{"id":1771,"date":"2017-12-30T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2017-12-30T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:44:05","slug":"is-shoplifting-increasing-yes-according-to-the-reported-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/is-shoplifting-increasing-yes-according-to-the-reported-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Is shoplifting increasing? Yes &#8211; according to the reported data."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Shoplifting-England-Wales-Northern-Ireland-Jan2013-November2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1772\" src=\"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Shoplifting-England-Wales-Northern-Ireland-Jan2013-November2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Shoplifting-England-Wales-Northern-Ireland-Jan2013-November2017.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Shoplifting-England-Wales-Northern-Ireland-Jan2013-November2017-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a>There were a few stories recently in the media about how Police are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-42492488\">officially not investigating shoplifting of items valued under &pound;200<\/a>. I fully understand the need for a cut-off point in order to focus on crimes that do greater damage. I just don&#8217;t see the need to publicise and legislate for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Discretion ought to be at play here rather than a top-down, one size fits all directive. And there must be other solutions to be explored that could work as well or even better than Police investigations for our shopkeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve lifted the data from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/National_Picture\/\">National Picture page<\/a> from January 2013 (when our data for Northern Ireland starts) to the latest month November 2017 and added a linear trendline. In percentage terms we are clearly going up, with most of the increase since th the introduction of the\u00a0<a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2014\/12\/contents\/enacted\">Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a few stories recently in the media about how Police are now officially not investigating shoplifting of items valued under &pound;200. I fully understand the need for a cut-off point in order to focus on crimes that do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/is-shoplifting-increasing-yes-according-to-the-reported-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}