From one extreme to another

Police “services” in England and Wales have been fiddling crime figures downwards for ages by failing to record all sorts of offences. So it comes as no surprise to find that they have gone to the other extreme in response to a Home Office crack down on bogus statistics. As a result of the plod mentality, things like “man hit by flying biscuit” are now being logged as violent crimes and police statistics remain works of fiction.