here the other nite with the neighbours
throwing some kinda party; peeps shouting and yelling + singing and stuff,
no one saying fuck all about it...

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