Darker Night, More Crime?

[Chorlton]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsi...000/7668749.stm

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[james.wilson]

good point, it probably will will increase crime.

[hpotter]

Before they changed licencing hours a greater proportion of residential break-ins were at the 3-4pm mark (even in winter it's not dark), when BB had Dutch courage & mum had gone to collect the kids from school. Point being BB knew no one at home.

There is more residential burglary Oct - Dec not because the nights are darker, but because the GP want bargains (gift wrapped?) this time of year and BB knows where to find them.

With the street lights turned off, I reckon many will fear to venture out, so homes occupied. Maybe less residential burglary?

Of course muggings & knife crime will increase....

IMO anyway.

[A-G]

I'm with hpotter.

I think anti-social behaviour will soar in areas where street lighting is cut ...... but I don't see any link to burglaries.

However........ the perceived higher risk is likely to make householders feel more vulnerable, so I would expect an increase in alarm sales, and more opportunity to sell alarms in such areas.

[Guest anguscanplay]

work it out - I have 3 times as many service visits to do in October/ November than I do in May/ June

[galaxyclass]

Before they changed licencing hours a greater proportion of residential break-ins were at the 3-4pm mark (even in winter it's not dark), when BB had Dutch courage & mum had gone to collect the kids from school. Point being BB knew no one at home.

There is more residential burglary Oct - Dec not because the nights are darker, but because the GP want bargains (gift wrapped?) this time of year and BB knows where to find them.

With the street lights turned off, I reckon many will fear to venture out, so homes occupied. Maybe less residential burglary?

Of course muggings & knife crime will increase....

IMO anyway.

agreed.

[A-G]

work it out - I have 3 times as many service visits to do in October/ November than I do in May/ June

You've not fitted many alarms in May cos. you've been on holiday?

.... or you service them in November but forget to do the half year service in May?

..... or you have a backlog from September?

Am I getting close?

[Guest anguscanplay]

You've not fitted many alarms in May cos. you've been on holiday?

.... or you service them in November but forget to do the half year service in May?

..... or you have a backlog from September?

Am I getting close?

to getting a slap - yeah

LOL

[reddevil]

Think the security market is flooded already,the work is harder to come by as there is greater competition for the customers

[Chorlton]

As people are prepared/demand to pay less because of the relative price of other goods then quality must drop because the average installer must do more work to make the same money in.

But reference the topic of will dark nights = more crime , we may see more reports of it onthe news just like the story of today where a mans car got nicked and "he" reckons if the streetlight it was under had been on it wouldn't. Wither he is right or wrong don't matter it's what other peeps thing and then do as a result that does.

I'm thinking the great British public will get into the fear mode the powers that be like them to adopt and pay for piece of mind like CCTV, intruder systems and security lights, car alarms, trackers etc etc.

C.