Is the British Crime Survey of any use at all?

The British Crime Survey is a survey of people’s views. It is not related to actual crime figures and is based on people’s perceptions of crime. It is easy to manipulate. People may believe that violent crime is too high in our society but the survey asks if people feel that it has got worse or better. They may feel that it has not got worse recently even though they may believe the level of violent crime is far too high!!! The British Crime Survey is a questionnaire of 40,000 households, and is unrelated to actual recorded crime figures. How can this survey be recognised as the most accurate way of recording crime levels!! It is a joke! The best way is to count the actual violent crimes that take place. Nothing is more accurate that that! The Conservatives are exposing the under reporting of violent crime by New Labour. I suspect strongly that if the view of the survey was that violent crime had gone up or there was a decrease in actual violent crime then this government would go back to the official figures! I don’t understand the point of the British Crime Survey anyway! It is not factual, simply people’s perceptions. On this basis crime will go down on nice sunny days or when England win a football game! Crime will go up when people are feeling down! I suspect that it is a political attempt to mislead people by distracting them from the actual crime figures!

[Via http://itsmyview.me.uk]