- Question by: Graham Tope
- Meeting date: 20 February 2008
There was clearly a very considerable crime wave in your first two years, which put the figures up, so that they could remain at the plateau that they are now on! Mr Mayor, you are on record as saying that the British Crime Survey provides, 'A reliable measure of crime trends since it has a consistent methodology and is unaffected by changes in reporting or recording practices which police figures are subject to'. I am sure you have not changed your mind from that statement. I repeat, the last six years has seen no fall at all in the crime...