tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588995136414705349.post3118114617099397719..comments2024-03-15T08:05:28.706+00:00Comments on The Sleeping Policeman: A Former Police Officer's Blog: Concerning StatisticsLex Ferendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11111622017331655936noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588995136414705349.post-45687256549815101122011-06-06T17:17:29.348+01:002011-06-06T17:17:29.348+01:00@Broken Britain - I deliberately did not put a fig...@Broken Britain - I deliberately did not put a figure forwards as to how many people in receipt of incapacity benefit may be fraudulently claiming but I am certain it is more than 1%. Many people who claim probably think they are justified in doing so.<br />The figures I have worked on all come from the Office of National Statistics. I have based them on the following. <br /><br />UK population of 61 million made up of the following. Figures are to nearest million.<br /><br />31 million people actually work<br />12 million are children under 16<br />8 million are economically inactive (this includes housewives/husbands, students, early retirees and almost 3 million people on Incapacity Benefit)<br />2 million are unemployed<br />8 million are over 65<br /><br />So we have an active working population of 31 million and almost 3 million on Incapacity Benefit. Almost one in ten.<br /><br />During the 1980's there were around 700K people on IB and some academics believe that this is about the correct figure for the number of people in the country of working age who are really unable to do any sort of work.<br /><br />I did a quick search on the internet and the studies I saw put the most optimistic fraud figure at 7% and the worst at 73%.<br /><br />LexLex Ferendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11111622017331655936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588995136414705349.post-57549926483247044062011-06-06T11:03:18.390+01:002011-06-06T11:03:18.390+01:00Out of interest, where do you get the incapacity f...Out of interest, where do you get the incapacity figures from? The DWP says that the estimated fraud rate for Incapacity Benefit is about 1%. I'm more inclined to believe numbers from tables in long boring civil-service-produced documents than headline numbers from tabloids that make money by outraging middle-class people like us.Broken Britonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588995136414705349.post-32639144194671246622011-06-05T17:06:06.113+01:002011-06-05T17:06:06.113+01:00A sensitive subject which in our politically corre...A sensitive subject which in our politically correct times cannot be debated openly without someone shouting racist.<br />It would be possible for the police to produce figures detailing the race/age/sex etc of all offenders at the push of a button relating to all crimes. But they wont. Remember in the 90s when the Met Police commissioner said "a large percentage of street robbers were young black males"?.Rookie mistake that was- telling the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5588995136414705349.post-53451181610848370162011-06-05T15:27:26.990+01:002011-06-05T15:27:26.990+01:00Culture is indeed a strange shaper, is it not, Lex...Culture is indeed a strange shaper, is it not, Lex? Concerning the rapists, I recall my first week at a busy London station (Deptford aka "Dirty Deptford", "Fort Apache, SE8" etc etc). A young woman of Carib origin came in and rattled off several sentences in patois so strong that, because of my greenness, my ears weren't attuned to it. The Sgt advised me that she was saying, `me man beat me then he sex me` - essentially a rape allegation of sorts. She was interviewed by a female officer and flatly refused to either be examined or to make a complaint. What she expected, as a recently arrived resident in the UK, was the sort of help she would get from her former local police force in Jamaica, that being the local cops to get hold of the boyfriend, whisper advice in his shell like and then beat seven shades of excrement out of him to drive home the message. She went on to explain that in domestic disputes the same sort of treatment was metered out, only to both parties. <br /><br />Naturally, London's finest were not going to do that and she left the station disgusted at our indifference to her pleas for justice.Hogdayafternoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188146617570775741noreply@blogger.com