Another day, another rant by lefty loudmouth James O’Brien. Today LBC’s eviscerator-in-chief has decided to take issue with Labour’s decision to publish migrant crime league tables, fuming that ‘I don’t know what else this is designed to do but to feed hatred’ before demanding: ‘Are they going to publish the fact that the massive majority of crimes in this country are committed by non-foreigners?’ Talk about missing the point…
Home Office Yvette Cooper has instructed government officials to publish the first detailed breakdown of offences committed by foreign criminals in the UK while they await deportation. The upcoming data dump will help shed light on some of the worst foreign offenders for crimes like violence, robbery and drug dealing – and the figures will reveal which nationalities are overrepresented in the crime stats. Digging by the Ministry of Justice has suggested that Afghans and Eritreans were over 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens and as James Heale wrote this morning, enhanced data could help the Home Office introduce enhanced visa screening processes and guide the department’s returns policy. Not that any of this is satisfactory to O’Brien, however…
Embarking on one of his characteristically whinging monologues, O’Brien raged:
Why is the Labour government determined to publish far more information about the nationalities of criminals than ever before? So if we discover that Poles commit more crimes than, I don’t know, Spaniards, are we supposed to treat Poles and Spaniards differently? What am I supposed to do with this information?
It’s not ethnicity, it’s nationality. So, I mean, are they going to publish the fact that the massive, massive, massive majority of crimes committed in this country are committed by non-foreigners, just in terms of simple statistics? That’s not an opinion, it’s counting. Are we going to start having conversations about the white middle class and the white working class and their peculiar proclivity for certain kinds of crimes?
But as some attentive Twitter users have pointed out, LBC’s in-house lefty appears not to be aware of the concept of ‘per capita’ – which, more than ‘simple statistics’, demonstrates which nationalities are more likely to commit certain crimes than others. Talk about cherry-picking the facts to fit your narrative, eh?
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