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Monday, 11 April 2011

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Patrick Brown

I brought this piece up on the Guardian CiF "What do you want to talk about" thread last week, and some interesting conclusions were drawn.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/06/you-tell-us?commentpage=4#comment-10269988

It turns out the figures released to Rangers Media are for "incidents", i.e. reports to the police, whereas the figures previously released to the public were for "offences", i.e. incidents followed up by the police and treated as crimes.

So on Old Firm Sundays there's a 37% increase in reported incidents of domestic violence, and a 96.6% rise in the police following up these incidents, and on Old Firm Saturdays there's a 14% fall in reported incidents, and a 138.8% rise in the police following incidents up.

What the stats really only show is that the police take domestic violence much more seriously when there's an Old Firm game on than when there isn't.

Alf

From a little googling:

http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow/Findlay-attacks-Old-Firm-abuse.6737111.jp

"Statistics show a spike in domestic violence during Old Firm games and the government, police and the clubs hope FBOs can be used to crack down on such incidents."

http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/index.asp?locID=1580&docID=8361

"Domestic abuse offenders continued to be targeted prior to the Old Firm game on Sunday 2 January 2011. On average, since May 2009, the number of domestic abuse calls on match days has dropped by more that 30 per cent."

http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/index.asp?docID=7584

"More than 800 domestic abuse offenders were targeted prior to the Old Firm game on 3 January 2010. On average, over the past five Old Firm games, domestic abuse has fallen by 23 per cent. Attempted murder, serious assault and breach of the peace have also fallen."

Trevor

Some top policewoman stated that a woman is assaulted at least 35 times before calling the police, I saw an article refuting this somewhere but does anyone else remember where it was?

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