Latest One Dulwich update

[Rockets]

There have been clear patterns of increases in some types of crime in the area but the stats on that over a longer period of time ( both from a site that @Earl Aelfheah shared and also the numbers I gathered from the Police data site) were dismissed by the usual suspects. Clearly there can be no argument on the stats direct from the Met that are also mirroring those trends I previously noted and shared.

 

[Raeburn]

‘Those trends’?
 

[Earl Aelfheah]

Rockets talking absolute nonsense. Since the filter was introduced, crime in Dulwich has fallen against background trends and in most categories, fallen in absolute terms.

Since before the filter was introduced:

• 'All crimes' have fallen
• Violent crime is down
• Robbery has fallen

Crime against the person (mainly mobile phone theft) has increased everywhere (but has risen less quickly in Dulwich than in London generally).

Overall crime rate on Calton Avenue in London near SE21 7DE is 82% lower than crime rate in London and 24% lower than national overall crime level. Violent crime rate is 85% lower than London average and 57% lower than national average.

He's offered no evidence at all that increases in phone theft are linked to the filter (introduced more than 5 years ago); They're clearly not not, as one can tell from even a cursory street level analysis.

His claims around collisions / pedestrian safety and pollution are false. The data show the exact opposite to what he has stated, road safety has improved and pollution has fallen.

He's deliberately trying to mislead and to sow fear, in pursuit of his pathological, obsessive, grievance. 

I'm bored of having to correct this stuff, but it's potentially harmful, spreading a false sense of fear and the perception of Dulwich and the square specifically as a dangerous area to be avoided. 

Edited September 12 by Earl Aelfheah