With all the news coverage in recent weeks the latest British Crime survey is a timely reminder that our risk of being a victim of crime has fallen from 24 to 22%, the lowest level recorded since the survey began in 1981.

Unfortunately, 65% of people said they thought rates had gone up nationally. But the same proportion again thought crime had fallen locally.

The overall picture from the survey was that crime was down 10% to 10.1 million crimes.

Still if the new is good, then let us find something bad, The Guardian for instance speculates crime rates expected to soar as economic difficulties deepen, is it any surprise that people think crime has gone up.

Source: BBC.