World at 8 Friday 8 March 2013

Описание: The Absurdity of Our Police and Media

"As we all know more officers on the beat doesn't actually have a massive impact on crime rates in [an] area"

"If You Want to Weep for Your Children, Start Here" a weblog referring to a BBC report "Guerilla knitting in Leicester 'to reduce crime fear'".
The weblog, by an American, quotes the BBC report where a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University says "Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area of Leicester." And "As we all know more officers on the beat doesn't actually have a massive impact on crime rates in [an] area."

The Weblog added "What we really 'all know' via empirical testing in places like New York City is that the presence of more police officers on the streets, on foot, sent personal crime levels plummeting."

Highlights of the News Today Friday March 8th 2013

• Falkland Islanders Defy Argentina With Sunday Referundum
• The Absurdity of Our Police and Media
• More Than 20% of Everyone's Income Tax Bill Goes Straight to Benefits
• The Guardian Reveals the Contempt for Democracy at the Heart of Human Rights
• Danish Headmaster In Court For Sex Offenses
• Copenhagen - Palestinian Girl Beaten For Having Danish Boyfriend
• Belgium: Man Sentenced For Tearing Koran In Front Of Muslims
• Apologies for Nick Griffin in the Belly of the Beast
• It Is Not A Good Time To Be Hindu In Bangladesh
• Osama's Son-in-Law New York Court
• Armenian Genocide to be included in Australian school curriculum
• Thought for the Day -- Sexism, Racism and Ageism in the Workplace
• And Finally - World's Strangest Towns - Longyearbyen