Chief Constable Judie Spence is, I am delighted to tell you all, about to be the ex-Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire because she has just retired to a rose-tinted future of happiness hand in hand with her eye-wateringly huge pension. On her way out she saw fit to lecture, not the criminal classes but the middle classes, although in what passes for her brain they are one and the same thing:
“Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour,” she says. “People think we should be able to get away with it. They wouldn’t tolerate lawbreaking by somebody else but they do it themselves without thinking.
“It all seems OK until something tragic happens, like their child dies because of a road traffic accident.” [...]
Mrs Spence, 55, [Cor, wish I could have retired with a pension at 55!] says that while anti-social behaviour is usually defined as rowdy youths or vandalism, “for too many it is the antics of drivers who refuse to accept that speed limit signs apply to them.
When the likes of Simon Heffer and Christopher Hitchens tell you that the police, in all their idle stupidity, target the middle classes because they are an easy pinch, perhaps you will believe them because now you have it straight from the cow's horse's mouth!
I couldn't be bothered to do an in depth investigation but a quick Google of crime stats in Cambridge told me this for 2008-2009 per 1,000 head of population, from http://www.upmystreet.com/local/crime-in-cambridge.html:
Cambridge//England Average
Violence against the person: 19.4// 15.0
Sexual offences: 1.2// 0.9
Robbery offences: 2.3// 1.0
Burglary -dwellings: 9.0//4.3
Motor theft: 2.1 2.3
Theft from a moter: 8.5 6.3
Well, goodbye, Ms. Spence, don't think we won't miss you because we won't!
My thanks to the story from The Daily Telegraph
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