Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Nottingham is the most dangerous city in England and Wales with a crime rate four times greater than the safest towns such as Southend and Poole, according to a study released on Tuesday.

According to the public services think tank Reform, Nottingham had 115 crimes per 1,000 people in 2005 compared to just 30 in Southend, Essex and 32 in Poole, Dorset. Nottingham also had a far higher crime level than areas of similar size such as Wolverhampton (49 crimes per 1,000 people) and Reading (43 per 1000).

Reform said its findings were based on a comparison of seven types of offences - murder, robbery, rape, burglary, vehicle crime, gun crime and assault - in urban areas with populations over 100,000.

The results drew criticism from a Nottingham anti-crime body which called the study "pseudo research and misleading reporting" and said crime was falling in virtually every category. "Once again we see sloppy, error-riddled London-based research and reporting stereotyping our city," said Graham Allen, chair of One Nottingham -- a partnership which encompasses the police, the local council and probation services.

The Reform study called for local police to be made more accountable, saying "dramatic" differences in urban crime levels were often masked by official national figures, which have shown the overall number of offences falling in the last decade. "The government's key message that crime has been falling masks a huge variation between the safest and most dangerous urban areas," said Blair Gibbs, the report's co-author.

Nottingham has seen a spate of gun crime in recent years, blamed mainly on drugs, including the high-profile shooting of female police officer Rachael Bown in February and the fatal gunning down of Danielle Beccan, 14, in October 2004.

Reform argued putting pressure on local forces by highlighting their performances at city levels, rather than force-wide, and in categories easily understood by the public, would lead to improvements and help cut crime. "The publication of better information is a key means to improve the performance of public services," said Andrew Haldenby, the Director of Reform. "For services such as policing, where choice does not apply, it allows local communities to compare the performance of different police units and to demand better performance.

Last week a report by the Audit Commission said more should be done to tackle anti-social behaviour in local neighbourhoods as it had greater impact on how safe people felt than actual crime figures.

Reform's study said Nottingham had the highest rate of murder and vehicle crime. Manchester had the highest robbery rate and Bradford the most gun crimes per 10,000 people.



I'm 50/50 with this one, i've lived in nottingham all my life and seen the worst side of it and the good!

Try bristol's area where my brother lives..

When i go down there, i can actually HEAR the shotguns

the worst area in nottz is St Ann's just the name gives me the creeps!

this bad ?

I hear Glascow has always been bad, i was forbidden from going :'(

Glasgow gets a bad name from the minority!


I'm passing thru Nottingham next month, hope my megabus doesn't get overthrown by bandits.

you will just see the decay of some areas, proper ghettos!

Nottingham Eh?

Watch out, this dodgy stoner lives there....

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=107

Where's Robin Hood when you need him?

having sex with his princess ;D

Cheeky bastard. I have started a one man revolution against the crime scene in Nottingham. And besides, that report makes it out to be worse than it is. Its certain areas that bring the rest of the area down. St Anns as someone touched on. Radford, The Meadows, Hyson Green.

When Dave Wyndorf recovers and Monster Magnet return there i'll come down and join the Revolution :smoking: ;)

Bah, i've lived in Nottingham for 16 years and i've never even been mugged before.? During freshers week at uni I was told by a rep "never wear your freshers wristband out in town, because you will be shot at".? Total bullshit, though I guess he was joking.  Most of the guncrime here is between crack dealers so as long as you're not a crack dealer you should be okay.

I love how the really dodgy areas all have the sweetest, prittiest names (the meadows, st annes, forest fields, etc..).? So misleading.? Still, the Meadows ain't all it's cracked up to be, though Forest Fields and St Annes definately are.


That made me laugh dude.? Don't worry though, Aaron will save you! :hihi:

If I see the joint symbol in the night sky I'll know it'll all be ok!

Fuck yeah! Bluntman!  :smoking:

Students wreck towns!!!! FACT!!!

...nothing wrong with glasgow...ive never witnessed any crime other than a few fights and shoplifting in 20 years...and there are plenty measures going on to reduce crime especially at night...

ive never been to nottingham but who cares about surveys, these surveys are usually biased one way or another...perceptions and paranoia

Oh shut that pie-hole of urs, i've never heard anything quite so daft

You shut up, i've been in that area of bristol, also ALL my family lives there and has for a few generations since they czme from warwickshire and lincolnshire, so just shut that big gob of yours .
I'm not even surprised you have gallagher in your profile, you are probably alike in real life too !

So just shut the fuck up unless you have something interesting to say.

How do women cope with you, all you do is nag nag nag. have your periods darling ?

seems sad but we all seem to be gloryfing are towns bad areas! anyway when i hit my later years i move down 2 the coast.

told you that all us lot from Essex are lovers not fighters!!!!!


 :hihi:

we did the saying come from that essex girls are well easy?  ???