Are crime levels in Telford really falling ??

Now this week there was the startling revelation that crime levels in Telford has decreased, what then followed was the customery "mutal back patting" by the police authorities and the council as to how effective they both were and how they had contributed to how wonderful Telford now was.

However, I question, have crime levels really fallen or is it just that people have stopped reporting crime, if my personal experience and that of others I have spoken to is anything to go by it is the later. When reporting "matters of concern" shall we say, twice this year, we have been met with the truely apathetic response "What do you expect US to  do about it" a response experienced by many others. With that being the case what appears to be falling crime levels, as a result of the Police's shocking response to the publics calls, is actually the public stopping reporting crime.

We then had the police announcement which amounted to thinly disguised criticism of public apathy when it came to local PACT meetings which were stopped due to lack of public interest!!! A case of the kettle calling the pot black I think. They just don't get it do they, they respond to our calls in a truely apathetic manner and when the public responded in the same way to what became rather pointless PACT meetings , (because we all knew what their actual response would be) they then critiscise the public!!

Point out to them their own inaction/disinterest via social media like twitter which they were so keen to use to promote their supposed wonderfulness, they suddenly disappear, they only what to get involved as long as it is something deemed positive about them, if not they suddenly do not want to know.

Falling crime levels in Telford, don't think so!!